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| 87d3de8 | Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do n.. | evil knowledge morality responsibility | Ayn Rand | |
| 397bbfb | Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 63674af | I've never been the one. Not for anybody." He closed the distance between them. "You'll get used to it." He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. "Why? Why am I the one?" "Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it." | love marriage romance sweet | Nora Roberts | |
| 6a155df | You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. | Jane Austen | ||
| c694d91 | The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 51eb574 | Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals." | growth poetry soul truth | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 25bff95 | For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. | Albert Camus | ||
| c07f11e | Nudge: You aren't . Iggy (irritably): No. You aren't dead either. How about just 'hello'? | James Patterson | ||
| bf10f41 | Do you always wear underwear like this, or is it for me?" I rolled to my back and pulled the sheet to my waist. "It isn't for you, I've been wearing underwear like this since Gram gave me my first Frederick's of Hollywood box on my sixteenth birthday. Now, I owe Victoria's Secret my first-born child." Before speaking again, Lee waited several seconds that can only be described as 'loaded silence'. While this silence was going on, he pulled.. | Kristen Ashley | ||
| 33640ef | Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. | Homer | ||
| 9ae188d | It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you... | Emily Giffin | ||
| fbf7954 | Not doing pictures these days?" Jacin muttered as they hurried through the shop. "How very Lunar of you." Cinder glared against the sudden, burning sunlight. "Very wanted criminal of me too." | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 55c4ae9 | I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in. | Isaac Bashevis Singer | ||
| 5cee266 | Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 90904f9 | We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. | harvard-commencement-speech imagination magic | J.K. Rowling | |
| 42216b9 | No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1160b47 | Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man. | dumbledore sacrifices | J.K. Rowling | |
| fa139ec | people used to tell me that i had beautiful hands told me so often, in fact, that one day i started to believe them until i asked my photographer father, "hey daddy could i be a hand model" to which he said no way, i dont remember the reason he gave me and i wouldve been upset, but there were far too many stuffed animals to hold too many homework assignment to write, too many boys to wave at too many years to grow, we used to have a ga.. | Sarah Kay | ||
| b0c0cba | Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 7b31db2 | You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3eadb40 | Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 0f49bea | Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of prev.. | complacency corruption decline misgovernment political-philosophy | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 7c05903 | What?" he demanded. "Did you just...clean a dish?" Dee backed away slowly, blinking. She glanced at Daemon. "The world is going to end. And I'm still a vir--" "No!" both the brothers yelled in unison. Daemon looked like he was actually going to vomit. "Jesus, don't ever finish that statement. Actually, don't ever change that. Thank you." Her mouth dropped open."You expect me to never have--" "This isn't a conversation I want to star.. | dawson dee triplets | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 0520894 | You're amazing." "I know it didn't take you this long to realize that." "No. I've always known it." I watched him root around for another strawberry. "Maybe not in the beginning..." He peeked up. "My awesomeness is all about the stealth." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e46ed84 | When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity. | sincerity | Haruki Murakami | |
| 4942990 | That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cfd7bc6 | Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor. | seduction | James Joyce | |
| faa7513 | You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job." | evvy girl girls trouble | Tamora Pierce | |
| 9895e0f | The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. | paper-towns | John Green | |
| ed6ce2b | I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. | inspirational | Charlotte Bronte | |
| 7dbcfee | When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another. | inspirational | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 6fc6e92 | He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 8534e78 | Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind. | blue-bloods fiction martin-kingsley van-alen-legacy young-adult | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 6c0959d | The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 38cef28 | In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 2e9e6e2 | I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts. | harry-dresden humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 3054628 | Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'. | idiot rincewind tourism twoflower | Terry Pratchett | |
| c095451 | A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. | endurance ideas inspirational | John F. Kennedy | |
| 29e11ed | I think that I shall never se | god inspirational poem poems rain tree | Joyce Kilmer | |
| e02f0c6 | In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book. | inspirational writers writers-on-writing writing | Junot Diaz | |
| b17237d | Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. | horror inspirational misattributed-to-stephen-king | Robert Bloch | |
| cc6c26d | How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. | communication frances-hodgson-burnett language little-princess soul words | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| b771633 | Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey. | inspiration soul-seeking | Paulo Coelho | |
| 9823963 | If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?' Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice. | vampire young-adult | P.C. Cast |