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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 69ae6dc | More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone. | James Frey | ||
| a7ad24e | The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c137664 | Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet. | subject | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| bbf8dec | Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f123880 | If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear,.. | time science | Bill Bryson | |
| c280d4a | Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 56fd24b | Give her hell from us, Peeves." And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset." | harry-potter george-weasley peeves | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5cde6c8 | When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)" | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3e2c5a0 | All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is. | smartass | Markus Zusak | |
| 86ad085 | if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you. | inspirational personal-development | John C. Maxwell | |
| cc3af85 | She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was... She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to p.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 3312e47 | Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DI.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f7fbda7 | Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. | spirituality | Rebecca Solnit | |
| b91d4a4 | The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 224c3db | The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 2a8f51f | As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. | family-relationships parents-and-children | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6485aba | I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 0741801 | Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets. | Stephen King | ||
| dd826ea | We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. | John Green | ||
| 8a21b9c | To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said. "I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice." | hazel-and-isaac nice | John Green | |
| 96f0969 | He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was .... | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| f29f822 | Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 22aa6d2 | If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for? | love | Lisa Kleypas | |
| c392c7c | Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you.. | Christopher Priest | ||
| 7d78c2f | She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 07ff36a | Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. | Sun Tzu | ||
| de42af9 | To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 1b2aae0 | A cop? You married a bloody cop?" " married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that." -- | eve-dallas | J.D. Robb | |
| fe37d69 | Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid." | humor himself narcissus nymphs tricking hazel-levesque leo-valdez | rick riordan | |
| 386a9b4 | So...these Pillars of Hercules. Are they dangerous?" Annabeth stayed focused on the cliffs. "For Greeks, the pillars marked the end of the known world. The Romans said the pillars were inscribed with a Latin warning--" Percy said. Annabeth looked stunned. "Yeah. . How did you know?" Percy pointed. "Because I'm looking at it." | hercules non-plus-ultra piper-mclean heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| 0e70939 | Leo's voice boomed over the loudspeaker: 'SURRENDER! YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY ONE SPANKING HOT WAR MACHINE!' The giant Enceladus howled in outrage. 'Valdez!' 'WHAT'S UP, ENCHILADAS?' Leo's voice roared back. 'NICE DAGGER IN YOUR FOREHEAD.' 'GAH!' The giant pulled Katoptris out of his head. 'Monsters: destroy that ship! | enceladus leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 733878f | Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me." | humor wit | Jim Butcher | |
| 876af27 | Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile. | humorous smiling insulting | Jim Butcher | |
| 297b5fb | I began to measure things in absence instead of presence. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 49800f4 | You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 42f3830 | Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. | enlightenment spiritual inspirational awakening giving wisdom-quotes service awareness self-realization know-thyself | Ramana Maharshi | |
| c8464a2 | Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found. On my journeys I've seen more joy in the slums of Mumbai and the orphanages of Africa than in wealthy gated communities and on sprawling estates worth millions. Why is that? You'll find contentment when your talen.. | inspirational | Nick Vujicic | |
| 20de803 | you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own | responsibility inspirational resourcefulness accountability self-reliance ownership self-help | Kerry E. Wagner | |
| 4dae2aa | As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action. | inspirational | Eckhart Tolle | |
| 9a1d46a | My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. | henson humor hope life inspirational | Jim Henson | |
| 88fec87 | What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. | inspirational actions deeds work-ethic | Jason Fried | |
| ab519f5 | Don't forget your history nor your destiny | inspirational | Bob Marley | |
| b268228 | There is nothing perfect...only life. | secret life | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| a53ba52 | A cop? You married a bloody cop?" " married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that." | eve-dallas | J.D. Robb |