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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3276495 | She definitely has a crush on you. It's about the size of Jupiter. | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 1e19943 | Every time I've built character, I've regretted it. | Bill Watterson | ||
| f0034e8 | I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. | Bill Watterson | ||
| cdd0f8e | Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f84b268 | I ripped my left arm out of his hand and slammed my elbow into his solar plexus. He exhaled in a gasp. I lunged for the dagger and sat on top of him, my knees pinning his arms, my dagger on his throat. He lay still. "I give up," he said and smiled. "Your move." Er. I was sitting atop the Beast Lord in my underwear, holding a knife to his throat. What the hell was my next move?" | humor kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8070d68 | I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 41dddfa | Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered .. | love | Daniel Keyes | |
| c1ba8bc | A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn't married, we just think he hasn't come around to making his pick. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 219e2ce | for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 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 | |
| 5011ecc | Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. | Alice Walker | ||
| 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.. | koran mohammed muslim musselman paradise quran religious-violence the-prophet the-prophet-mohammed tripli | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 4def286 | Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrial highway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later. | humor katy-swartz luc origin | 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. | move-on story | 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. | haruki-murakami may-kasahara the-wind-up-bird-chronicle | 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 games life play | Roald Dahl | |
| dd88c2a | He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 6c23095 | Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2c1cf0c | Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. | extinction science survival | Carl Sagan | |
| 9cb9b2f | I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. | pride self-containment solitude | Rudyard Kipling | |
| b3124d7 | Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this "something" cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It's what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn't count it. Nothing counts without it." | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 4ffb7c7 | Ride?" Rhage snorted. "Please. That thing is a sewing machine with an air dam taped to it. My GTO could dust the fucker in fourth gear from a dead stop." When there was an odd sound from behind, John looked back. So did the three Brothers. "What." Xhex bristled and crossed her arms over her chest. "I can laugh, you know. And that's . . . pretty damn funny." Rhage beamed. "I knew I liked you." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 53b8bd6 | Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. | first-impressions | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| e1018dd | All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. | fear gods | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 8f70401 | For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 23e700c | VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI. | latin motto | Alan Moore | |
| f7c907e | I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 136b4b9 | So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. | jealousy | William Shakespeare | |
| e25868d | All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany's Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because ! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8de5d95 | Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and.. | inspirational | Christopher McCandless | |
| b6e2ef2 | Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. | inspirational | Lao Tzu | |
| f451863 | Of all the wonders that I have heard | death inspirational | William Shakespeare | |
| 59bab82 | You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment.. | cognition depression future issues judgment present troubles | Andrew Solomon | |
| 8430aa2 | bad.... | Kresley Cole | ||
| adfc787 | Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too. | forbidden-love impossible-love in-love lesbian love patricia-highsmith starcrossed-lovers the-price-of-salt unrequited-love | Patricia Highsmith |