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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 99fe3da | I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life. | Jean Paul Sartre | ||
| 9024725 | It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2cd211b | The wise speak only of what they know | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 029c275 | Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?" | extreme jeb max maximum other ride saving sports world | James Patterson | |
| 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 | ||
| 34cdeef | Life is a nightmare. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| c708b93 | This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. | paranoia | Philip K. Dick | |
| 6e8b978 | That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. | creativity ideas | Ray Bradbury | |
| ea841d8 | There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 84e3deb | Whatever! Go save a dolphin or something!" He whirled around. "It's a whale, Alex, a whale! That's what I'm interested in saving." I threw up my arms. "What's wrong with saving dolphins?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1ff50f4 | Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 426ac98 | Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| bb0701f | The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. | learning time | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 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. | differences feminism illness silence speaking-out truth women words | 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 divergent-series dystopia dystopian dystopian-fiction prior tris tris-prior | 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. | percy-jackson siren-bay | 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 | ???? ???? | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1fe6a21 | Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1b14c38 | Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4f92adb | Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| be6004c | The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 23f615e | Nothing in this world happens by chance. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fcda7a8 | Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will. | holden | J.D. Salinger | |
| 4ba3559 | I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you. | celaena-sardothien empire-of-storms rowaelin rowan rowan-whitethorn throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 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. | gun suicide | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 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. | buddhism dalai-lama inspiration problems | Anne Lamott | |
| 114ffad | I cry a lot.' 'Yeah? Well I'm gonna change that. | maggie | Simone Elkeles |