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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dc660d7 | I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a3b000b | The problem is that I'm Josef Weber's friend. but Reiner Hartmann is my enemy. So what do I do, now that they are the same man? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ee983ea | When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own.No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dfb033b | Stars are like people,.. just because they appear to emerge from the same point doesn't mean that they do. This is an illusion of perspective created by distance. Not all families manage to hold it together,..Everyone moves in different directions. That we all emerge from the same point is a misconception; to travel in different directions is the very nature of every being and every existing thing. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5daa486 | Once again, I don't quite know where I'm headed, Steph. It seems that every few years I'm shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can;t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security. like so many people do. And I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I;m.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4cec884 | To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't | modesty | Cecelia Ahern | |
| f4b5854 | And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room. It was practically our family pet. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ec8b3b7 | This story is one for which some people will have to suspend their belief. If it wasn't me and this wasn't happening to me, I would be one of those people. Many won't struggle to believe it, though, for their minds have been opened; unlocked by whatever kind of key causes people to believe. Those people are either born that way or, as babies, when their minds are like little buds, they are nurtured until their petals slowly open and prepare.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 19597da | Nobody else around me seems to be looking around and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I'm the only person who is confused and concerned about the choices I've made and where I'm headed? Everywhere I look, I see people just getting on with it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 86b92e3 | People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| cb8d17a | We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f6ba2ab | Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a9bb993 | If you want to do something, you have to do it now. If you want to say something, you have to say it now. And more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e8e66fb | There's the person who you think you should be and there's the person who you really are. I've lost sense of both. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b8437ec | Ruby: You can put whatever name you like on it but at the end of the day a missed opportunity is a missed opportunity. But don't worry; I think there's a lesson to be learned in all this. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 899a438 | That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things | who-i-am | Cecelia Ahern | |
| db1edd1 | I find that, usually, answers present themselves. They are not hidden under rocks or camouflaged among trees. Answers are right there, in front of our eyes. But if you haven't cause to look, then of course you will probably never find them. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| dc2c3d2 | In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings. First step is to identify the shit. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 9430d8d | The next best thing never last for too long | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 67a6f27 | People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| abcaafd | No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud. | Chris Gardner | ||
| a53423f | But not all Jews were victims- look at Chairman Rumkowski, who sat safe with his new wife in his cushy home making lists, with the blood of my family on his hands. And not all Germans were murderers. Look at Herr Fassbinder, who had saved so many children on the night that children were taken away. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8b8c68b | How come love sounds so violent? You fall head over heels. You're struck by Cupid's arrow. You take the risk of having your heart broken. From an outside perspective, it sounds impossibly painful, not worth the trouble. And yet we do it every day. We keep coming back for more. Why? If it weren't so perilous, maybe we wouldn't crave it so much. Maybe it has to be brutal, in order to work. People come in so many shapes and sizes that it takes.. | love love-quote relationship | Jodi Picoult | |
| ef4bc84 | Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need? | love | Jodi Picoult | |
| efcf7ca | He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken, every time. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 35e1e32 | Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. | Charles Frazier | ||
| c1b0843 | My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 547bad7 | Ye can at least promise me the victory," he said, but his voice held the whisper of a question. "Yes," I said, and touched his face. I sounded choked, and my vision blurred. "Yes, I can promise that. This time." No mention made of what that promise spared, of the things I could not guarantee. Not life, not safety. Not home, nor family; not law nor legacy. Just the one thing--or maybe two. "The victory," I said. "And that I will be with you .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0c5a9ae | I've said often enough, and the good Lord kens weel enough that boys were meant to be smacked, or he'd not ha' filled 'em sae full o' the de'il. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b5540db | Does it ever stop, Claire? The wanting? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 17d7ba1 | There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of drains. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0897140 | Once I told him I thought beating your son was a most uncivilized method of getting your own way. He said I'd about as much sense as the post I was standing next to, if as much. He said respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior, and until I learned that, I'd better get used to looking at my toes while one of my barbaric elders thrashed my arse off. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 3fa35bb | Don't cry, Sassenach," he said, so softly I could barely hear him." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 3c29d21 | Oh. It's Fraser. James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b2defb2 | Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats. The reality waled at my side. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| bbb3fac | I didna say I wanted an apology, did I? If I recall aright, what I said was 'Bite me again. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 493a4eb | Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6998125 | he found that after prolonged contact with Claire and her opinions, he had much less trust in physicians that heretofore - and he hadn't had much to begin with. | claire-fraser humor lord-john-grey | Diana Gabaldon | |
| cbf4e08 | He thought of such places in a way that had no words, only recognizing one when he came to it. He might have called it holy, save that the feel of such a place had nothing to do with church or saint. It was simply a place he belonged to be, and that was sufficient. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 91f6c9e | I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. And if he was a bit battered by circumstance, that merely added to his charm. "You're a very hard person to kill, I think," I said. "That's a great comfort to me." | death jamie | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 83869b6 | The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience? | evil law | Diana Gabaldon | |
| d99d1f4 | I am thinking that you're verra beautiful, Sassenach," he said softly. "Maybe if one has a taste for gooseflesh on a large scale," I said tartly, stepping out of the tub and reaching for the cup. He grinned suddenly at me, teeth flashing white in the dimness of the cellar. "Oh, aye," he said. "Well, you're speaking to the only man in Scotland who has a terrible cockstand at sight of a plucked chicken." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 396e1ec | That only by forgiveness could she forget--and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 837afb1 | Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop. The line from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland drifted through my mind, and I smiled. Good advice, I supposed - but only if you happened to know where the beginning was, and I didn't quite. | Diana Gabaldon |