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| 69acdf0 | is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain. The basis of the self is not thought but s.. | suffering truth feeling thinking thought | Milan Kundera | |
| 217e0ae | If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? | loss love jodi-picoult plain-truth wish remember sad memory | Jodi Picoult | |
| 85f210d | After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation. | Robert R. McCammon | ||
| 315fdd1 | I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door again... I came in through the window... Still, the intent was clear," said Edward." | humor edward rules | Stephenie Meyer | |
| d7172f4 | Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| d1c8044 | Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. | Anne Lamott | ||
| d3bed1b | When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master -- that's all. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 763634e | Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R. | James Patterson | ||
| 6103289 | we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all. | Joan Didion | ||
| 2fb38ae | A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. | marriage | John Steinbeck | |
| 67627d9 | And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding... { } | myth reason irreligion jupiter minerva virgin-birth supreme-being united-states virgin freedom-of-thought father | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 93b473b | What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity. | pity | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7666019 | Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted. | fairy-tale | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| bd6b048 | You're my Star, a stargazer too, | Plato | ||
| e89aef0 | Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered. | life possibility what-if regrets | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 1457079 | You love your country," she said. "I can't let you give all that up." He caught a glimmer of pain and hope in her eyes, and before he knew what he was doing , he'd closed the distance between them, one hand on her waist and the other on her shoulder. "I'd be the greatest fool in the world to let you go alone." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a50ff18 | Don't you--you don't want your own space?" "No," he said baldly. "Unless you do. I need you protecting me from our enemies with your water-wolves." | rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 3f336ac | I had just heard tales that the Valkyrie were large warriors, akin to Amazons." "If you're the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, nubile females, or by she-monsters who can bench Buicks?" | humor | Kresley Cole | |
| 0922ae4 | It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. | reality | Virginia Woolf | |
| 1f48389 | Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 391e08f | I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide. | voltaire | Voltaire | |
| 0b59107 | Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious. | Harper Lee | ||
| 01e5ba2 | Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent. | humor life | Glen Cook | |
| 420c88b | Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. | rain | David Levithan | |
| 7503a73 | We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease. | Alain De Botton | ||
| f6b89d6 | Cinder," Iko said after a few silent minutes of explorations. "I'm " | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 9bdec49 | Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 18b109a | In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you." | love | Rachel Caine | |
| 716f374 | An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. | humor fame | Andy Warhol | |
| 02ae3ed | I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| f90dc28 | Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| cceb82a | I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read | Stephen King | ||
| 117008b | Okay," he said. "I gotta go to sleep. It's almost one." "Okay," I said. "Okay," he said. I giggled and said, "Okay." And then the line was quiet but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone. "Okay," he said after forever. "Maybe oka.. | John Green | ||
| a61440d | You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted. | John Green | ||
| 02adcac | Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 18e8c43 | I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back." | humor wine | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 2a21d6b | Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 6dd810a | History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. | history a-song-of-ice-and-fire | George R.R. Martin | |
| 640e534 | If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 9c8699b | Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 893c935 | A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6ecbe95 | Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. | change-a-life compassion inspirational strangers smile | Steve Maraboli | |
| 82d7d7d | Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'. | inspirational | Angie Thomas | |
| 1eaa19e | Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive? | andrew clements oxemoron life wisdom inspirational paradox ironic beautiful | Andrew Clements |