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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d246855 | Batman has an impeccable moral compass, he's clever and mysterious, and when fucktards get sassy, he punches them in the face. | Kevin Smith | ||
| 8260620 | You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!" -- | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 5abc8b6 | I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat" | crazy reality-sucks wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| 85b34ff | How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming "Off with her head! Off with--" "Nonsense!" said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent." | to-get-the-best-of | Lewis Carroll | |
| 24528b6 | if you'd like it put more simply---Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8df579e | Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat; "we're all mad here." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| beea125 | This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 21e7269 | It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know. | Lewis Carroll (The Gryphon) | ||
| 182f099 | no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 26ffb0d | You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| bc7606c | When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -" "Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" Alice asked. "We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily: "really you are very dull!" | learning mock-turtle pun school taught teacher tortoise turtle wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| 1fdc627 | The question is, which is to be master? That's all. They've a temper, some of them. Particularly verbs. Oh, they're the proudest! Adjectives, eh, you can do anything with, but not verbs however. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 438e021 | And though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story, For "happy summer days" gone by, And vanish'd summer glory-- It shall not touch with breath of bale, The pleasance of our fairy-tale." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 0a8cdc5 | The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass. | alice-in-wonderland carroll lewis-carroll looking-glass microscope mind recognition science ships thrilling | David Fairchild | |
| 2f4879c | I like the Walrus best,' said Alice: `because you see he was a little sorry for the poor oysters.' `He ate more than the Carpenter, though,' said Tweedledee. `You see he held his handkerchief in front, so that the Carpenter couldn't count how many he took: contrariwise.' `That was mean!' Alice said indignantly. `Then I like the Carpenter best--if he didn't eat so many as the Walrus.' `But he ate as many as he could get,' said Tweedledum. Th.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 9862cdd | There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. 'Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' thought Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind.' The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 031f1a6 | I see nobody on the road,' said Alice. 'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| a7e3790 | Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off. | wealth | Lawrence Durrell | |
| a581ae2 | There are only three things to be done with a woman' said Clea once. 'You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 21f97e9 | The first step in helping a suffering person is to acknowledge that the pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 027153d | Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you. | Reynolds Price | ||
| 8d48dfc | How differently would the world view Christians if we focused on our own failings rather than on society's? As I read the New Testament I am struck by how little attention it gives to the faults of the surrounding culture. Jesus and Paul say nothing about violent gladiator games or infanticide, both common practices among the Romans. In a telling passage, the apostle Paul responds fiercely to a report of incest in the Corinthian church. He .. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 06cddac | Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 815f19f | We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88) | grace redemption | Philip Yancey | |
| e33e2b7 | People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 903f9fb | One bold message in the Book of Job is that you can say anything to God. Throw at him your grief, your anger, your doubt, your bitterness, your betrayal, your disappointment--he can absorb them all. As often as not, spiritual giants of the Bible are shown contending with God. They prefer to go away limping, like Jacob, rather than to shut God out. In this respect, the Bible prefigures a tenet of modern psychology: you can't really deny your.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 7ebbf99 | Frederick Buechner writes, "Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 31c14ba | Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply. | life | Philip Yancey | |
| afc9f94 | A quick puke, two rails of blow and she was solid. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| aa70e5f | La puerta se cierra y St. Clair grita: --!Lola, Cricket quiere mostrarte su cosa tambieeen! --Ellos se rien mientras el eco de sus pisadas se aleja por el pasillo. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 48016f7 | You don't always have to solve your problems alone, you know. This is why people talk to their friends. | motivational | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 9731358 | For a certain type of person, high school will always be brutal,' the head says. 'The best advice that I can give you is to figure out what comes next, and work towards that. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ab308a9 | I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist." | atheist belives christmas-tree yom-kippur | Stephanie Perkins | |
| a31efdf | I tell the annoying classmates to shove it, and Madame Guillotine gets mad at me. Not because I told them to shove it,but because What is wrong with this school? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b1d1ba8 | He pats his way around the bed and slides back in. 'Ow,' he says. 'Yes?' 'My belt. Would it be weird...' I'm thankful he can't see me blush. 'Of course not.' And I listen to the slap of leather as he pulls it out of his belt loops. He lays it gently on my hardwood floor. 'Um,' he says. 'Would it be weird--' 'YES.' 'Oh, piss off. I'm not talking trousers. I only want under the blankets.That breeze is horrible.' He slides underneath, and now .. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6a3371a | You can carry alt these memories around. They'll last longer than your grief, I promise, and someday you'll be able to think of them and feel like I'm right there with you again. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 902914c | He couldn't be dead, because he was still so alive in her mind. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 9174a58 | Siempre he sentido que estoy matando el tiempo aqui hasta que mi vida real pueda empezar. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 76724d3 | Because, of course, of how intelligent you are. And funny. Not that you aren't attractive. Because you are. Attractive. Oh, bugger..." I wait. "Are you still there, or did you hang up because I'm such a bleeding idiot?" "I'm here." "God, you made me work for that." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ba77661 | It's about isolation and loneliness, but it's also about friendship. Being exactly what the other person needs. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 218df73 | Let's go over the facts one more time," Josh says. "This is your first weekend away from home?" "Yes." "Your first weekend without parental supervision?" "Yes." "Your first weekend without parental supervision And you want to spend it in your bedroom? Alone?" He and Rashmi exchange pitying glances. I look at St. Clair for help, but find him staring at me with his head tilted to the side. "What?" I ask,irritated. "Soup on my chin? Green be.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| aabcba8 | Your brother?" St. Clair points above my bed to the only picture I've hung up. Seany is grinning at the camera and pointing at one of my mother's research turtles,which is lifting its neck and threatening to take away his finger. Mom is doing a study on the lifetime reproductive habits of snapping turtles and visits her brood in the Chattahoochie River several times a month. My brother loves to go with her, while I prefer the safety of our .. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 87dada4 | Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e3b9e73 | Murder can be made to look like suicide, and suicide can be made to look like murder. | suicide | James Patterson |