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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0ee3734 | Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. | novelist science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| dc395a4 | It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 047f412 | We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. | inspirational | Philip Pullman | |
| 68b5b11 | To survive, you must tell stories. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 2600c24 | Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 71c4205 | I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. | happy sad | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 3401b84 | I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly. | ian jamie jared melanie uncle-jeb wanda | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 960d3a0 | It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. | John Green | ||
| 23e7f8b | Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat u.. | Harper Lee | ||
| b068711 | You'll get over it..." It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it" is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want .. | love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 73318c2 | Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat u.. | Harper Lee | ||
| 1863688 | A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me. | war | Markus Zusak | |
| f0bc2df | Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now. | happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living living-now optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 721d3c3 | I'm going to keep going until I succeed -- or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 485b4ac | Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. | advice-for-daily-living inspirational positive-attitude | Walt Whitman | |
| 6722497 | Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| db5c46a | When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. | life inspirational | John Green | |
| f2389c5 | However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? | inspirational | Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni | |
| 062461a | He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 67a3300 | Words were different when they lived inside of you. | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | ||
| 5742a05 | I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God. | John Green | ||
| 7983027 | there is a place in the heart tha | death inspirational | Charles bukowski | |
| 750fdcc | A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living." | living | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 4d0b2d1 | Don't let the muggles get you down. | muggles wit | J.K. Rowling | |
| 77e88af | Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. | courage inspirational strength | Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| 5a61c32 | If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| b2c3ba3 | When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7c40127 | Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. | life mind stories youth | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8e74265 | Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay." | divergent funny humor tris veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 10ca7f7 | If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 7f520d4 | The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. | mormont | George R.R. Martin | |
| 52a093c | I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand. | love true universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | |
| 565ed3a | And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0434be0 | A short story is a different thing altogether - a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger. | writing | Stephen King | |
| da3fed4 | I hate men who are afraid of women's strength. | feminism woman women-s-strenth | Anaïs Nin | |
| 6f31d09 | I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know? | sadness suicide | Ned Vizzini | |
| c915243 | If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. "No, I won't let you." "Trust me," I whisper. He holds my gaze for a long moment then lets go. I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. "On the count of three?" Peeta leans down and kisses me once, very gently. "The coun.. | Suzanne Collins | ||
| 86c293b | Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 0aa210f | Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! | inspirational | Maya Angelou | |
| f0ec91a | You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4422f12 | Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?" "Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..." She shudders and shakes her head. "Terrifying," Will says with mock seriousness. "That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls." "Oh, Shut up." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 28eb7f9 | To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9da26f0 | But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise." -- | misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt | Stephen R. Covey | |
| a96c603 | Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path. No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded. Other people think exactly .. | Paulo Coelho |