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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 118e86e | It was necessary because she needed to do it. This is what made it necessary. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3a0ce5d | Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| dc2a102 | The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight. | sad | Charles Baudelaire | |
| c78a39e | When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 5341752 | The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome. | Lori Lansens | ||
| db1d59c | the only thing left to do is love | Lori Lansens | ||
| e254d74 | Later I had to raise the baby rats she ate, and why I thought one creature was my beloved pet while the other creatures were food is still a mystery to me. That was my first clue that love can warp a hierarchy; the whole pyramid got flipped on its head. | Karen Russell | ||
| a5ca9af | I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings. | Karen Russell | ||
| 8aa22bc | If Sawtooth could put words to the brambled knot forming in his throat, he would tell her: Girl, don't go. I am marooned in this place without you. What I feel for you is more than love. It's stronger, peninsular. You connect me to the Mainland. You are my leg of land over dark water. | out-to-sea | Karen Russell | |
| 94b78de | There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over. | monsters | Karen Russell | |
| f723835 | Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for. | karen-russell occurrence-00-422 | Karen Russell | |
| e72fabb | THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU! | Karen Russell | ||
| 22d670d | Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness. | Karen Russell | ||
| 1db5f03 | What is believed in one man's time, is despised in another man's day. To be sure, there will even be revulsion in some future years at things you hardly notice, that are happening in what is known to you as the present. | Pat O'Shea | ||
| a65981a | Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 48abb32 | We are the center. In each of our minds - some may call it arrogance, or selfishness - we are the center, and all the world moves about us, and for us, and because of us. This is the paradox of community, the one and the whole, the desires of the one often in direct conflict with the needs of the whole. Who among us has not wondered if all the world is no more than a personal dream? I do not believe that such thoughts are arrogant or selfis.. | friendship love | R.A. Salvatore | |
| e093937 | To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power. | weapons | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 631bdf6 | Only when we admit to our failures and recognize our weaknesses can we rise above them. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ba78af8 | One of the most common truth in live is that we all take for granted things simply are. Whether a spouse, a friend, a family, or a home, after enough time has passed that person, place, or situation becomes accepted norms of our lives. - Drizzt Do'Urden | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| b73faa9 | People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart. | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 743fa60 | Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment." | Edward de Bono | ||
| c209c09 | The most powerful weapon is hope. | weapon | Juliet Marillier | |
| 9116080 | I told you once," said Red, "that I wanted to hear your voice. I did not think the first words I would hear would be these." "Those were not the first words," I whispered, fighting tears. I would not weep." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 69ac22f | What did she give you?" He turned and smiled at me, the curve of his wide mouth transforming his face completely. "Faith in myself," he said simply. "To do what's right, and not falter, no matter how hard it gets." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| e196c60 | Every ancient tale has truth at its heart," I said. "That's what I've always believed, anyway. But after years and years of retelling, the shape of those old stories changes. What may once have been simple and easily recognized becomes strange, wondrous and magical. Those are only the trappings of the story. The truth lies beneath those fantastic garments." | legends myths | Juliet Marillier | |
| 48a722f | But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| dee88de | Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 36b609a | Each of us wore our memories of what might have been. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 35b4b2f | There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on fighting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow. | hope inspirational war warrior | Juliet Marillier | |
| b31ba8e | She said, a child born at midwinter comes into the world on the shortest day of the year. From that point on, the days stretch out. And so a child born at midwinter walks always toward the light, all his life. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 65aafe0 | I had thought that when you feel your worst your tears flood, but the very worst pain is the arid pain of total violation that comes after the tears are all used up, the pain that stops up every space through which you once metered the world, or the world, you. This is the presence of major depression. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| b75903e | Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| f2c079d | I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 8353efe | She looked at me - I was crying, though she was not - and she took on a tone of gentle reprimand. 'Don't think you're paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life,' she said to me. 'The best tribute you can pay to me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 0597282 | There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues" | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| d65f368 | Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No. | humor tiercel | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 712f534 | Van, Van, we're only simple, fallible mortals - we aren't saints, we aren't angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly - | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 4020745 | We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 24ea495 | The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 19621cd | what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?" He shook his head, obviously at a loss. "I can't tell you; I don't know. I don't Heal minds, I Heal bodies. And I don't know of anyone who Heals hearts." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 271e313 | now it becomes clear that he's one of those people who is fastidious about his personal appearance but secretly skivenly about everything else | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c5f6cde | Time is nothing. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 47acb97 | Being in love is...anxious," he said. "Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is...you're naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all...I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her." | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| fa04731 | Sometimes a thing is---too much---and it has to be isolated put away. | audrey niffenegger |