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| a7a4a11 | Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9e42389 | Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. | the-past | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 035cb9d | Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. | dreams education intelligence choke lethargy palahniuk sloth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| f9fb5fe | I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 858d0c3 | Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you. | inspirational | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| ee56aae | You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ad607e0 | No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. | relationships life love domination | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 00dde4a | The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 50d9086 | Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 77c7dc0 | The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f0f597d | That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose. Try it sometime. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, a.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 796300e | It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache." | motherhood | Betty Smith | |
| e01207e | Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the .. | world god love truth inspirational speak peace | Neale Donald Walsch | |
| a73a0df | It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? | inspirational industriousness purpose | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7529d83 | Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| d015506 | Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 930c8fd | Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well .. | feminism philosophy | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 4fc4a5b | Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| d4a47da | After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to .. | love | Charles Bukowski | |
| 013cc34 | some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight. | poetry life | Charles Bukowski | |
| 766b396 | I hope that death contains less than this. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| adf2ae1 | Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." | love immaturity maturity need | Erich Fromm | |
| 4024b59 | I surveyed the rest of the Council and looked directly at Mahon. "Some of you know me. Some of you have seen me fight and some of you are my friends. Have your vote. But know this: if you come to remove me, come in force, because if you try to separate me from him, I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake. My aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you"ll see before you die." I jammed the knife into the table and wa.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 503ce1e | But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place. | life-lessons humor wisdom life-sucks random | J.R. Ward | |
| 7d0511b | Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food. | gender-roles | John Green | |
| 1839b4f | that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. | John Green | ||
| b9a4802 | Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are. | tiny-cooper will-grayson | John Green | |
| 6f8f0df | My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 6f4bb70 | Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow. There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, "Beatrice." He laughs weakly. "Beatrice," he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt." | tris-prior | Veronica Roth | |
| 4efe0c3 | The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin. | ending | Alan Moore | |
| eab3e68 | And you, Percy, are my favorite son. | sibling-rivalry poseidon percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| a82826e | Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8ae18cd | Da. This is going very well already." Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?" Mouse sneezed. "Eight," Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, "And the psycho death faerie makes it nine." "It is like movie," Sanya said, nodding. "Dibs on Legolas." "Are you kidding?" Thomas said. "I'm obviously Legolas. You're . . ." He squinted thoughtf.. | humor mouse leanansidhe karrin-murphy sanya thomas-raith molly-carpenter harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 232cd19 | Da. This is going very well already." Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?" Mouse sneezed. "Eight," Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, "And the psycho death faerie makes it nine." "It is like movie," Sanya said, nodding. "Dibs on Legolas." "Are you kidding?" Thomas said. "I'm obviously Legolas. You're . . ." He squinted thoughtf.. | humor mouse leanansidhe karrin-murphy sanya thomas-raith molly-carpenter harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 2640bed | And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5a33734 | Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ea43c1c | Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it, and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Of.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dc605f7 | Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! | motivational success life inspirational self-empowerment emotions | Steve Maraboli | |
| d04d6e3 | And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love. | love-read | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 55d35fc | What's it going to be then, eh? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 94a41fc | Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it. | handle betrayal | Christine Feehan | |
| 17a3c15 | Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity. | James Clavell | ||
| bf1e8f0 | And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f6c4cfe | Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. | James Joyce |