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| 304fe18 | Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. | women | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| fa307b9 | But I'm a wanted fugitive, like Cinder." Thorne continued. "They do realise I'm missing, don't they?" "Maybe they're grateful," Cinder muttered." | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 7778f39 | What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wonderin.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| f7cca1a | True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring -- once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome... except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners... | Stephen King | ||
| f0aa3da | Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly." -- | the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| bc35f7b | And everyone saw me. Tobias saw me. I hear footsteps. Tobias marches toward me and wrenches me to my feet. "What the hell was that, Stiff?" "I..." My breath comes in a hiccup. "I didn't-" "Get yourself together! This is pathetic." Something within me snaps. My tears stop. Heat races through my body, driving the weakness out of me, and I smack him so hard my knuckles burn with the impact. He stares at me, one side of his face bright with blu.. | love | Veronica Roth | |
| eb95d7c | I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2bdff6a | Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way. | humor star-trek tv-reference | Holly Black | |
| ca64020 | The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7c0fba4 | Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being | empathy language | Trevor Noah | |
| 9683ce6 | The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c2482ec | Ew. Someone put the dog out, "Rosalie murmured wrinkling her nose. Have you herd this one, Psycho? how do a blond's brain cells die?" She didn't say anything. Well?" I asked."Do you know the punch line or not?" She looked pointedly at the TV and ignored me. Has she heard it?" I asked Edward. No." He answered. Awesome. So you'll enjoy this, bloodsucker--a blond's brain cells die alone." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 98b37b5 | When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done. | wisdom | Dr. Seuss | |
| 0daea9a | If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice. | Rick Warren | ||
| 1e63cf0 | Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain. | jane-austen comfort inspirational pride-and-prejudice | Jane Austen | |
| 4da8f72 | She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not to understand her. That's what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand . She knows impossible. She just wants you to understand . Everything else is negotiable. | understanding inspirational understanding-oneself-and-others men-and-women | Neal Stephenson | |
| e9a2e70 | No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. | existentialism | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 0510234 | When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence. | inspirational | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 5244ed6 | People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 83d0611 | That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| f9d9753 | Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, | Bob Dylan | ||
| 708fb85 | Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs." | violence revenge fun humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 54689a3 | All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. | beauty leo-tolstoy diversity charm | Leo Tolstoy | |
| aaa0fda | And it's Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I've been saying it for years but she still won't go out with me --' 'JORDAN!' yelled Professor McGonagall. 'Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest -- | professor-mcgonagall order-of-the-phoenix jordan j-k-rowling quidditch | J.K. Rowling | |
| 0734cca | You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly. | steal the-princess-bride kidnap | William Goldman | |
| 7b979d5 | Things are never as bad as they seem. | Harper Lee | ||
| 9abea30 | In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, "I see you're an astrophysicist. What's that?" I answer, "Astrophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe--the Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing." Then he asks, "What do you teach at Princeton?" and I say, "I teach .. | universe science eyewitness jury-duty voir-dire astrophysics | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 84f74ec | I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave. | David Levithan | ||
| 758c073 | It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 9b37290 | I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none. | lies good love truth mrs-coulter | Philip Pullman | |
| 875898c | Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3c1ad03 | If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: , the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world migh.. | morality jainism mahavira ten-commandments scripture | Sam Harris | |
| 9c80c50 | They don't fit you?" V asked his roommate. "Not the point. No offense, but these are wicked Village People." Butch held his heavy arms out and turned in a circle, his bare chest catching the light. "I mean, come on." "They're for fighting, not fashion." "So are kilts, but you don't see me rocking the tartan." "And thank God for that. You're too bowlegged to pull that shit off." Butch assumed a bored expression. "You can bite me." | romance humor vishous-vampire butch-vishous paranormal-romance | J.R. Ward | |
| 217f705 | Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. | pain grief loss sadness love missing-someone | Veronica Roth | |
| f452f8b | Some things are hard to let go of. | tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 118f8bd | But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart. | maria-v-snyder poison-study valek | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 7d56834 | We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally. | listening talking | Susan Cain | |
| cfb32a9 | I don't deserve you." "You're not allowed to say that." "Why not?" "It's a breakup line. Unless you're breaking up-" Jason leaned over and kissed her. The colors of the Roman afternoon suddenly seemed sharper, as it the world had switched to high definition. "No breakups," he promised. "I may have busted my head a few times, but I'm not that stupid." | jasper mark-of-athena piper-mclean rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 1a6f7bf | I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper | Rick Riordan | ||
| d874fc4 | HO | perfection inspirational perfectionism body-image self-love eating-disorders | Ellen Hopkins | |
| 4fa1ceb | Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway | inspirational | Ann Brashares | |
| c49ff32 | Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. | educator inspirational | Helen Keller | |
| 4812bd8 | Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. | management leadership inspirational | John C Maxwell | |
| c1985c9 | A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. | learning inspirational | Sophocles |