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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c8c6a63 | One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. | passion | James Joyce | |
| f1e88e8 | Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. | daring risk courage seeking uncertainty questions knowledge | Anne Rice | |
| 1e04587 | Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? | Amy Tan | ||
| 33a7f0a | We all owe death a life. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 83bfe9e | It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? | jane-austen mr-collins | Jane Austen | |
| a0cb349 | Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for? | Julian Barnes | ||
| cf1c0b2 | As soon as we are alone,...inner chaos opens up in us. This chaos can be so disturbing and so confusing that we can hardly wait to get busy again. Entering a private room and shutting the door, therefore, does not mean that we immediatel;y shut ou all our iner doubts, anxieities, fears, bad memories, unresolved conflicts, angry feelings and impulsive desires. On the contrary, when we have removed our outer distraction, we often find that ou.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| afe7195 | I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance. | war marriage education young-women bright country smart | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 133183e | I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. | love message-in-a-bottle nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| cb56194 | Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love. | romance nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| fd54348 | Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over? | love the-wedding nicholas-sparks sparks nicholas chance | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 3f73812 | You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f1844a5 | I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. | siddhartha knowledge question | Hermann Hesse | |
| 659b35a | Why should I be scared of an oversized bat who likes to throw temper tantrums? | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7e3e61d | She was not becoming anything different from what she always was and always had the capacity to be. You just finally saw everything. And once you saw that other part of her... You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. Just as you cannot pick which parts of me you accept. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6362784 | One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7a9eb36 | I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands. | unrequited-love | Francesca Lia Block | |
| f7f18ec | You confuse not speaking with not listening. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 9bfaf69 | my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned. | David Mitchell | ||
| 0a5737a | Her only way home was to betray her friend. | friend | Scott Westerfeld | |
| cdc13a9 | Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8a5fe30 | Every moment before this one depends on this one. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 1174e41 | Because," said Thor, "when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki's fault. It saves a lot of time." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0456b1a | We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to. | John Green | ||
| 986427d | And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe. | John Green | ||
| 5e853f3 | It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it." | paper-towns | John Green | |
| e1b6c3c | Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. | pain emotion insurgent divergent tears | Veronica Roth | |
| 865233b | The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome. | fear-unknown unseen unknown | George R.R. Martin | |
| a05666d | To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 4552e35 | Coach Hedge yelled,"Thar she blows! Kansas, ahoy!" "Holy Hephaestus," Leo muttered. "He really needs to work on his shipspeak." | humor kansas ships heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 136aac7 | Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out! | funny leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 816f89f | I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious - So kiss me. | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez | ||
| d3b4ab0 | Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4d5fd4c | Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5a519e3 | You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. | bravery inspirational autism | Matthew Dicks | |
| 27dfed5 | If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will. | action motivational success life inspirational knowing believe | Steve Maraboli | |
| b873925 | They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? | inspirational | Jeanette Winterson | |
| c1947d5 | We join spokes together in a wheel | poetry love philosophy inspirational | Lao Tzu | |
| 16bf616 | When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 25ce871 | I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all." | Nick Hornby | ||
| 8410c1c | People always want to know what it feels like, so I'll tell you: there's a sting when you first slice, and then your heart speeds up when you see the blood, because you know you've done something you shouldn't have, and yet you've gotten away with it. Then you sort of go into a trance, because it's truly dazzling--that bright red line, like a highway route on a map that you want to follow to see where it leads. And--God--the sweet release, .. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0efd78f | Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9cd6915 | All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| f0d7d16 | It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. | Lewis Carroll |