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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 22c7436 | Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. | inspirational creativity | Pablo Picasso | |
| b8b3f42 | I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| d54ee02 | There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 3895c5f | After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. | thanksgiving food | Oscar Wilde | |
| feb0e4f | We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e56893f | Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| f0b8a25 | I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray." -- | clary-fray jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 074e574 | God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!" | percy-jackson dionysus | Rick Riordan | |
| 564e6b8 | We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now." "I was going to watch Project Runway." | humor clary jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2d9a703 | All thinking men are atheists. | inspirational atheism | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 9c0671f | The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. | wisdom inspirational ambition | Maya Angelou | |
| d2f68b1 | She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. | mourning suffering sorrow sadness | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 9463e1a | Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. | literature freedom inspirational | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 07add09 | If I should have a daughter..."Instead of "Mom", she's gonna call me "Point B." Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say "Oh, I know that like the back of my hand. | poem inspirational | Sarah Kay | |
| f179b0f | You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 863b87d | Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 9a10ab9 | But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared. Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at t.. | humor mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1bd74b6 | Jace?" "Yeah?" "How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could tell?" The elevator arrived with a final groan. Jace unlatched the gate and slid it open. The inside reminded Clary of a birdcage, all black metal and decorative bits of gilt. "I guessed," he said, latching the door behind them. "It seemed like the most likely explanation." "You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed m.. | 90 elevator shadowhunter clary-fray jace-wayland knowledge blood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4445ea8 | Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 19df227 | My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! | romeo-and-juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| 234bde9 | If I should have a daughter..."Instead of "Mom", she's gonna call me "Point B." Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say "Oh, I know that like the back of my hand." She's gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back.. | poem | Sarah Kay | |
| d05bc4f | People, generally, suck. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 9f80f06 | Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?" "Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interupted. "No swearing in church." | swear clary-fray jace-wayland church | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2b0f782 | If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. | inspirational | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8fe7b1f | Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| f5b4086 | God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companio.. | loneliness | Sylvia Plath | |
| a9b8dc2 | Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 998f748 | Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. | life | George R.R. Martin | |
| 332636c | It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| acdf961 | It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do. | Jane Austen | ||
| df8f3f1 | The course of true love never did run smooth. | true-love | William Shakespeare | |
| 23c117d | there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and | inspirational | Charles bukowski | |
| 60609e0 | I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 1fc6961 | Sebastian just smiled. "I could hear your heart beating," he said softly. "When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?" "That you seem to be dating my dad?" Jace shrugged. "You're a little young for him, to be honest." "What?" For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted." | valentine-morgenstern jace-wayland sebastian realization sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
| 317caa5 | I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't. | Albert Camus | ||
| 3ecd1fc | Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you." | literature inspirational | Charlotte Brontë | |
| b882ead | That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can. | holden | J.D. Salinger | |
| 56a16e8 | Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3350b81 | The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. | unhappy-life unhappiness freedom inspirational-attitude inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspirational society | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 6646f66 | I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world will be When winter comes without a spring That I shall ever see For still there are so many things That I have never seen In every wood in every spring There is a d.. | time | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7052a95 | What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. | John Green | ||
| 7aa896c | I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 9803527 | People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. | life-humor | Bill Watterson | |
| 669832a | But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards. | funny dumbledore fame | J.K. Rowling |