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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | |
| 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... { } | father freedom-of-thought irreligion jupiter minerva myth reason supreme-being united-states virgin virgin-birth | 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 | |
| 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." | edward humor 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 64cba80 | Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception - especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're sc.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 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 | ||
| 5a0ab26 | Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 5a7704e | Words are the source of misunderstandings. | miscommunication | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 8a986ae | You'll become the center of someone's world one day. And he'll be the luckiest son of a bitch on this earth. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1fef87f | People are never perfect, but love can be. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 53b9043 | People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 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.. | feeling suffering thinking thought truth | Milan Kundera | |
| 217e0ae | If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? | jodi-picoult loss love memory plain-truth remember sad wish | Jodi Picoult | |
| 716f374 | An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. | fame humor | 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. | a-song-of-ice-and-fire history | 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 smile strangers | 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 beautiful clements inspirational ironic life oxemoron paradox wisdom | Andrew Clements |