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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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.. | responsibility morality knowledge evil | 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." | marriage romance love 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." | poetry truth growth soul | Kahlil Gibran | |
| e4f6ace | I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| a68f209 | And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it. | Libba Bray | ||
| c0bba2b | People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all. | Libba Bray | ||
| 5e3b776 | Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. | knowledge | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| faa7513 | You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job." | evvy girls girl trouble | Tamora Pierce | |
| 918ee27 | A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 0dfb4f2 | The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 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. | magic imagination harvard-commencement-speech | 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. | sacrifices dumbledore | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| c071305 | I'm worried he's going to...do something crazy." "He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define ." Claire closed her eyes. "Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it into the machine." Dead silence." | eve-rosser myrnin | Rachel Caine | |
| 635fb83 | They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 7db1ecf | That's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end. | Richard Bach | ||
| 0e1e8c6 | True story This morning I jumped on my horse And went for a ride, And some wild outlaws chased me And shot me in the side. So I crawled into a wildcats cave To find a place to hide But some pirates found me sleeping there And soon they had me tied To a pole and built a fire Under me---I almost cried Till a mermaid came and cut me loose And begged to be my bride So I said id come back Wednesday But I must admit I lied. Then I ran into a jung.. | poem | Shel Silverstein | |
| 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. | young-adult fiction martin-kingsley van-alen-legacy blue-bloods | 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. | humor harry-dresden | 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. | inspirational endurance ideas | John F. Kennedy | |
| 29e11ed | I think that I shall never se | poem rain poems god inspirational 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. | writing inspirational writers-on-writing writers | 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. | misattributed-to-stephen-king inspirational horror | Robert Bloch | |
| 3127c28 | jyb@ hdhh lslTn@ bnsh w`fryth..trf` sh`r llh wtGwS fy ldns !! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 246d334 | Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. | mankind perfection beasts | Jeannette Walls | |
| bb7717d | It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. | C.S. Lewis |