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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d6221d8 | In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| f924ede | I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks.. | management police-state bureaucracy efficiency corporatocracy corporations dictatorship big-business evil hell | C.S. Lewis | |
| bab2ff3 | After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy. | men women love | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 4941743 | I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head. | Albert Camus | ||
| 226e088 | Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 18bfc5e | So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 586d5f6 | No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. | pain | Cormac McCarthy | |
| fef314e | It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different | leaving-paradise simone-elkeles | Simone Elkeles | |
| 754eabd | I'm not sure how to order." "Easy," Josh says. "Stand in line. Tell them what you want. Accept delicious goodies. And then give them your meal card and two pints of blood." "I heard they raised it to three pints this year," Rashmi says. "Bone marrow," Beautiful Hallway Boy says. "Or your left earlobe." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6db80d8 | Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. | Henry Miller | ||
| 60ec71a | A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. | dissent suppression society trouble | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 9f10695 | I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. | Don DeLillo | ||
| fc2f730 | Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. | wisdom inspirational | Dan Millman | |
| 74da95b | Although it may not seem like it, this isn't a story about darkness. It's about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy. | mac | Karen Marie Moning | |
| 6dd938d | I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there' said Harry. 'That's Voldemort's job. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 526f6f0 | Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So -- after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating --' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul --' 'Jordan, I'm warning you --' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindo.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4ca70c9 | Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 76de407 | The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. | being-someone-else lying humanity inspirational being-someone-else-you-are-not hating-yourself trying-to-be-like-someone-else self-acceptance hiding shame self-hatred | J.K. Rowling | |
| 64392f4 | It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 12d4dab | You can't fool people into loving you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a3eca06 | The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist" | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b3b5863 | you and I are going to learn how to fly. And then we'll stain this kingdom red. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 952488e | So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!" | humor cowardice | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 61b0812 | To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. | love | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| ae9755b | at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has n.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 94c9c3f | There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire | lust | Jacqueline Carey | |
| f2b4f60 | I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. | errors technology | Agatha Christie | |
| 8ab131d | Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 98d1b90 | No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 642726e | Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.) | William Goldman | ||
| 1e11782 | I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- | charles bukowski | ||
| 9d27018 | This is not for you. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 2a79cc6 | I said, I know why you're afraid to fight with me." "And why is that?" If he flexed again, I'd have to implement emergency measures. Maybe I could kick some sand at him or something. Hard to look hot brushing sand out of your eyes. "You want me." Oh boy. "You can't resist my subtle charm, so you're afraid you're going to make a spectacle out of yourself." "You know what? Don't talk to me." | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| bb8e42e | Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately." | Cornelia Funke | ||
| f16a6b6 | Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. | genius | Oscar Wilde | |
| 3d1ed27 | The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 2fdab16 | Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all - how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark. | Stephen King | ||
| 3caa4fb | You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality! | funny the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 7183fdc | I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask. And it seemed so easy, once he capitul.. | passion love merripen soulmates win longing | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 3c33152 | But now, I am also learning this: WE can be mended. We mend each other. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 9eca909 | What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too." | insurgent tris tobias veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| ced14d1 | I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow. | reading strength tyrion-lannister intellect | George R.R. Martin | |
| fbfccb6 | Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| e0ac01a | Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle. | percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan |