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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 875ab0a | Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action. | nagasawa | Haruki Murakami | |
| 4450ec0 | But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. | life hyper excitement wild fireworks crazy | Raymond Carver | |
| fcda87d | But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad. | the-horror | Joseph Conrad | |
| 88914f7 | Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes. | insult | William Shakespeare | |
| a9f57ee | Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. | reading knowledge | Henry James | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 8402dfd | Nobody steals books but your friends. | irony books friendship inspirational stealing | Roger Zelazny | |
| 0e90226 | I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 8f25c6d | Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. | racism white-privilege racism-in-america | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| f063669 | The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 15d29af | You're an interesting woman." "Your interest has been duly noted." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a119f28 | Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| bb416c1 | They seek him here, they seek him there Those Frenchies seek him everywhere Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That demned elusive Pimpernel | scarlet-pimpernel | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | |
| f54c9b2 | Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake! | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a8b9003 | If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 76e906c | For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her." | John Green | ||
| 9519dad | Those are brave men... lets go kill them | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8a9145c | Percy!" he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you've never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I'm telling you, it'll wake you up quick." | tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| 494e667 | His hand rested above my hip, having a totally different impact on me. My skin tingled underneath the chiffon. Daemon cleared his throat as he glanced away. 'You...you look beautiful, by the way. Really too good to be with that idiot. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0de2f9a | Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. | winter music thawing warmth | Haruki Murakami | |
| 2359afd | People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. | life fragile effort sincerity regrets | Haruki Murakami | |
| 2652c6e | You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 1b6647c | The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. | friendship | C.S. Lewis | |
| d528e22 | If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance. | philosphy nihilism | Albert Camus | |
| 786fa2c | There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 5fe1d54 | A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. | William Shakespeare | ||
| ab518e2 | It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observ.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6cfd341 | Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad... | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1ad29da | What if reality is nothing but some disease? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 73f3295 | I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper a.. | depression | J.D. Salinger | |
| 2c704bf | I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dea.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 61f6e8e | What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 43d5ee4 | Which came first, the phoenix or the flame? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cf842ee | Success is... knowing your purpose in life, | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 78d38ff | There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. | virtue hate morality indignation envy double-standards vice | Erich Fromm | |
| 0266206 | I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it." | but-this-book-ruined-them cp2 i-used-to-have-a-heart tid james-carstairs clockwork-princess william-herondale the-infernal-devices parabatai tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| dde2895 | Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid. | romance humor rachel-morgan vampire | Kim Harrison | |
| 2a865a3 | Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3cb889c | The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8ecc2bc | The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 19c409d | People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. | Oscar Wilde |