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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| fb3c6b2 | Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth. | Yann Martel | ||
| bdb9051 | I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 901f7e7 | In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong. | tolerance | Paulo Coelho | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| bf458e4 | The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ecdec38 | The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't .. | Bob Dylan | ||
| 943a646 | Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other's bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love - think what deep though invisible tr.. | memories | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 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." | orion-fowl atlantis-complex eoin-colfer | 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 | poem courage poetry pets | Charles Bukowski | |
| 9173706 | What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes." | irony sex writing funny humor bukowski smoke alcohol cigarettes authors ironic writing-process drink writers sarcasm | 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. | moving-on goodbyes growing-up | Emily Giffin | |
| 9c030a9 | You're a good guy, Thorne." She paused. "Well, you have your moments." | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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" | dark view-point comedy | 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. | romance humor jane vampire paranormal | 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 put-downs percy-jackson rick-riordan insults | 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." | libraries librarians | Terry Pratchett | |
| cb22334 | Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. | bravery perseverance courage inspirational 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. | friendship inspirational flowers | Georgia O'Keeffe | |
| 363f597 | Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 7170484 | I needed to get a grip. Or a camera to memorialize this moment, because I bet I could make a money from a video of him. I could make a fortune... As long as he didn't open his mouth. | katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 47461d2 | His eyes searched mine. "Thank you." "For What?" I loved the feel of his arms around me and how I fit against him, hard against soft. He trailed his fingers over my arm, and I was amazed by how he could make me shiver. "For everything," he said." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b3f8f19 | Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event. | Milan Kundera | ||
| e4845a2 | No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. | time-passing oblivion | Haruki Murakami | |
| 368a86c | Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 19eb5ac | We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies. | inspirational | Emily Dickinson |