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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e2eefa | T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer. | back-to-school fall new-beginnings september summer | Wallace Stegner | |
| 1e5c2ed | But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth. | truth-telling | Howard Zinn | |
| c16c6be | If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki | Tite Kubo | ||
| 981de4d | I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e39c216 | She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness. | love | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| e88552c | Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be all.. | humor | Neil Gaiman | |
| 069464d | All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made u.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 887693c | Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough. | writers | Stephen King | |
| a7be87a | You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up. | J.R. Ward | ||
| d16eab8 | Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules. | John Green | ||
| 5c1612e | I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled" | John Green | ||
| 9548b21 | Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 9251200 | Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. | humor | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| d737f02 | If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me. | inspirational | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 0e39689 | The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin... | anti-establishment inspirational kickass | Richard K. Morgan | |
| ca53006 | Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 86766c8 | I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| bf16a49 | I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson | Rick Riordan | ||
| a1ba1e7 | Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water. A whole bunch of tourists went, "Whoa!" I managed to wave at the crowd. " | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0809204 | Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? | achievement admiration atlas-shrugged inspirational love objectivism | Ayn Rand | |
| 76d5618 | Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that you take pleasure in letting you.. | achievement atlas-shrugged inspirational mediocrity objectivism second-handers | Ayn Rand | |
| c05eee7 | Achievement has no color | achievement inspirational racism | Abraham Lincoln | |
| bc195de | Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat. Kegemaran membaca; sebuah kebahagiaan. | inspirational | Goenawan Mohamad | |
| 9eec84d | The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you. | inspirational | Leo Buscaglia | |
| 8955c96 | All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness. | loneliness love | Juliet Marillier | |
| c32f01f | All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them. | inspirational life philosophy | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 2cde7b4 | I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 21e8bd6 | There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 7d2740f | It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here. | self-love | James Baldwin | |
| 0854003 | Words are not that important when you recognize intentions. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 17241e6 | After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e55a3d0 | For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love... | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 42ece3b | The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today. | problems strength worrying | Max Lucado | |
| 7d662e5 | I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 0dfe4a3 | Each of the scars, the chipped teeth and broken claws, the mutilated tail--they weren't the markings of a victim. Oh, no. They were the trophies of a survivor. Abraxos was a warrior who'd had all the odds stacked against him and survived. Learned from it. Triumphed. | manon-blackbeak strength-of-character | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 7a07919 | If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,-- But things couldn't go right For in such a sad plight I wouldn't be I. If earth was heaven and now was hence, And past was present, and false was true, There might be some sense But I'd be in suspense For on such a pretense You wouldn't be you. If fear was plucky, and globes were square, And dirt was cle.. | contradictions identity if opposites poetry-quotes reality | E.E. Cummings | |
| 0cf8ed8 | When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you | Richard Bach | ||
| 883d5fa | The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages. What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if ev.. | individualism political | Ayn Rand | |
| b68fad9 | I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. | perceptive travel | John Steinbeck | |
| d4bd0dc | Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven! | Rick Warren | ||
| f5e65bd | The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together. | feminism louisa-may-alcott women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| f56ef08 | Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick." -- | philosophy truth | Frank Herbert | |
| ea91a51 | We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| a2e3314 | When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist. | Chuck Palahniuk |