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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7eec525 | Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 25ccfe3 | To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. | marriage relationships love truth being-loved | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 57dce94 | I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend. | John Green | ||
| 778024b | Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten. | Donald E. Westlake | ||
| e23a7d0 | Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. | right-of-passage self-determination inspirational self-responsibility personal-responsibility growing-up innocence parenting | Anne Frank | |
| e53c213 | They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. | Harper Lee | ||
| 802388a | The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. | responsibility personal-responsibility justice | George R.R. Martin | |
| 9fe0a64 | For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| c467f0f | Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9de0817 | Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. | literature disease | Jane Yolen | |
| 2d06814 | It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one. | humor prank joke | Rick Riordan | |
| 6092bef | Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 63d5ea7 | Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. | hatred religion god judgement | Harper Lee | |
| 72aa1a8 | Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them." | Harper Lee | ||
| 278b159 | If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8558e46 | Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2d6aa88 | Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but are the light inside. | light lamp clockwork-angel jem-carstairs warrior soul | Cassandra Clare | |
| cdaca79 | A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| d16a3b6 | make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to.. | life novelty security | Jon Krakauer | |
| 963ab76 | The major problem-- of the major problems, for there are several--one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on.. | politics hg2g rulers | Douglas Adams | |
| 9b337e5 | In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves. | haunt | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 63586ad | Um...is that thing ?" Frank said. The horse whinnied angrily. "I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, " | silly-chinese-canadian-baby-man | Rick Riordan | |
| b3dadaf | Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. | escape freedom reality intoxication | Anaïs Nin | |
| 4f69ccf | Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. | sorrow heartfelt tears shame | Charles Dickens | |
| af7d326 | And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 5192d43 | Your silence will not protect you. | silence speech | Audre Lorde | |
| 0ff945a | I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for? | lover humour relationships romance funny spiritual love inspirational wife husband fighting sweet | Stephanie Lennox | |
| 9ecb774 | That which you believe becomes your world. | Richard Matheson | ||
| e4cc919 | We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. | fate hope | Amy Tan | |
| 66bdde9 | You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed. | mythological paradise | Rick Riordan | |
| 7ccf319 | I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. | action relationships life love inspirational being-loved | Steve Maraboli | |
| b94ea1c | Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4033fef | I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 23cb45b | Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a0d8323 | Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. | myth funny humor posiedon the-lightning-thief olympians athena zeus percy-jackson mythology | Rick Riordan | |
| b653c92 | Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't. | letting-go change empowerment motivational life inspirational control | Steve Maraboli | |
| fa46086 | To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow | inspirational | William Shakespeare | |
| a188805 | To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life. | Art Spiegelman | ||
| 058aa3d | The things you used to own, now they own you. | things | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| b00e1f0 | If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. | David Levithan | ||
| 07c7549 | Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f541b6d | If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. | poetry finding-your-voice | Seamus Heaney | |
| 9c6e24e | there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. | sadness sad | Nicole Krauss | |
| 38df1a8 | We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again." | emotion heartbreak love percy-jackson | Rick Riordan |