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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0d40e80 | So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 614ae69 | You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer." | peanut-butter olympians tyson percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 9ef88fa | When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. | loneliness | George R.R. Martin | |
| d329879 | Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c35124f | Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. | grief inspirational | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 7ef7540 | Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. | self | Toni Morrison | |
| 6ea6a34 | Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. | parents | Oscar Wilde | |
| d0abf7c | If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. | life awareness | Leo Tolstoy | |
| f75f15d | Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| cae2abd | There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. | wisdom | Paulo Coelho | |
| a855e19 | I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| f5b8a3f | You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face | poetry philosophy james-bond haiku | Ian Fleming | |
| 47af446 | The question is not what you look at, but what you see. | inspirational | Henry David Thoreau | |
| fb82c4a | Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. | David Mitchell | ||
| b4bd1c0 | What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. | Tennessee Williams | ||
| 4f1486e | Demon pox, oh demon pox Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired. Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along-- Not the pox, you foolish blocks, I mean this very song-- For I was right, and you were wrong!" "Will!" Charlotte shouted over the noise, "Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! Jem--" Jem, rising to his feet, clapped his hands over Will's mouth. "Do you promise to be .. | pox will | Cassandra Clare | |
| dff8713 | But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does. | John Green | ||
| 6cedd6f | Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d'yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn't you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig's tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge' the details," Hagrid chortled." | harry-potter humor hagrid dursley pig wizard | J.K. Rowling | |
| 98a4e64 | What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. | inspirational | Doris Lessing | |
| dc030e4 | No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. | grief sorrow | C.S. Lewis | |
| 0c26cca | Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. | fear human-nature | Dan Brown | |
| 0d043b6 | The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3251f04 | To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5f3afcf | Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true. | sadness music | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| e396bc7 | Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself. | love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 80696c7 | When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been asked this question hundreds of times over the years, and I remember once early on when I couldn't get my breath and it felt like my chest was on fire, flames licking the inside of my ribs fighting for a way to burn out of my body, my parents took .. | John Green | ||
| 5d04ae4 | A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 52213f3 | We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| c966c5a | A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. | time science life inspirational dare value waste | Charles Darwin | |
| 1bf0bb7 | Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. | inspirational | Norman Vincent Peale | |
| 7fb55c5 | Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. | honesty truth | George R.R. Martin | |
| 4fd5ff1 | Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane | morganvillevampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 7bf35d2 | Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. | learning leadership 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 success life-lessons optimism life inspirational improvement | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 21ce218 | He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain. | words meaning patience | Markus Zusak | |
| 0761f54 | It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. | self-sacrifice | Charles Dickens | |
| d0606b4 | Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4ef79e2 | This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. | love | David Nicholls | |
| 5ed0ae8 | There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it. | inspirational-quotes life-lessons robert-foster | Judith McNaught | |
| 2f44d6a | Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 839b734 | There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for. | war misattributed-to-albert-camus pacifism principles | Albert Dietrich | |
| c89e75e | You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. | pain harry-potter hurt | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2b2717c | We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence | books inspirational | Philip Pullman | |
| 72c4a71 | Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war | John Green | ||
| 2d53e9e | To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. | T.S. Eliot |