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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8d13102 | Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 212bcec | A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. | John Grogan | ||
| 83f4dc7 | To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? | Salman Rushdie | ||
| f0c1342 | There are few things worse than having feelings for someone you shouldn't, and I don't like where my thoughts were headed. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 9091bc5 | I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahs!"-Gazzy" | James Patterson | ||
| 7cb8e7f | The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike. | Maya Angelou | ||
| e9582ad | I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 01aa6b5 | Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. | superstition | Adam Smith | |
| 3ab6bca | A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old. | genius humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 4ab7e1f | I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to ca.. | hurmor margaret-mitchell rhett romance scarlett | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 2bf0cdd | We teach girls shame. "Close your legs. Cover yourself." We make them feel as though being born female they're already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up -- and this is the worst thing we do to girls -- they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an a.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 13639d3 | And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. | aging life time | Martin Amis | |
| 95176f7 | The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choki.. | thoughts words | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 6daae9c | No human on God's earth is a nobody. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| b0bd512 | Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 78048e6 | If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 63be156 | You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| dab7d3c | More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! 'Well, he's fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical,' she said. 'Half the time I think he doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as alright--but then I find out how awfully kind he's been to someone. Then I think he's kind just when it suits him--o.. | howl howl-s-moving-castle sophie | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| f51672f | Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with. | atheist existence humor invention inventions no-remorse problem voltaire | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d127fdb | Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 59f2b2b | It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. | protest truth-telling | Neil Gaiman | |
| 4177a63 | Beware of Doors. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 71a3210 | Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7ad5f23 | Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage. | past suffering | Joyce Meyer | |
| 19b15f3 | Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b8b1a00 | People living alone get used to loneliness. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 31d1ea5 | The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. | simile witty | George R.R. Martin | |
| a92a2ae | Yeah, well. I don't try to be awesome. It just comes natural. | funny gleeson-hedge the-lost-hero | Rick Riordan | |
| ccdb438 | If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic. | Holly Black | ||
| ebd570c | Death's favorites don't die. | Holly Black | ||
| dd15601 | No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 495777f | You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons." | euphemism humour political-correctness | Terry Pratchett | |
| ae51c4b | When people see some things as beautiful | beauty evil good inspirational lao-tzu tao-te-ching worldview | Lao Tzu | |
| 3cb419f | Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. | action inspirational responsibility thought | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
| d5599bc | Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you. | inspirational life life-and-living life-lessons | Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S | |
| 01f5423 | Get comfortable with being uncomfortable! | determination exercise fitness inspirational life-lessons | Jillian Michaels | |
| ee83fa4 | Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. | inspirational | Earl Nightingale | |
| dadaf7b | Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. | inspirational | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| a2e35d3 | Wolfy, is it? And what do you know about my turning?" "I asked around when I figured out I was your... mate." He stood, crossing to her. "Well, let's hear it." "Basically, you'll lose your mind, turning animalistic, hunting me down until you claim me repeatedly, biting my neck and marking me as your possession. Nothing will stop you- no cage can hold you. Did I miss anything? "Aye, Lousha." His gaze raked over her and his voice deepened.. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9ccebc3 | It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, be.. | independent individual | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| c32c311 | You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5e79165 | If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e486828 | A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. | love science-fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6367b5a | She won't understand. And when she goes over the edge, there will be nothing to pull her back." "She will find her way back. She always does." Tears formed, but the princess blinked them away. "For all our sakes, I hope you're right." | Sarah J. Maas |