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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2d3bd0 | I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how long we sat there on the dusty floor, crying in each others arms with the longing of twenty years spilling down our faces. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| da7a58c | Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past a.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 937499e | Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet. Age: five thousand three hundred days. Profession: none, or "starlet" Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze? Why are you hiding, darling? (I Talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling). Where are you riding, Dolores Haze? What make is the magic carpet? Is a Cream Cougar the present craze? And where are you parked, my car pet? Who is your hero, Dolores Haze? Sti.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| ff6fa40 | Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears. | Amy Tan | ||
| 6ba0393 | I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination. | Henry James | ||
| 54fd2a6 | The first thing I notice is his hair - it's the first thing I notice about anyone. It's dark brown and messy and somehow both long and short at the same time. I think of the Beatles, since I've just seen them in Meredith's room. It's artist's hair. Musician hair. I-pretend-I-don't-care-but-I-really-do hair. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6406e4e | Man is what he wills himself to be. | no-exit | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| b3c40d7 | When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that? | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9d44371 | Hey, look -- Harry's got a Weasley sweater, too!" Fred and George were wearing blue sweaters, one with a large yellow F on it, the other a G. "Harry's is better than ours, though," said Fred, holding up Harry's sweater. "She obviously makes more of an effort if you're not family." | harry-potter sweaters | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9f0dbcf | Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere! | petunia-dursley wizards | J.K. Rowling | |
| a9ab85a | What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4ba0617 | A red-gold glow burst suddenly across the enchanted sky above them as an edge of dazzling sun appeared over the sill of the nearest window. The light hit both of their faces at the same time, so that Voldemort's was suddenly a flaming blur. Harry heard the high voice shriek as he too yelled his best hope to the heavens, pointing Draco's wand: "Avada Kedavra!" "Expelliarmus!" The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupt.. | harry-potter hope duel elder-wand voldemort | J.K. Rowling | |
| fa74a55 | Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. To that end she had tried banning television in the early years, and never had a lipstick or a woman's magazine crossed the threshold of the Belsey home to Kiki's knowledge, but these and other precautionary measures had made no difference. It was .. | feminism women body-image | Zadie Smith | |
| 8f51089 | Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people........ | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 622cbfc | I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 29f2355 | You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless! | mortality | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| a4290a4 | I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fe939e5 | He would not apologize for today, or yesterday, or for any of it. And she would not ask him to, not now that she understood that in the weeks she had been looking at him it had been like gazing at a reflection. No wonder she had loathed him. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 36a75e5 | The wrath Chaol found in Aelin's eyes was world-ending. "You bring my court into this, Chaol," Aelin said with lethal softness, "and I don't care what you were to me, or what you have done to help me. You betray them, you hurt them, and I don't care how long it takes, or how far you go: I'll burn you and your gods-damned kingdom to ash. Then you'll learn just how much of a monster I can be." | chaol-westfall queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| dd90d74 | War is sanctioned murder, no matter what side you're on. | manon-blackbeak | Sarah J. Maas | |
| face5e6 | People are only what they think of themselves. | reira nana manga | Ai Yazawa | |
| 1b7162b | my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed to be as different as possible from his . But I was Igbo before the white man came. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b94a76d | Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 471c4ae | Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 20acce2 | Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. | Harper Lee | ||
| dfb3519 | Because the song is us and the song is her and this time I'm going to use her name. Norah, Norah, Norah - no rhymes really. Just truth. I shouldn't want the song to end. I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. | David Levithan | ||
| 31a58a1 | But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded. | David Levithan | ||
| fefdca9 | We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us? | Alain de Botton | ||
| a595c89 | I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart. | marriage relationships | Emily Giffin | |
| bff22aa | I'd missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up bullshit reasons to call the Keep so I could hear his voice. My only saving grace was that Curran wasn't handling this whole mating thing any better. Yesterday he'd called me at the office claiming that he couldn't find his socks. We talked for two hours. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d55c265 | He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath. | learning twenty | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| eb010b2 | We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things... | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| d52f7d0 | We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to t.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 1df4062 | Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 897a2ea | I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after, I'm going to come back and beat you to death with a snow globe.' What happened to "bibbity bobbity boo"?' Cal asked Min. That was Disney, honey,' Min said. 'It wasn't a documentary." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| eb94494 | Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. | science inspirational altruism | Richard Dawkins | |
| b213112 | Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committi.. | greed failed-systems class | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| bed98c4 | But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 4a4e353 | It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too. | Veronica Roth | ||
| a98b23b | This is the Valdezinator, of course!' He puffed out his chest. 'It works by, um, translating your feelings into music as you manipulate the gears. It's really meant for me, a child of Hephaestus, to use, though. I don't know if you could -' 'I am the god of music!' Apollo cried. 'I can certainly master the Valdezinator. I must! It is my duty! | the-blood-of-olympus leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| e6b1396 | But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!" Chiron and Grover glanced nervously at the sky. The clouds didn't seem to be parting around us, as Grover had promised. They were rolling straight over our valley, sealing us in like a coffin lid. Er, Percy ...?" Grover said. "We don't use the c-word to describe the Lord of the Sky." | grover-underwood zeus percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 75062ad | Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. "Narcissus is a loser! He's so weak, he can't bench-press a Kleenex. He's so lame, when you look up lame on Wikipedia, it's got a picture of Narcissus--only the picture's so ugly, no one ever checks it out." | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| f3fbf66 | My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it. | poem poetry heart conversations eat eaten les-fleurs-du-mal the-flowers-of-evil lost charles-baudelaire | Charles Baudelaire | |
| bc6f7b1 | As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport. | insignificance | William Shakespeare |