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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bb0701f | The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. | time learning | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 5663350 | He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. | tragedy triviality | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| ce64410 | Adventures do occur, but not punctually. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 37c7f1c | You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 82400e3 | Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love. | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| fc046a6 | I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. | meaning-of-life | Hermann Hesse | |
| 5d2c103 | And will you come with me; On this adventure - and all the rest?" "Always" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 83d54bb | He jerked back. "What is this? Be like you were with me the other times! When you melted for me." "That was before I fully understood what a nasty piece of work you are." "Because of a few shifter beheadings? Come on, Lizvetta, it's not as if I went around cock-slapping gnomes." Her jaw dropped." | lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| ada0114 | do it from the heart or not at all. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| b3471e7 | The process begins with the individual woman's acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. | bell hooks | ||
| 34cdeef | Life is a nightmare. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 4d7cc6f | I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone who will worship me, even when.. I'm sitting around in fluffy slippers with no makeup on and hair scraped back. I'm sick and tired of being on my own. Most of the time I'm fine. Some of the time I even quite enjoy it. But at this precise moment in time I'm fed up with it. I've had enough.. | Jane Green | ||
| cad654b | But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends. | David Levithan | ||
| f34e9a0 | I feel strangely normal. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| f4c2bdf | But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. . . . As a politician, he wil.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e808394 | Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won | witches first-lines opening-lines william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 922151a | What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.) | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| aafd4f9 | No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering. | Clive Barker | ||
| 866e7cf | My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. | illness words silence feminism women truth speaking-out differences | Audre Lorde | |
| ea5ce65 | It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny... | T.S. Eliot | ||
| b5006fb | If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you. | Stephen King | ||
| 69734c5 | Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. | Stephen King | ||
| 500457d | Girls think they're only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I'm going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him. | the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 1f49c81 | One of the challenges with pain--physical or psychic--is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can't be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language. | pain | John Green | |
| 7302a51 | It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option. | divergent-insurgent prior tris divergent-series tris-prior dystopia dystopian dystopian-fiction | Veronica Roth | |
| a2cd9cb | We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land." -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| dd32780 | And now, sis. Transportation for the Hunters, you say? Good timing. I was just about ready to roll." These demigods will also need a ride," Artemis said, pointing to us. "Some of Chiron's campers." No problem!" Apollo checked us out. "Let's see... Thalia, right? I've heard all about you.". Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zues's girl. yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree didn't you? Glad your back. I hate it when pretty girls .. | Rick Riordan | ||
| fb01a00 | You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that? | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| b546f12 | Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay. | siren-bay percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 8eaef24 | If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork. | rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 11f6dfe | inspirational | ???? ???? | ||
| 484a874 | And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention. | nature beauty god inspirational praise mountains | Donald Miller | |
| 6e5b085 | From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 825c0b0 | All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard. | humor | Margaret Atwood | |
| a4e376c | We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? | hope insatiability | Margaret Atwood | |
| 8bb1d3e | If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly. Your sense of inner beauty has to remain a very private thing. | John O'Donohue | ||
| d716276 | Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have. | Julie Garwood | ||
| d8835a2 | Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. | grief religion god | C.S. Lewis | |
| c2fb194 | It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible. | inspiration dalai-lama buddhism problems | Anne Lamott | |
| 114ffad | I cry a lot.' 'Yeah? Well I'm gonna change that. | maggie | Simone Elkeles | |
| b19cffc | I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous .. | texas | John Steinbeck | |
| b40a23e | Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. | suicide gun | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 87bfb8e | But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| aff2856 | Would you like a cough drop Dolores? | J.K. Rowling |