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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| a80f9ae | You haven't been bit till a dragon does it. | daine kitten dragon | Tamora Pierce | |
| 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.. | literature reading teachers english | Pat Conroy | |
| 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 | rudy liesel kisses | 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. | war death | 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." | people mental-ward excuse | Ned Vizzini | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 91373a8 | I don't like people. They fuck me up. | jake | Stephen King | |
| bec357f | The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. | science life philosophy | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 2646b6b | It's the eternal struggle, Pudge. The good versus the naughty. ... Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war. | John Green | ||
| 3dd1a5a | Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river. | looking-for-alaska | John Green Looking for Alaska | |
| ff9d316 | I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 673357d | I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows. | life pieces | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 11e7c1c | One choice can transform you. | insurgent divergent tris-prior veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| af304c4 | Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. | history | Alan Moore | |
| d85986e | I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not tears. | strong-women fierce | George R.R. Martin | |
| 479b4de | The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle. | simile | Rick Riordan | |
| edc3530 | Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything. | the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| 2a95be0 | There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward. | life | Jim Butcher | |
| 63b5cc4 | Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes. | religion humor harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| a51d53a | I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. | William Shakespeare | ||
| b05dca6 | War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their .. | injustice war morality motivational inspirational patriotic foreign-policy selfish ethics justice tyranny will safety fight | John Stuart Mill | |
| 3020f8a | Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. | life inspirational challenges | Helen Keller | |
| 05b3dd3 | The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. | inspirational | Walter Bagehot | |
| 5e359b8 | If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange--meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| ba33b58 | Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy. | humor kane-chronicles | Rick Riordan | |
| 113439a | I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8a6f0c2 | He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder. | wonder wisdom foolish | Tad Williams | |
| 87a2f08 | Let me tell you what you feel like when you know you are ready to die. You sleep a lot, and when you wake up the very first thought in your head is that you wish you could go back to bed. You go entire days without eating, because food is a commodity that keeps you here. You read the same page a hundred times. You rewind your life like a videocassette and see the things that make you weep, things that make you pause, but nothing that makes .. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1c6101f | Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home | Jodi Picoult | ||
| eb3ba03 | And so the lion fell in love with the lamb. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8f4a4b2 | We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 133dc64 | A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 68e4f3a | As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours. | inspirational believe | Mark Helprin | |
| 8403a20 | Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. | unhappiness wealth | Ayn Rand | |
| b57477f | No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| e539357 | Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise... | love politeness fire | Emma Thompson | |
| f2965b1 | Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege." | Truman Capote | ||
| cfd6e2d | A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. | men women love maltreatment mistreatment sherlock-holmes separation | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| dc688d8 | Most men will not swim before they are able to." Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown." | Hermann Hesse |