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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a770da1 | I waited for him to say something more, but he was quiet. "Was there something you wanted?" I asked. He didn't answer right away, but I could feel him struggling, so I waited. "If I asked you something, would you tell me the truth?" It was my turn to hesitate. "I don't know everything," I hedged. "You would know this. When we were walking... me and Jeb... he was telling me some things. Things he thought, but I don't know if he's right." Mel.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1aa5e44 | Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 1c160c5 | What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 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. | words little-princess frances-hodgson-burnett communication language soul | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| b771633 | Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey. | inspiration soul-seeking | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0bf3044 | Time is making fools of us again. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f5dc1a3 | I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way..." "Yes, they do that," said Dumbledore." -- | humor order-of-the-phoenix malfoy sarcasm | J.K. Rowling | |
| 89f7f14 | Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure wil.. | Robert Greene | ||
| afa40af | Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 8af1c3d | Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. | kiss love dictionary | David Levithan | |
| 55f7373 | A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it." | realm-of-possibility | David Levithan | |
| db8fc77 | My point is that I am going to figure this out, like I always do. First, we're going to find a way to get into Artemisia. We're going to find Cress and rescue Cinder and Wolf. We're going to overthrow Levana, and by the stars above, we are going to make Cinder a queen so she can pay us a lot of money from her royal coffers and we can all retire very rich and very alive, got it?" Winter started to clap. "Brilliant speech. Such gumption and b.. | humour iko scarlet-benoit winter-hayle-blackburn | Marissa Meyer | |
| eeb845b | A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. | calvin calvin-and-hobbes procrastination | Bill Watterson | |
| 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. | young-adult vampire | P.C. Cast | |
| dfe55e2 | I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f70db6a | There is nothing more notable in than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. | philosophy lifelong-learning socrates | Michel de Montaigne | |
| fbadf50 | I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a6ffb34 | Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 9685cbd | We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. | life inspirational | Joseph Campbell | |
| 76465d1 | God, he even knew their names. Rhage. Phury. And that scary-ass Zsadist guy. Yeah, no Tom, Dick, and Harry names for the vampire types. But come on, could you actually imagine some lethal bloodsucker named Howard? Eugene? | dark-lover | J.R. Ward | |
| c30bd0f | God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars." And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done. Nice going, God. Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have. I feel very unimportant compared to You. The only way I can feel the least bi.. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 7d29ce5 | You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew. | perhaps looking-for-alaska | John Green | |
| 38b7af6 | I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it." "My earrings?" "What earrings?" | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 278b4bf | A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 1fd41d4 | Oh, by the way..." Jason glanced at Percy. "I resigned my office, gave Frank a field promotion to praetor. Unless you want to contest that ruling." Percy grinned. "No argument here." "Praetor?" Hazel stared at Frank. He shrugged uncomfortably. "Well... yeah. I know it seems weird." She tried to throw her arms around him, then winced as she remembered her busted ribs. She settled for kissing him. "It seems perfect." Leo clapped Frank on .. | percy-jackson jason-grace leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| ca8ed1c | I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. | wine | William Shakespeare | |
| d6d5728 | Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit. | inspirational | Tupac Shakur | |
| b9bccf0 | Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. | inspirational just-do-it live-life make-a-difference | William Arthur Ward | |
| e04c8ae | No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up. | humor postmodern | Philip K. Dick | |
| a0fbc13 | Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. | reading | Azar Nafisi | |
| 7cf92af | Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me--to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools. | freedom necessity service | Orson Scott Card | |
| 55508cb | We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation. The Ambassador [of Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their aut.. | musselman the-prophet the-prophet-mohammed tripli koran quran religious-violence mohammed paradise muslim | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 4def286 | Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrial highway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later. | humor origin luc katy-swartz | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| b42bcef | It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many. | writing | Margaret Atwood | |
| 017fe4e | It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. | story move-on | Arundhati Roy | |
| 8136d91 | A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. | self-love | Haruki Murakami | |
| 0223b05 | Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart. | storyteller | Haruki Murakami | |
| 234c2bf | A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 235e377 | I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. | the-wind-up-bird-chronicle haruki-murakami may-kasahara | Haruki Murakami | |
| fd43fca | I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6df9348 | To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 9919d69 | I was crying for joy, my Sassenach,' he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that I have two hands. That I have two hands to hold you with. To serve you with, to love you with. Thanking God that I am a whole man still, because of you." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5baa22f | Life is more fun if you play games. | fun life play games | Roald Dahl | |
| 5011ecc | Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. | Alice Walker |