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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b578053 | Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason." Zeus's royal nostrils flared. "You dare accuse-" "No more undetermined children," I said. "I want you to promise to claim your children-all your demigod children-by the time they turn thirteen. They won't be left out in the world on their own at the mercy of m.. | zeus percy-jackson hades | Rick Riordan | |
| ae23470 | What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!" "Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything." -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 57b1a6f | Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 93015b8 | I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. | wisdom | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 2c853a9 | The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. | opportunities | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 09f8ad8 | Complain and remain. Praise and be raised. | inspirational | Joyce Meyer | |
| 1396b9a | To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult. | humor love truth inspirational | Santosh Kalwar | |
| 84f5b20 | I feel like the word shatter. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 73e2107 | If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c194b10 | It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore. | inspirational | Haruki Murakami | |
| 4e19b7e | 24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. | parenting | Jodi Picoult | |
| 916fa9d | With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c8e94ca | Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| a1ee884 | Some people have more guts than brains. | John Grisham | ||
| baa6ea4 | It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 89999ef | Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. | sadness | Kahlil Gibran | |
| e0c80d5 | You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 62e7d97 | Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much. | pain | P.D. James | |
| 68ccc8f | Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don't know, but it's a world where there's no time, so space, no frontiers. | feelings | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0044cea | I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d7904c0 | For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able.. | politics | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| af00a0b | My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me. | lying humour salvation | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 002246c | No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are. | Dean R. Koontz | ||
| 0a6c5cf | Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 96b9279 | But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief. | power-of-words psychology | Robert Greene | |
| e4e465c | There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them. | Harper Lee | ||
| 19e168e | Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory. | work thomas-raith | Jim Butcher | |
| f71ed19 | When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness." | David Sedaris | ||
| e8708cf | There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| c1b5a54 | Life's a bitch," I said. "And then you die," Larry finished for me." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 77b6d28 | Is it time for your period, or something?" With unerring instinct, he'd found a great big red button, and pushed it. Wyatt fights to win, which means he fights dirty. I understand the concept because that's how I fight, too, but understanding it didn't stop me from reacting. I could practically feel my blood bubbling with steam. He turned around, all controlled aggression, and damned if he didn't push the button again. "What is it about .. | women menstration periods | Linda Howard | |
| ccfdbc6 | You're my queen, and anyone who says different can fuck off. | P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast | ||
| 368f030 | When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 99e2514 | Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. | John Irving | ||
| 0b6dc2e | I'm nobody's sidekick," Annabeth growled. "And, Percy, his accent sounds familiar because he sounds like his mother. We killed her in New Jersey." Percy frowned. "I'm pretty sure that accent isn't New Jersey. Who's his--? Oh." It all fell into place. Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium--the lair of Medusa. She'd talked with that same accent, at least until Percy had cut off her head. " is your mom?" he asked. "Dude, that sucks for you." | family humor annabeth-chase medusa new-jersey percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena the-heroes-of-olympus | Rick Riordan | |
| bf76574 | I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire." -- | humor michael-carpenter | Jim Butcher | |
| 1318256 | Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em. | madness shakespeare mad insane william-shakespeare | Emilie Autumn | |
| 5bb8e45 | Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e130478 | Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken. | happyquotes inspired instadaily instaquote pinquotes poems quoteoftheday relationships rmdrake spokenword vsco writer poetry writing quote hope inspirational inspirationalquotes sadquotes typewriter tattoo sayings lovequotes quotes | robert m drake | |
| ff18f95 | When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. | truth inspirational | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| 27afe35 | Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you. | activist beautiful-personatlity beautiful-soul fathers giving-heart helping-out homeless-tent-community jealousy marine-life-conservation medical-missions motivators openess outward-beauty people-of-action real-people rescuers search-and-rescue time true-beauty prayer writing compassion inspiration philosophy truth inspirational empathetic takers communicators perspectives inner-beauty tender givers loving charity mothers community friendships service reflection judgement vanity aging | Shannon L. Alder | |
| daf9f37 | I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 0c27737 | Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of rea.. | reading italo winter-s if traveler calvino on night | Italo Calvino | |
| 1cc1026 | A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought. " | Diana Gabaldon |