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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b104ca | I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3681dca | In the midst of life, we are in death. | life | Agatha Christie | |
| 020ca52 | If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the lice.. | future life | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 82ed8ce | Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this. | humor monkeys | Maureen Johnson | |
| 9751fd2 | She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 76b3bd0 | Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret .. | music nature sherlock-holmes watson | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| f29d6c8 | Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. | pain pointless sacrifice space | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 4d9d7fe | Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.' 'I'm not dissing you,' Claire sighed. 'I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important. | monica-morrell morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 1b31edd | If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil. If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape. If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions. All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not. May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them. May you find perf.. | Christopher Moore | ||
| cd69027 | Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 02cb4d6 | You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity. | Rick Warren | ||
| 398c577 | One word from you shall silence me forever. | Jane Austen | ||
| feae886 | To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. | music poetry writing | Truman Capote | |
| 238f946 | Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too." | elena-michaels | KELLEY ARMSTRONG | |
| 24fe16b | We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break. | life lolita nabokov | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 4233d4d | I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them. | Amy Tan | ||
| 5a7bcb0 | He's my brother, my blood. He annoys the hell out of me most of the time, but when it comes right down to it I want to see him graduate from college and have little annoying mini-Alexes and mini-Brittanys running around in the future | siblings | Simone Elkeles | |
| f86913b | I guess it's time." While Cress's thoughts continued to churn through the horrible things that could happen to her, she felt herself being suddenly spun around and dipped backward, a supportive arm scooping beneath her back. She yelped and caught herself on Thorne's shoulder. Then he was kissing her." | cute kiss love | marissa meyer | |
| 25c7949 | Sometimes your heart is the only thing worth listening to. | Marissa Meyer | ||
| cd8e818 | now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework. | David Mitchell | ||
| 112e5c7 | The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. | irish song war | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 7b0f13c | This is your copy of , is it, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry, still breathing hard. "You're quite sure of that, are you, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry, with a touch more defiance. "This is the copy of that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts?" "Yes," said Harry firmly. "Then why," asked Snape, "does it have the name 'Roonil Wazlib' written inside the front cover?" Harry's heart missed a beat. "That's my nickname," he said." | humor potions ron-weasley severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5ac220a | If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? | optimism satire | Voltaire | |
| 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 | ||
| 87ae9ed | I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 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 | ||
| 7531bd0 | No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 89ab21e | I think I wished for you all of my life. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2c126dc | At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go-.. | cruel deception flirting heartbreaker heartbroken love lying selfish sue-bridehead | Thomas Hardy | |
| d533ddc | Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 2c901d0 | I mean, we're ninjas." "Well maybe a ninja," I said "You're just a really loud, awkward ninja," Margo said, "but we are both ninjas." | funny ninjas | John Green | |
| 414cecf | I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. | John Green | ||
| a5b58aa | It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them | four tobias veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 2c5ab0e | You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 98aef1a | Very slowly, using only two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as far as she could into the water. Octavian made a squeaking sound. "What was that for? I didn't say toss it! That could've been evidence. Or spoils of war!" Annabeth tried for a dumb-blonde smile, like: Oh, silly me. Nobody who knew her would have been fooled. But Octavian seemed to buy it. He huffed in exasperation. "You other two..." He .. | percabeth percy-jackson the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| abb7891 | Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon's Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn't care. | percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians poseidon the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| 072ab5c | arabic inspirational sadness spiritual | ???? ??????? | ||
| 8be5d89 | We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence. | independence inspirational love | Fred Rogers | |
| 0e90226 | I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| a4266cf | In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fdb9bab | Aelin had promised herself, months and months ago, that she would not pretend to be anything but what she was. She had crawled through darkness and blood and despair-she had survived. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 86c4ae8 | Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger. | Alice Sebold | ||
| ab2165a | From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew m.. | Arthur Golden |