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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 266d03b | There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. | extremism fanaticism god inhumanity justification religion | Margaret Atwood | |
| b6a94f3 | I like seeing people when they can't see me. | seeing | Dodie Smith | |
| 40e3773 | I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee | Ian McEwan | ||
| ac34d89 | For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that's why I've put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I'm no great runner, by any means. I'm at an ordinary - or perhaps more like mediocre - level. But that's not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance runn.. | running self | Haruki Murakami | |
| d93278a | Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chance.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7a93aae | Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e77830d | I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart. | loss | Jodi Picoult | |
| d924b6d | There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. | soul | Oscar Wilde | |
| e3b2dda | Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b3459aa | Man, he wasn't going to need a stress test anytime soon. If his heart could get through a kiss from her, he could probably run a marathon. While dragging a car behind him. Sideways to the road. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 80714b6 | Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate." | humor | John Green | |
| 20cad26 | Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 584af5f | Glaring at the doctor, Kev spoke in Romany. (I'm going to shit on you.) "Which means," Rohan said hastily, "'Please forgive the misunderstanding; let's part as friends.'" Kev added for good measure. (May you die of a malignant wasting disease.) "Roughly translated," Rohan said, "that means, 'May your garden be filled with fine, fat hedgehogs.' Which, I may add, is considered quite a blessing among the Rom." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 4896d4e | I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 097dda5 | O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? | insomniac | William Shakespeare | |
| 2909361 | Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear. | inspirational | Patrick Rothfuss | |
| cdbce2c | None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. | inspirational self-determination self-expression | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 9174948 | At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you. | inspirational | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| 4397a30 | What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are -- and who we will become. | inspirational | Dieter F. Uchtdorf | |
| 5147167 | Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. | inspirational life | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 25918c1 | But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time. The writhing loathsomeness of the biological order. Old age, sickness, death. No escape for anyone. Even the beautiful ones were like soft fruit about to spoil. And yet somehow people still kept fucking and breeding and popping out new fodder for the g.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 412a563 | The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. Because of them I rode with Don Quixote and danced with Anna Karenina at a ball in St. Petersburg and lassoed a steer in "Lonesome Dove" and had nightmares about slavery in "Beloved" and walked the streets of Dublin in "U.. | english literature reading teachers | Pat Conroy | |
| 9eaf152 | Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 689a2bb | I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. | death-and-dying death-of-a-loved-one love mother | Mitch Albom | |
| db448e6 | Wait. Let me guess. You're giving me the cold shoulder, right?" With that, she sighed. "Shouldn't you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?" He laughed. "That's funny. I'll have to remember that." "I'm not being funny. I'm being serious." "Oh, because we're so good-looking" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c4ae5fa | You were never poor as long as you had something to love. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0b9f6c8 | In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time. | Michael Chabon | ||
| cc4c255 | To light a candle is to cast a shadow... | equilibrium evil good knowledge taoism | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f908a07 | You can be a pawn, be someone's reward, and spend the rest of your immortal life bowing and scraping and pretending you're less than him, than Ianthe, than any of us. If you want to pick that road, then fine. A shame, but it's your choice." The shadow of wings rippled again. "But I know you--more than you realize, I think--and I don't believe for one damn minute that you're remotely fine with being a pretty trophy for someone who sat on his.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7a51fb0 | The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also quite shocking!) and I noticed she had a mouth, so we ended up talking. We talked about flowers, and her poetry classes, and the problems she'd have if she ever wore glasses. It's great to know a girl who has so many eyes, | poetry | Tim Burton | |
| a0f0785 | That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning. | Richard Bach | ||
| 47e3378 | Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. | innocence self-acceptance | Joan Didion | |
| 495e28e | You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. | surrender | Rick Warren | |
| 7fdbfbd | Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? | Jane Austen | ||
| 2394e5e | Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was. | memory | Marilynne Robinson | |
| a80015c | Whatever it is," I said, "the point is moot because as long as I'm on these pills, I can't make contact to ask." Derek ... snapped, "Then you need to stop taking the pills." Love to. If I could. But after what happened last night, they're giving me urine tests now." Ugh. That's harsh." Simon went quiet, then snapped his fingers. Hey, I've got an idea. It's kinda gross, but what if you take the pills, crush them and mix them with your, you k.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 9547ec0 | You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait." | trisiel | Kelley Armstrong | |
| ce674d7 | I belong wherever I want to be. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| f2f9443 | If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself." She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. "Miiiiiiiiine!" he says. "Cut it out." Anna pushes him off, laughing. "You'll get fired. And then I'll have to support your sorry arse for the rest of our lives." | etienne-st-clair romance | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 43fa239 | Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away. | Homer | ||
| 06e9d89 | Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground. | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 04b600d | What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel So am I.'- Rudy | kisses liesel rudy | Markus Zusak | |
| 09d1c0d | They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. | death war | Markus Zusak | |
| e792161 | I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off." | excuse mental-ward people | Ned Vizzini |