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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b69153a | For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste. In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed. In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them. In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path. In solitude, they will learn that saying .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 18703b4 | I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 7b21e59 | Celaena Sardothien wasn't in league with Aelin Ashryver Galathynius. Celaena Sardothien was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir to the throne and rightful Queen of Terranes. Celaena was Aelin Galathynius, the greatest living threat to Adarlan, the one person who could raise an army capable of standing against the king. Now, she was also the one person who knew the secret source of the king's power--and who sought a way to destroy it. And he ha.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 96e6321 | when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because | reasoning | E.E. Cummings | |
| 6559855 | Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 35be297 | I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment... | existentialist nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 0a05865 | The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 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 | ||
| 7416994 | Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 2d260a1 | Thanks. I forgot how to flip off the English. I'll use the correct hand gesture next time." "My pleasure. Always happy to educate." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ffd51b2 | So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof." | maxride | James Patterson | |
| 3e9254c | Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me.. | woman | Maya Angelou | |
| 9173706 | What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes." | alcohol authors bukowski cigarettes drink funny humor ironic irony sarcasm sex smoke writers writing writing-process | Charles Bukowski | |
| 40f3f69 | Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 31a4cdf | He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side. | goodbyes growing-up moving-on | Emily Giffin | |
| 9c030a9 | You're a good guy, Thorne." She paused. "Well, you have your moments." | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 679a65a | Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction." | atlantis-complex eoin-colfer orion-fowl | Eoin Colfer | |
| 652ff41 | Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment." | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8b13f68 | when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my | courage pets poem poetry | Charles Bukowski | |
| 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 | ||
| 6981b9c | I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 9a9ff6e | Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you. | jaunty | Neil Gaiman | |
| 3373d9e | Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 2de4968 | The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage "That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury" | comedy dark view-point | J.R. Ward | |
| 6cea065 | Tell you what, you let me go, and I'll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I'm slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me. | humor jane paranormal romance vampire | J.R. Ward | |
| 63c773c | Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| c1db77f | Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Girl" are kind of lame insults." | demigod demigod-files insults percy-jackson put-downs rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| e4f4b25 | The heart is a The thousand-stringed instrument That can only be tuned with Love. | hafiz | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī | |
| 675c4a6 | I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me. | Holly Black | ||
| 49b4db5 | I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. | moon | Charles Baudelaire | |
| 4100dd9 | People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins." | librarians libraries | Terry Pratchett | |
| cb22334 | Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. | bravery courage inspirational perseverance trial | John Quincy Adams | |
| 3b67cb5 | Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. | flowers friendship inspirational | Georgia O'Keeffe | |
| 4f42a0d | truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 510fba5 | He would see that world reborn, even if it took his last breath. Even if he had no name now, no position or title save Oath-Breaker, Traitor, Liar. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3adea99 | But I couldn't ... I couldn't stop being around you, and loving you, and wanting you. I still can't stay away. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f732810 | I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do." | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 6138dc8 | Michael rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, "I vant to drink your blood" in a heavy, fake-Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen. You sabotaged me!" Kim yelled, dropped the controller, and smacked him hard on the chest. "I can't believe you just totally sabotaged me!" Can't let him lose," Michael said, as Shane hit the high score .. | claire-danvers eve-rosser michael-glass morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| fdf89ff | Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| d83f61c | A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face. | Jorge Luis Borges |