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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fb50b2f | The end of the world has come often, and continues to come. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3a3e1e0 | The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. | meaning religion god truth purpose knowledge | Carl Sagan | |
| fa445fd | We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. | H. P. Lovecraft | ||
| bdde7bf | Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7a9424d | The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. | storytelling | Stephen King | |
| 27ac4ce | She is more beautiful than I have words for. And last night, I was blessed beyond measure to serve her. | black-dagger-brotherhood zsadist | J.R. Ward | |
| 5f029a5 | I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| f62acb7 | I is the hardest word to define. | turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| a8211fe | Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o'clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn't broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: 'get in a taxi now' or 'I need to see you, we need to talk'. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark.. | David Nicholls | ||
| 7c7cfea | Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 9b08270 | The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic. | love | Maria V. Snyder | |
| d436557 | He uncovered the boat, his hands working the knots like he'd been doing it his whole life. Under the tarp was an old steel rowboat with no oars. The boat had been painted dark blue at one point, but the hull was so crusted with tar and salt it looked like one massive nautical bruise. On the bow, the name Pax was still readable, lettered in gold. Painted eyes drooped sadly at the water level, as if the boat were about to fall asleep. On boar.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 5533255 | The way to beat Luke," he said. "If I'm right, it's the only way you'll stand a chance." I took a deep breath. "Okay. I'm listening." Nico glanced inside my room. His eyebrows furrowed. "Is that...is that blue birthday cake?" He sounded hungry, maybe a little wistful. I wondered if the poor kid had ever had a birthday party, or if he'd ever even been invited to one. :Come inside for cake and ice cream," I said. "It sounds like we've got a l.. | blue-food percy-jackson nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| c122a15 | In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff. | inspirational eternity | Fred Rogers | |
| 5f7023f | What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. | motivational inspirational aims achievement desires self-trust belief goals self-confidence | Norman Vincent Peale | |
| 5e4fb1c | Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. | inspirational | Gordon B. Hinckley | |
| ef3888b | On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. | joy beauty death life inspirational warped victory ideas | John Muir | |
| 9a725d7 | Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. | inspirational | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 9f225cb | We could really use the Avengers right about now." "Screw that. We need Loki," Daemon retorted. General Eaton arched a brow. "Well, unfortunately, the Marvel Universe isn't real, so..." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b897732 | The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. | violence intemperance | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| c9e79cb | I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children." "But this isn't yours," I pointed out. "My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.]" -- | entitlement | Rick Riordan | |
| 3ebb593 | Now-what's our game plan?" Coach Hedge belched. He'd already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and another flower from the vase on the table. He would've eaten the silverware, except Piper had slapped his hand. "Climb the mountain," Hedge said. "Kill everything except Piper's dad. Leave." "Thank you General Eisenhower," Jason grumbles." | humour jason-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| b91e19a | There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay. | friendship | J.D. Robb | |
| daef113 | When I am lonely for boys it's their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don't move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 0d1813a | There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that as as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. It had a playful side too, as.. | sea | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 0cf3255 | I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't. | corporeal-punishment | Jodi Picoult | |
| acf1857 | When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better. | inspirational | C.S. Lewis | |
| 6f7f359 | I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. | sorrow process | C.S. Lewis | |
| f6480c2 | for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 324236c | I would like to be able to breathe-- to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely. | pain heart love albert-camus camus | Albert Camus | |
| 823cb15 | What am I dying for? | life | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 0ff6659 | She just keeps saying "He's gone." | sam-uley | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 914369a | You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 588eebb | I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. | writing | Anne Lamott | |
| 22a33f6 | The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam ." "It come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected. "No, it ca'n't," said the Queen. "It's jam every day: to-day isn't any day, you know" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| bfe7dcd | If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours | James Patterson | ||
| e441a6b | Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the .. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ad6cfd4 | Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. | life-lessons inspirational | Louisa May Alcott | |
| cffc4bc | The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fc23cbc | Without love we all like birds with broken wings. | Mitch Albom | ||
| a7f910d | It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems. | future possible | Nicholas Sparks | |
| b02dcb9 | What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an e.. | nature goodness reason religion hope roses providence flowers | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 7fc9eb2 | I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped. | Libba Bray | ||
| 1113a93 | Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. | Graham Greene |