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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 94af284 | A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 42de27f | But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death. | life religion weep | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 23e65e6 | And after a long time the boy came back again. "I am sorry, Boy," said the tree, "but I have nothing left to give you- My apples are gone." "My teeth are too weak for apples," said the boy. "My branches are gone," said the tree. "You cannot swing on them-" "I am too old to swing on branches," said the boy. "My trunk is gone," said the tree. "You cannot climb-" "I am too tired to climb," said the boy. "I am sorry," sighed the tree... | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 957a2e5 | Die Dorkamese Twins. | chosen marked p-c-cast-kristin-cast untamed | P.C. Cast | |
| 858c50d | The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve. | Rick Warren | ||
| 7de1a7c | Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| c5d3c3b | Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be. | Julian Barnes | ||
| b040eca | I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you." "I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists." | seeing-dogs | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 8b054c9 | La cucaracha, La cucaracha, Ya no puede caminar, porque no tiene, porque le falta, I don't know the rest, la la la la! | carlos-fuentes funny perfect-chemistry rules-of-attraction simone-elkeles tuck | Simone Elkeles | |
| 20688ac | I don't care what he thinks. Only what you think." He holds me tighter. "Like if you think I need to stop biting my nails." "You've worn your pinkies to nubs," I say cheerfully. "Or if I need to start ironing my bed spread." "I DO NOT IRON MY BED SPREAD." "You do. And I love it." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 78d1e13 | Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can. | James Patterson | ||
| 78afe76 | If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. | librarians spelling | Ramona Quimby as written by Beverly Cleary | |
| c6336df | I wish you had sincerity enough to tell me whether Catherine would suffer greatly from his loss: the fear that she would restrains me. And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she de.. | Emily Brontë | ||
| 6f4d0ee | She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. | Harper Lee | ||
| 89bc2c2 | You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy. | John Green | ||
| 96e5de4 | There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't. | brains hope inner-thoughts mental-health mental-illness thoughts | John Green | |
| baacc9a | Every heart has its own skeletons. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a12fb4c | Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 08bb5fd | True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. | guilt madness | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 253fdfa | We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home. | eternity | John O'Donohue | |
| f3bf17c | I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze." ( , November 1913)" -- | spite writing | D.H. Lawrence | |
| d0a86fb | You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 7c5afc1 | But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. | indifference love unrequited-love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 53ff3ad | I think I'll dismember the world and then I'll dance in the wreckage. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fcb95b3 | It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| ac1a0b8 | The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half t.. | cosmology cosmos hindu vedantism vedas | Carl Sagan | |
| 128e94a | Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing.. | minority oppression race-relations responsibility sexual-orientation | Audre Lorde | |
| 6bf624c | Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath | dark-lover | J.R. Ward | |
| 8c48ab4 | He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked. - "Nothing" he said. - "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in obliv.. | awkward beautiful boy flirt girl gorgeous hazel john-green life looking-at-me love lover lovers natalie-portman real real-life silence smile smiling the-fault-in-our-stars turn-me-on vendetta | John Green The Fault in Our Stars | |
| 4cf675d | Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die. | last-words remember | John Green | |
| a1bc6d3 | This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides." | gen | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| ef56829 | Half of bravery is perspective. | Veronica Roth | ||
| c1906ed | Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| a6ab701 | I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life. | high humor | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 2b8f23d | Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end | death human | Christopher Paolini | |
| 040828e | What in the world are you thinking?" She sounded pretty flustered. "I try not to think," Leo admitted. "It interferes with being nuts. Just concentrate on moving that Celestial bronze. Echo, you ready?" | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 1f07484 | I am Persephone" she said, her voice thin and papery. "Welcome, demigods. Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. "Welcome? After last time, you've got the nerve to welcome me?" I shifted uneasily, because talking that way to a god can get you blasted into dust bunnies. "Um, Nico-" "It's all right," Persephone said coldly. "We had a little family spat." "Family spat?" Nico cried. "You turned me into a dandelion!" | percy-jackson persephone thalia-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| 4f1f7a4 | Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?" Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir." Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship." | hephaestus percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 84967ae | He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him - possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that! | memory nico-di-angelo past | Rick Riordan | |
| 9a618a4 | There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure. | harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 92d3b7d | Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real. Mab gave them . | fairy-tales | Jim Butcher | |
| fd73e9d | My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5886f06 | Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| d263a06 | The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. | be-anything choice future inspirational sarah-dessen unbroken wisdom | Sarah Dessen |