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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 05d8459 | Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast fl.. | music humor truth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 8a444cb | The future is just wasted on some people. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1530317 | I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 155e5ff | Let's go rattle the stars. | queen-of-shadows sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6a4aad5 | And exactly how old are you MacRieve ?" "Twelve hundreds, give or take." "Great Hekate, you're a relic. Don't you have a museum exhibit to be in somewhere ?" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0d5b941 | All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' -- which is just another way of saying that you can't. | success humor inspirational failure | Richard P. Feynman | |
| 6fa466f | She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. | unspoken together | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a042bcb | Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| e977bec | You know what's a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. -- Tiny Cooper | David Levithan | ||
| 9cf7791 | I love you above all things, even pie. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 482303a | Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| ddf4cd5 | How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 44bc7e3 | Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. | reading life escapism | Ruth Rendell | |
| c105cff | Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys. | humor tyrion-lannister jaime-lannister game-of-thrones a-storm-of-swords humorous-quotes | George R.R. Martin | |
| c5c2a97 | Isn't your mom the goddess of inventors?" I asked. Annabeth glared at me. "Yes, but this is different. I'm good with . Not Mechanics." If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head," I said "I'd pick you." I just blurted it out - to give her confidence, I guess - but immediately I realized it sounded pretty stupid. A ..." Silena sniffled and wiped her eyes. "Percy that is sweet!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6c2c4fe | Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances; a head full of negative thoughts has no space for positive ones. | 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 negative | Roy T. Bennett | |
| cd656a3 | I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. | politics humor wisdom inspirational slander | Margaret Thatcher | |
| 10c194a | Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. | inspirational believe | Christian D. Larson | |
| 1a48060 | To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. | inspirational | Stephen Covey | |
| 832d5a1 | And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again. | pain inspirational healing | Jack Canfield | |
| fe8a283 | And he says I have lousy timing | the-reackoning derek | Kelley Armstrong | |
| e65f3a8 | We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 5634c70 | Do you know my biggest regret?" She asks. "That you turned into this bright, beautiful, fascinating person... and I can't take credit for any of it." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d211085 | You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! | Charles Dickens | ||
| c35b9fe | All wisdom ends in paradox. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 874c653 | Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2ca9d57 | A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3368e21 | Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid. "You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore. "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling." | harry-potter hp | J.K. Rowling | |
| d03b0b6 | No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8cba158 | By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself. | time choke | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| b102f46 | I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete -- that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 001fe1f | His breath caught, harsh enough that she looked over her shoulder. But his eyes weren't on her face. Or the water. They were on her bare back. Curled as she was against her knees, he could see the whole expanse of ruined flesh, each scar from the lashing. "Who did that to you?" It would have been easy to lie, but she was so tired, and he had saved her useless hide. So she said, "A lot of people. I spent some time in the Salt Mines of Endovi.. | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b3dd926 | Night Triumphant - and the Stars Eternal. If he was the sweet, terrifying darkness, I was the glittering light that only his shadows could make clear. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e8aea28 | You are afraid to die, and you're afraid to live. What a way to exist. | live existence | Neale Donald Walsch | |
| 575efb0 | Max," she said. He turned and briefly closed his eyes as the girl continued. There was once a strange, small man,"she said. Her arms were loose but her hands were fists at her side. "But there was a word shaker,too." One of the Jews on his way to Dachau had stopped walking now. He stood absolutely still as the others swerved morosely around him, leaving him completely alone. His eyes staggered, and it was so simple. The words were given ac.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 00dcb3f | if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people. | hate love | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 8c3a0b8 | I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. I would have loved you more if I had sat in a small room rolling a cigarette and listened to you piss in the bathroom, but that didn't happen. your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| f824f59 | Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front-- | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d047570 | If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons. | sky | Ilona Andrews | |
| e34ddcf | I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character | P.C. Cast | ||
| 546be14 | This isn't about what is . . . it's about what people is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a6412b0 | Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. | time | T.S. Eliot | |
| 371fd84 | You've such a lovely temperature. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0706ac0 | So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too. | women kurt-vonnegut manipulation girls machines thinking | Kurt Vonnegut |