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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2dfb210 | The wish of death had been palpably hanging over this otherwise idyllic paradise for a good many years | young-adult humour romance inspirational thriller | John Richard Spencer | |
| e28b3ca | Life is ours to be spent, not t | life inspirational | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 2cbd893 | When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 083829f | I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 2a9aaa4 | Are you lost, Lea? This isn't where they're handing out the free pregnancy tests. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 16f42ad | I love you, Katy. Always have. Always will," he said, voice thick and hoarse with panic. "I will come back for you. I will-" The emergency doors sealed shut with a soft thud. "I love you," I said, but Daemon...Daemon was gone." | katy opal | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| c9d88cf | How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more | Milan Kundera | ||
| f99cdbd | When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want. | inspirational | Haruki Murakami | |
| af08859 | This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty. | rage secret heartbreak picoult security empty | Jodi Picoult | |
| 6de5dd8 | See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded. | grief life | Jodi Picoult | |
| db0b296 | We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly." | perfection change wisdom fools | Ray Bradbury | |
| 779566b | In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the.. | joy optimism happiness hope life | Orhan Pamuk | |
| a20398d | I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her -after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred-I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever-for all the world a littl.. | sex feelings romance love brutal descriptive lust | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 4d0f859 | She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9bcc54f | I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow. | power-of-music | Chuck Klosterman | |
| a241852 | It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c3c38c9 | Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. | learning education knowledge teaching | Plato | |
| 58d5776 | The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So h.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4b3ceab | But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes. | J. D. Salinger | ||
| bf294e1 | You bow to no one, | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 091933d | This girl wasn't like wildfire--she was wildfire. Deadly and uncontrollable. And slightly out of her wits. | yrene-towers | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e03a919 | Guards are of no use in a library. Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas--perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7c25b81 | One life may change the world. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b0d8f12 | Most humans think the appearance of quiet quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 02d2165 | She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 94f7acc | If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is. | Betty Smith | ||
| 32b049f | The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it. | groom wedding smile | Judith McNaught | |
| 777e80e | If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem. | humor | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| f5b1623 | When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside--walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 637fb20 | For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 2350946 | I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| fb3eb01 | Captain! To your left there's a Lunar guard and on your right is a doctor who's running tests on Lunars and I'm being held by one of Levana's wolf hybrids and please be careful!" Thorne took a step back into the hallway a gun from his waistband. He spent a moment swiveling the barrel of the gun in each direction, but nobody moved to attack him. With some surprise, Cress realized that the operative's grip had weakened. "Er..." Thorne furrowe.. | humor cress thorne | Marissa Meyer | |
| 48429c9 | She would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny. | winter the-lunar-chronicles | Marissa Meyer | |
| 2522acc | Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. | self-sacrifice | Honoré de Balzac | |
| a785688 | The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| c674a39 | There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. | fairy-tales fantasy michael-ende | Michael Ende | |
| f2ab874 | In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with. | Diablo Cody | ||
| f61bae6 | I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. | understanding greed insight | Michel de Montaigne | |
| cf7bbd8 | Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow. | past | Toni Morrison | |
| 2a8b776 | A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there. | unopened book | J.R. Ward | |
| 774fc70 | I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now. | John Green | ||
| 2813ef1 | Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... " - Shigure Sohma" | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 5bf6fa3 | Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now. | courage inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational take-risks brave procrastination | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 8443596 | Instead of worrying about what could go wrong, change your thoughts to what could go right. When you change the negative thought into a positive one, it eliminates the negative one. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational | Roy T. Bennett |