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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6911f1f | The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a7429ef | Look, I need to tell you something,' I continued. The words came stumbling out of me. 'I couldnt stand it if...I dont want you to---' Percy?' she said. 'You look like you're going to be sick.' And that's how I felt. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 491a1f7 | The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible. | inspirational | Demi Lovato | |
| df35ef2 | Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough! | humor inspirational last-words | Karl Marx | |
| b4c8112 | Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 21b65a4 | And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hou.. | national-debt fiscal-policy political-philosophy | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 595ae91 | Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three. | lover women | Robert Jordan | |
| 03fd7cb | Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next. | the-future obedience | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| ef72939 | Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment. | words literature reading | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| f3afb5b | No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 41ada66 | The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. | humor hunting perspective shooting | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 68cce63 | Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden dimness, the most seemingly chaotic political acts, the rise of a great city, the crystalline structure of a gem that has never seen the light, the distributions of fortune, what time the milkman gets up, the position of the electron, or the occurrence of one astonishing frigid winter after another. Even electrons, suppose.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| a4e0b4c | Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?" The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?" "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?" | cheshire-cat alice-in-wonderland lewis-carroll | Lewis Carroll | |
| 5753913 | No more moving. I'm here. I'm wherever you are. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| a0fa510 | It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 46e9b91 | I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 9073eed | Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words. | words deception | Frank Herbert | |
| d813217 | Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e4a9a57 | The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in shadow shimmering. Tinuviel was dancing there To music of a pipe unseen, And light of stars was in her hair, And in her raiment glimmering. There Beren came from mountains cold, And lost he wandered under leaves, And where the Elven-river rolled. He walked along and sorrowing. He peered between the hemlock-leaves And sa.. | tinuviel luthien elves mortal | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 66dd9ca | Call me Ishmael. | opening-lines introduction sobriquet | Herman Melville | |
| 09094a5 | Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told. | storytelling story-telling | Umberto Eco | |
| fd10e56 | It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you. | smart | Katherine Paterson | |
| d9384e8 | And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we? | harry-potter comedy dumbledore secrets | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5ca28c7 | I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying." Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and yelled at Harry, his face like a gigantic beet with a mustache: "MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!" Dudley and Piers sniggered. "I know they don't," said Harry. "It was only a dream." -- | harry-potter motorcycle dursley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 03c4a78 | The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0e7d9fb | Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1778ed0 | Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? | Lois Lowry | ||
| 0fd435a | Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 428a008 | Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 86ea8c8 | She knew he meant it. He'd burn the library, the city or the whole world to ashes if she asked him. It was their bond, marked by blood and scent and something else she couldn't place. A tether as strong as the one that bound her to her parents. Stronger, in some ways. | bound tether ties-bigger-than-life aelin-galathynius heir-of-fire celaena-sardothien bond | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f33e9cb | Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. | grief depression proportion | Andrew Solomon | |
| 707e8bf | Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. | time | William Gibson | |
| b003382 | I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied | inspirational | Ralph Ellison | |
| 7275e9e | Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter | inspirational-quotes success nerve | Robert Greene | |
| 3590660 | It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it. Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| dde146f | Atticus sat looking at the floor for a long time. Finally he raised his head. "Scout," he said, "Mr. Ewell fell on his knife. Can you possibly understand?" Atticus looked like he needed cheering up. I ran to him and hugged him and kissed him with all my might. "Yes sir, I understand," I reassured him. "Mr. Tate was right." Atticus disengaged himself and looked at me. "What do you mean?" "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wo.. | Harper Lee | ||
| cee7dfe | underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice. | David Levithan | ||
| cccd81e | I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world. | young-adult books beauty wisdom offense philip-pullman book plot belief value children-s-books paraphrased | philip pullman | |
| d8df258 | Seriously," Shane said, "this kind of is the worst situation we've ever been in, right?" "Speak for yourself," Michael said. "I got myself killed last year. Twice." "Oh yeah. You're right--last year really sucked for you." | Rachel Caine | ||
| e69a35e | Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking." | myrnin ghost-town | Rachel Caine | |
| c5d3dc9 | I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| b269a1b | Journeys end in lovers meeting. | lovers destiny meetings journeys | William Shakespeare | |
| 655b3cf | He is the cheese to my macaroni. | love | Diablo Cody | |
| 4ed4cc9 | What kind of tea do you want?" "There's more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let's see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey." -"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make som.. | tea | Bryan Lee O'Malley |