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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6a88b3a | There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. | men women honor | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 76cbe12 | I don't deserve you. You know that, querida, don't you? (Alex) | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 3661bdc | To be able to forget means sanity. | sanity forgetting | Jack London | |
| e6ddc9f | A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name. We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. .. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 45d86c7 | I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 38e7c66 | That was when they noticed that every musician on the stage was wearing mourning black. That was when they shut up. And when the conductor raised his arms, it was not a symphony that filled the cavernous space. It was the Song of Eyllwe. Then Song of Fenharrow. And Melisande. And Terrasen. Each nation that had people in those labour camps. And finally, not for pomp or triumph, but to mourn what they had become, they played the Song of Adarl.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 463aa4c | Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance--we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| c68e385 | Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2e1c3d7 | If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhap.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 8519297 | You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. | James Baldwin | ||
| 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 | ||
| bbd8703 | Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. | Harper Lee | ||
| c91c23a | When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else. | David Levithan | ||
| 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 | |
| bd0c71a | On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners I learned "Lie down," "Shut up," and "Who shit on this carpet?" The couple across the road taught me to ask questions correctly, and the grocer taught me to count. Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointin.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 9df33bf | Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evid.. | reason skepticism evidence | Sam Harris | |
| ac9c651 | A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools. | romance | P.C. Cast | |
| 629ada3 | I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim | vampires | P.C. Cast | |
| 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. | science extinction survival | Carl Sagan | |
| 9cb9b2f | I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. | solitude self-containment pride | 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. | motto latin | 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 | |
| ab5da73 | God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 33e7ef8 | Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it. | Jenny Nimmo | ||
| f1de5fe | I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music | Haruki Murakami |