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| d3c1064 | My lord...I can explain-," Louis-Cesare began, looking less than certain that he could do anything of the kind. Radu held up a hand. "I am sure there is a perfectly good reason why my niece is naked and tied to her bed. I am also equally certain that I do not wish to hear it"." | louis-cesare radu | Karen Chance | |
| cd7c4f3 | My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." | wit | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 671bbd1 | The Type Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken If you grow up the type of woman men want to look at, you can let them look at you. But do not mistake eyes for hands. Or windows. Or mirrors. Let them see what a woman looks like. They may not have ever seen one before. If you grow up the type of woman men want to touch, you can let them touch you. Sometimes it is not you they are reaching for. Sometime.. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 1d59c50 | I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away. | Markus Zusak | ||
| bbd606b | Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 58ae38f | Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions. | empirical existence knowledge philosophy science | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 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. | beauty god inspirational mountains nature praise | 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. | god grief religion | C.S. Lewis | |
| d0b63cd | A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change. | metamorphosis story | Neil Gaiman | |
| 23d44c5 | The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 915202e | I fool you. I fool everyone. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 5f993f2 | Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| c7333b6 | You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 062ce6f | The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what's funny is that if they actually did change them, they'd get bored. They'd have no challenge left. You just have to give girls some time to think of a new way of doing things, that's all. Some of them will figure it out here. Some later. Some never. I wouldn't worry about it too much. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 5b24af7 | A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women insatiable. We greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in pla.. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem self-love sexual-violence sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| e1f0f32 | Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 78781d0 | It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. | mind real what-is-on-the-inside | Anne Brontë | |
| 9c2b5d5 | I stared at him (Dionysus). "You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph-" | humor hypocrite percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| afb5823 | There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. | inspirational | Leo Buscaglia | |
| e1b7ca5 | Andaikata semua kehidupan ini menyakitkan, maka di luar sana pasti masih ada sepotong bagian yang menyenangkan. Kemudian kau akan membenak pasti ada sesuatu yang jauh lebih indah dari menatap rembulan di langit. Kau tidak tahu apa itu, karna ilmumu terbatas. Kau hanya yakin , bila tidak di kehidupan ini suatu saat nanti pasti akan ada yang lebih mempesona dibanding menatap sepotong rembulan yang sedang bersinar indah. | inspirational love | Tere Liye | |
| 4c3bcfb | Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. | american-presidents gettysburg-address inspirational us-presidents | Abraham Lincoln | |
| d28f303 | These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb. | inspirational | Najwa Zebian | |
| eef9650 | A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 1a84acb | To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. | poetry suicide | John Fowles | |
| cafb802 | People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years. | Ian Fleming | ||
| a779a69 | Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 796bf1f | There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. | human-nature individuality | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a08ed93 | And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and i.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 68abcb8 | Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. | growth soul | William James | |
| 9849cfb | Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 3bc5549 | Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. | Richard Bach | ||
| f81274d | What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 48b4dfa | One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. | judgement | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 484d362 | Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? | John Steinbeck | ||
| ada97dc | End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. | end journey life path | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 28115eb | Neither heaven nor hell can keep me apart from you, Melanie. | melanie | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 2048dff | I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. | hubris humble modesty | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| b2cc2fd | She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. | Henry James | ||
| 9d112d7 | Oh my. He's English. "Er. Does Mer live here?" Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. The boy clears his throat. "Meredith Chevalier? Tall girl? Big, curly hair?" Then he looks at me like I'm crazy or half deaf, like my Nana Oliphant. Nanna just smiles and shakes her head whenever I ask, "What kind of salad dressing would you like?" or "Where did you put Granddad's false teeth?" "I'm sorry." He takes.. | Stephanie Perkins |