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| cd3ad98 | Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horiz.. | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 97020e7 | She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 275cbb1 | For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. | pain friendship | Virginia Woolf | |
| 3beeeeb | Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled. | romance ivy jenks rachel-morgan vampire supernatural | Kim Harrison | |
| a4d4d7d | For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel. | love sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 3caae1c | Dally was so real he scared me. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 05f5a9c | But we never get back our youth... The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. | macabre dark inspirational | Oscar Wilde | |
| 38d723d | Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 644c782 | Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you gone crazy? They'll..." Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. "They won't be able to do a thing." | humor urgals eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| 3dd804e | He gave me the brochure. It was about the Hunters of Artemis. The front read, A WISE CHOICE FOR YOUR FUTURE! Inside were pictures of young maidens doing hunter stuff, chasing monsters, shooting bows. There were captions like: HEALTH BENEFITS: IMMORTALITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU! and A BOY-FREE TOMORROW! "I found that in Annabeth's backpack," Grover said. I stared at him. "I don't understand." "Well, it seems to me... maybe Annabeth was th.. | artemis grover-underwood percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 48ae170 | It's my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! "Happy birthday!" I yelled. "Now shut up!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| e5923c4 | Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it." -- | want kiss foolish sick drunk | Holly Black | |
| aeab819 | Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2998635 | When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our". | relationships life love inspirational understanding-others | Steve Maraboli | |
| 8ec15b1 | You can only be afraid of what you think you know. | fear inspirational knowledge | Jiddu Krishnamurti | |
| a5cf477 | There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 411b514 | Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b1ea789 | But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself. | slavery | C.S. Lewis | |
| 5d9c823 | In speaking of this desire for our own far off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you--the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversati.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| d921c23 | It never made sense for you to love me. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6a5caa8 | Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain--and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; .. | depression poetry isolation | Robert Frost | |
| d9a286f | Dear Max - You looked so beautiful today. I'm going to remember what you looked like forever. ... And I hope you remember me the same way - clean, ha-ha. I'm glad our last time together was happy. But I'm leaving tonight, leaving the flock, and this time it's for good. I don't know if I'll ever see any of you again. The thing is, Max, that everyone is a little bit right. Added up all together, it makes this one big right. Dylan's a little.. | love maximum patterson max james letter ride sweet teen | James Patterson | |
| e853f03 | She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal." | life moments | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| f09be36 | I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart. | Mitch Albom | ||
| bf76698 | But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a7c7ff4 | To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human con.. | sex inspiration religion happiness love connection | Dan Simmons | |
| 325a0a2 | Her scent hit him. For a second, he could only breathe it deep into his lungs,his Fae instincts roaring that this was his family, this was his queen, this was Aelin. He would have known her even if he were blind. Even if there was another scent entwined with hers. Staggeringly powerful and ancient and--male. Interesting. | aelin-galathynius rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 12b6b3c | He would move on. Because he would not be like the ancient kings in the song and keep her for himself. She deserved a loyal, brave knight who saw her for what she was and did not fear her. And deserved someone who would look at him like that, even if the love wouldn't be the same, even if the girl wouldn't be her. So Dorian closed his eyes, and took another long breath. And when he opened his eyes, he let her go. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 609195f | Seniors get to do all the jolly things," Owen complained as they walked to archery practice that first day. Neal glared at the chubby second-year with all the royal disdain of a vexed lion. He was limping from a staff blow to the knee. "You are a bloody minded-savage," he informed Owen sternly. "I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs." | neal owen | Tamora Pierce | |
| 3b465c7 | If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 32de6e9 | I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3c9babe | Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should. | world-war-ii diary | Anne Frank | |
| 7983042 | You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. | science | Richard P. Feynman | |
| aedbda3 | I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cea513e | Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1c129e8 | Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us -" screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the door to the ramparts burst open once more and there stood Snape, his wand clutched in his hand as his black eyes swept the scene, from Dumbledore slumped against the wall, to the four Death Eaters, including the enraged werewolf, and Malfoy. "We've got a problem, Snape," said the lumpy Amycus, whose eyes and wand were fixed alike upon Dumbledore.. | harry-potter death shock malfoy snape dumbledore terror | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7fe339d | It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. | travel | Gustave Flaubert | |
| db20dec | Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded t.. | seasons nature fall weather | George Eliot | |
| 1f5d435 | Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| e2e6d5b | There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went. | moving | Stephen King | |
| df62705 | As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 580e24e | We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time | John Green | ||
| 425e352 | To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| e3d948d | If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. | poetry death life privacy intimacy | Fernando Pessoa |