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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 727d199 | I wasn't being a git. I wasn't even being a twat, or a wanker, or any of your other bleeding Briticisms - | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e5d3a1f | Words are loneliness. | words | Henry Miller | |
| 43a1023 | So here's the truth - I love you. I love everything about you - the way you stick up for people even when it costs you. The way you keep trying to do the right thing even when you're not exactly sure what the right thing is. I love how you put words together. You're as skilled with words as any knife fighter with a blade. You can put an enemy down on his back, or you can raise people up so they find what's best in themselves. You've changed.. | love raisa | Cinda Williams Chima | |
| 73f2947 | Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture. | philosophy taggart objectivism | Ayn Rand | |
| fec5bb6 | If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 3140bf8 | The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears. | romance music | Nora Roberts | |
| 019a66d | Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 87c6193 | It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped. | sleep sadness insomnia restlessness | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 6627209 | Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett--I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold! | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| afa1766 | I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 514dc3d | Real, sane, mature love--the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school--is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 094c38e | Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it? | Thomas Harris | ||
| a57d972 | Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place. | Colum McCann | ||
| 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 .. | eve-rosser michael-glass claire-danvers 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 | ||
| cd0f445 | If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago... | self-loathing self-hatred | Cheri Huber | |
| a057391 | How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time. | time life | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 30af44b | Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing. | Stephen King | ||
| 97e5bda | Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK. - Jane | humor insane-in-the-membrane | J.R. Ward | |
| 76566ea | the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world | indianapolis cancer hazel-grace tfios the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| f41a662 | Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the.. | life importance value humble scripture worry | Anonymous | |
| 0bb9d90 | Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?" | kool-aid toga percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 7e1cb20 | The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; | devil horror | Charles Baudelaire | |
| 0e821be | Beware the ides of March. | warning foreshadowing julius-ceasar | William Shakespeare | |
| cadc58d | You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself. | 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 life-lessons optimism life inspirational improvement | Roy T. Bennett | |
| c418dec | Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must -- at that moment -- become the center of the universe. | human-rights responsibility inspirational | Elie Wiesel | |
| 2b1464b | The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. | inspirational achievement goal artist | William Faulkner | |
| 021fab8 | We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 21e36d1 | If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| fafabc3 | I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| d1429ff | With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. | reading happiness | Haruki Murakami | |
| 1310fb2 | I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5deae0f | What's this?" Nick said. "Bedtime?" No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. "You look positively content, Clayton," Nick continued, thumping down on the floor. "That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Elena is cuddled up with you, would it?" "It's cold in here," I murmured. "Doesn't feel cold." "It's cold," Clay growled. "I could start a fire." "I could start one, too," Clay said. "With your clothes. Before you get them off.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 7f94230 | I struggled to find the words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them. When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been. My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d65c02c | I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe. | Maya Angelou | ||
| b915429 | And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 23f1162 | Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. | vegetarian food | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 364b3df | If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. | science | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| 13f4214 | The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come. | hopelessness worry | J R R Tolkien |