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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62bb7f7 | To know one's own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one's own face with one's own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one's reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cbc3140 | Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. | religion love whiskey nowhere | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 5ffa2f2 | You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now. | hate indifference | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 1f1d9b7 | People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. | good religion god devil | Anne Rice | |
| 08451cb | Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 1b6731c | A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e5eabe8 | Sucks to your ass-mar! | William Golding | ||
| 8984abb | When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm. | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ||
| eec3cc3 | Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 63097cf | And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2c9e2c2 | Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fa13ceb | I don't even know what I was running for--I guess I just felt like it. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3966feb | Truth is a matter of the imagination. | truth | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a4ba121 | There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. | inspirational effectiveness activism | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 0aa2087 | HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die. | fact | Markus Zusak | |
| 36bef3e | O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 2a11060 | How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. | profound inspirational | Craig Thompson | |
| c5e7efb | Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 34a8be4 | That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. | sarcasm | Christopher Moore | |
| fa69b6c | I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| bb2301d | Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly. | humor vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| 4061b16 | For fuck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood. | phury zsadist | J.R. Ward | |
| c84957a | So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth | Mary Oliver | ||
| abc0a98 | The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car | Rick Riordan | ||
| 42e3de8 | Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!" "Good for him!" Leo yelled back. "The Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron's brothers." "What does that mean? The Party Ponies?" Leo had never met Chiron's crazy centaur relatives, but he'd heard rumors of Nerf sword-fights, root beer-chugging contests, and Super Soakers filled with pressurized whipped cream. "Not sure," Annabeth said. "But I've got coordinates. Can you input .. | family humor nereids party-ponies chiron heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 40161a8 | All for one and one for all. | unity | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 01b901e | No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets." | trouble regret | Holly Black | |
| c2bca8b | A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for. | true-purpose inspirational-quotes philosophy wisdom inspirational bird wisdom-quote philosophy-of-life wings | Amit Ray | |
| b14426d | In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide. | suicide | Orson Scott Card | |
| 18d92ec | It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who had seemed essential proved unnecessary. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| a438492 | The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood | Robert Frost | ||
| f54478a | You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 9a27d72 | The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing--a blanket--the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water. | rain pacific-northwest | Douglas Coupland | |
| 341d9da | The presence of God is the finest of rewards. | Yann Martel | ||
| 758eb35 | I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd exactly done that. | the-best-of-me | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 80b8cfc | I stared at the nose I'd seen bleeding only hours before, the violet eyes that had been so filled with pain. "Why?" I asked. He knew what I meant, and shrugged. "Because when the legends get written, I didn't want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines. I want my future offspring to know that I was there, and that I fought against her at the end, even if I couldn't do anything useful." I blinked, this time not at the brightness of t.. | rhysand rhys not-alone | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 40313de | Don't just give up, Hachiko. | nana manga | Ai Yazawa | |
| d4db204 | I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. | love unhappy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| cab3678 | I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle. | David Levithan | ||
| 6f15b64 | After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. | conceptual-art crystal-meth drugs | David Sedaris | |
| 61d2edf | When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| d759411 | And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| adb17ef | Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over... | equality feminism beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| 630aa79 | Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option. | Veronica Roth |