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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3b11b70 | I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. | love isolation | Anaïs Nin | |
| 4bbca29 | No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. | travel inspirational | Patrick Rothfuss | |
| acee414 | Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me. | anchoring individuality self-determination independence self-awareness empowerment inspirational country self-assurance self-sufficiency self-trust self-containment homelessness belonging self-reliance nationality attachment roots home self-respect self-esteem | Hugo Hamilton | |
| 3319f91 | The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5806540 | Seth threw me a mischievous grin. "I can't have Marcus just walking in on us. What if I want to snuggle on these cold New York nights?" My frown increased. "We don't snuggle." He dropped his arm over my shoulder, and the scent of mint and something wild tickled my nose. "How about we cuddle?" "We don't do that either." "But you're my cuddle bunny. My little Apollyon cuddle--" I punched him in the side." | seth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 1b24539 | If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8ab9586 | It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. | suicide pointless | Franz Kafka | |
| e555356 | Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. | grief life ethical ran jodi-picoult perfect-match moral | Jodi Picoult | |
| 22209fe | Wear your heart on your skin in this life. | tattooing tattoos | Sylvia Plath | |
| 183fe11 | Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. | time | John Updike | |
| 677cda9 | You know I love you right?" "I know," he breathed, his arm tightening automatically around my waist. "You know how much I wish it was enough." -- | love jacob-black | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 778432a | The mind of man is capable of anything. | man mind | Joseph Conrad | |
| db56049 | Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 8893c81 | The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces. | life million pieces sad | James Frey | |
| b37dece | How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preferenc.. | Jane Austen | ||
| 710fa4c | Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people wo.. | bypass hitchikers science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 2fd63be | A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2e13874 | He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2b97b4a | Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. | jung shadow | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 4f51be9 | Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8da33d8 | The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. | punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 43637c2 | Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 1e89a5f | Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live.. | soul-mates | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4cedc73 | There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings. | friendship | David Levithan | |
| ae57116 | I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger. | world reality hunger | Neil Gaiman | |
| 78301af | The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9106d77 | When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. 'This is my last experiment,' wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. 'If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I'll have to be shown. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| f394be4 | There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 4189a25 | I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while." | John Green | ||
| 58db353 | You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do. | lindsey-lee-wells john-green | John Green | |
| 099a2d6 | Tell you what," I said. "After the testing after the Demon Days, when things settle down -" "Things won't settle down." "- I'm going to take you to the mall." She blinked. "The mall? For what reason?" "To hang out," I said. "We'll get some hamburgers. See a movie." Zia hesitated. "Is this what you'd call a 'date'?" My expression must have been priceless, because Zia actually cracked a smile. "You look like a cow hit with a shovel." | Rick Riordan | ||
| a7b9815 | Will they cower?' Kym asked. 'Tons of cowering! Plus your name in the summer programme. A custom-designed banner. A cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Two shrines. I'll even throw in a Kymopoleia action figure.' 'No!' Polybotes wailed. 'Not merchandising rights! | kym kymopoleia polybotes rick-riordan leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 6124d2b | Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 503df66 | They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 429b2fa | A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on. | truth rumors | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8e402be | To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest. | lies poetry inspirational abuse abusers perpetrators innocent victims survivors | Flora Jessop | |
| 0ed5b60 | Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead. | inspirational | Paula White | |
| d28fdbd | Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 4526ae2 | Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 70dd2b7 | Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together. | writing construction creative-process destruction writers | Ray Bradbury | |
| 4591e3a | You say that I'm afraid of being alone, and it's true. I am. And I'm not proud of it. But you need to take a good look at yourself, Anna, because I am the only one in this room who suffers this problem. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 48ce144 | You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff" | unrequited-love | Emily Brontë | |
| e682d91 | But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 67cf6cc | Would you just stay with me? Stay with you? What for? Look at us! We're already fighting! Well that's what we do! We fight! You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you're being a pain in the ass! Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings, you have like a two-second rebound rate and you're back doing the next pain in the ass thing. So, what? So it's not gonna be easy, it's gonna be.. | Nicholas Sparks |