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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | |
| db3521a | False hopes are more dangerous than fears. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1b230c2 | The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this. | David Levithan | ||
| 720c191 | She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him. | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 365ffb3 | If this emperor thing doesn't work out, you might have a future career in espionage. | Marissa Meyer | ||
| e3a05ed | You are so... 11:59 | fantasy horror midnighters science-fiction | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 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. | happiness reading | 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 | ||
| 29000a9 | Nothing's changed. You'll go home. You'll be bored. You'll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You're too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don't even get your name right. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c6f650a | Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to the winds an enchantment potion that draws the opposite sex, wings beating hurriedly, from kilometers away; peacocks display a devastating corona of blue and green and the peahens are all aflutter; competing pollen grains extrude tiny tubes that race each other down the female flower's orifice to .. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 6249424 | Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. | satire shakespeare | Oscar Wilde | |
| 03d3175 | All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 0637abc | Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of, the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends, and a more-than minor life. And then i screwed up and the Colonel screwed up.. | forgiven forgiving forgotten labyrinth letter note pudge sorry | John Green | |
| 9ce4967 | They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each o.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 470beea | If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change | happiness oromis-to-eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| 3ac70e0 | Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not. | Susan Cain | ||
| 0dd87dd | I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS. | death | Terry Pratchett | |
| 457294e | Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. | inspirational tom-hiddleston | Tom Hiddleston | |
| 15720d0 | Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm | inspirational | Winston Churchill | |
| c1d94ca | Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair | inspirational | Bertrand Russell | |
| dd37a3c | To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again. | friendship heartbreak inspirational | Kristin Hannah | |
| 5c35e7c | First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead | Stephen King | ||
| a03faa8 | never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh. | Stephen King | ||
| c703593 | Distance can ruin even the best of intentions. But I suppose it depends on how you look at it. Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get. People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself.. | nicholas-sparks the-rescue | Nicholas Sparks | |
| c9f7aa4 | In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about wh.. | life living-in-the-moment past present time | Paulo Coelho | |
| e51e7b6 | She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d95936b | My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer. | love | Paulo Coelho | |
| d4f2940 | She was fury, she was wrath, she was vengeance. | ghost-leopard lysandra vengeance wrath | Sarah J. Maas | |
| c324b88 | I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense. | morganville-vampires myrnin | Rachel Caine | |
| 661808c | Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 6427344 | If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 1e9857f | Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will. | inspirational love truth | V.C. Andrews | |
| b57a9c8 | I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more...never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| f3c8aef | To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. | civic-responsibility history humanity life mankind responsibility | David McCullough | |
| 4fdcccd | The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. | Albert Camus | ||
| 6aef6c6 | If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray. | James Patterson | ||
| 8e39c8c | There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious. | Donna Tartt |