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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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! | funny tuck simone-elkeles perfect-chemistry carlos-fuentes rules-of-attraction | 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. | spelling librarians | 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 | ||
| 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. | love indifference unrequited-love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 7de1a7c | Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 858c50d | The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve. | Rick Warren | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| baacc9a | Every heart has its own skeletons. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 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. | thoughts hope inner-thoughts brains mental-illness mental-health | John Green | |
| 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. | religion life 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 | |
| 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.. | hindu vedantism vedas cosmos cosmology | 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.. | responsibility minority sexual-orientation race-relations oppression | 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.. | lover lovers silence life love real-life awkward flirt gorgeous looking-at-me natalie-portman turn-me-on vendetta john-green boy the-fault-in-our-stars real girl smile smiling beautiful hazel | 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. | humor high | 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 | human death | 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!" | persephone thalia-grace percy-jackson | 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! | past nico-di-angelo memory | 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 sarah-dessen unbroken future choice wisdom inspirational | Sarah Dessen |