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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d8a409 | I agree with yours of the 22d tha | inspirational best university-of-virginia opinion theology | Thomas Jefferson | |
| ea8e26b | An idea is salvation by imagination | imagination inspirational art | Frank Lloyd Wright | |
| a53ee01 | My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. | happiness inspirational acceptance | Michael J. Fox | |
| b958c1d | Always tell what you feel. Do what you think... | inspirational | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| c4bfc10 | You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. | individuality reading morality learning life self-righteousness issues sensitivity novels society insight | Azar Nafisi | |
| 82ffbae | why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs. | love hurt | Marian Keyes | |
| c2fcf8b | He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. | lan new-spring wot robert overwhelmed jordan wheel-of-time expectations | Robert Jordan | |
| e151052 | If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. | youth writing talent | Haruki Murakami | |
| d4d56f4 | Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4f57941 | Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4318930 | When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her. | women | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 0e0a3b6 | Suspicion often creates what it suspects. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| c32d80b | I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can. | sadness | Sylvia Plath | |
| 1f05747 | Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away. Son, son, you have been mad and drunken, furious and wild, filled with hatred and despair, and all the dark confusions of the soul - but so have we. You found the earth too great for your one life, you found your brain and sinew smaller than the hunger and desire that fed on them - but it has been this way with all men. You have stumbled on .. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| cba33b6 | Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well. | inspirational | Maya Angelou | |
| 023ceb2 | Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.. | inspiration life winning | Dr. Seuss | |
| c5eb06a | If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything? | William Golding | ||
| 68af832 | A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 840d559 | She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. | Jane Austen | ||
| c2ea0ed | I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 8ebf2b0 | Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fcdccba | Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. | memories | Nicholas Sparks | |
| c47c511 | Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 83693eb | I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| be36b57 | You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| cfb677d | I want you to know ... " His lips trembled, and I brushed away the tear that escaped down his cheek. "I want you to know," I whispered, "that I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you. And I am honored--honored to be your mate." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cc05fae | A heart's a heavy burden. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 9f10d81 | There was much to hate in this world and too much to love. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5bcd4b4 | Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me. | quidditch | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3f42dbc | Power was my weakness and my temptation. | temptation weakness | J.K. Rowling | |
| afd0c67 | And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 02d9268 | There was a scuffling and a great thump: someone else had clambered out of the tunnel, overbalanced slightly and fallen. He pulled himself up on the nearest chair, looked around through lopsided horn - rimmed glasses and said, 'Am I too late? Has it started? I only just found out, so I - I -' Percy spluttered into silence. Evidently he had not expected to run into most of his family. There was a long moment of astonishment, broken by Fleur .. | percy-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| ed65c22 | Well,' I said. 'I could strip off my clothes and reveal to you that under my jeans and sweatshirt I'm actually wearing a tank top and short-shorts, much like Lara Croft from ...only mine are flame-retardant and covered in glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers.' No one stirred. Not even Christopher, who actually has a thing for Lara Croft. 'I know what you're thinking,' I went on. 'Glow-in-the-dark dinosaur stickers are last year. But I thi.. | humor emerson meg | Meg Cabot | |
| 8698acd | Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard. | David Levithan | ||
| 0354f65 | you'd think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it's painful. | silence | David Levithan | |
| 9c406dd | A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4119b59 | I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari--I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful. | humor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 52d3327 | How was I supposed to know that you let two little bears hurt you, Goldilocks?" "Ah, yes, that mouth. I missed it. All mine now." | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4ee1dbe | l(a le af fa ll s)o ne li | poem | e.e. cummings | |
| b5159b5 | I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. Did you take it?" Would I be calling you if I had?" Maybe," I said. He laughed. True, but I'm not going to take it." Why not?" Friendship." Try again," I said. I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." Comforting..." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| d7c7d5d | This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think. | infinite-worlds worlds neil-gaiman infinite | Neil Gaiman | |
| e2560d2 | Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| c6be5f6 | Love without sacrifice is like theft | marriage true-love relationships sacrifice love marriage-advice passive-aggressive passive-aggressiveness narcissists manipulation real-love narcissism | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| d436cdb | Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. | sex erotic porn | Alan Moore |