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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | intemperance violence | 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. | process sorrow | C.S. Lewis | |
| 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 | ||
| df14379 | To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. | dogma doubt experience faith kool-aid religion scepticism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 5b68059 | Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 14d94bc | Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 39a6025 | If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. | christmas-tree felo-de-se hanging suicide valentine valentine-s-day | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 3581121 | Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence," Isaac: "I'm pretty sure all asses are blind," | blind isaac the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 8d8ce78 | Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ..." ..." | humor lindsey | John Green | |
| 6978cba | Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 38a1f7b | There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. | human-nature savagery war | George R.R. Martin | |
| c0aa4a6 | What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 6fd4692 | Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. | misattributed-jane-fulton paraphrasing-narcotics-anonymous | Rita Mae Brown | |
| 9383185 | There are too many of them." Reyna wondered bitterly how many times she'd said that in her demigod career. She should have a badge made and wear it around to save time. When she died, the words would probably be written on her tombstone: There were too many of them." | reyna rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 67c266b | 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 | |
| 0262fc7 | Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. | failure inspirational | Napoleon Hill | |
| 3b82a56 | Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite? | being-passionate inspiration inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring life-and-living passion passion-for-life passionate passionate-life passionate-living passions polite politeness | C. JoyBell C. | |
| bed9322 | The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment. | commitment inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success | Roy T. Bennett | |
| bda8748 | One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. | inspirational nature science | Aldo Leopold | |
| a588452 | What sexual preference do you hope she has?" "Happiness." Isnt that cool?" | love sexual-preference weetzie-bat | Francesca Lia Block | |
| f479709 | There's a Greek legend--no, it's in something Plato wrote--about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman.. | lesbian lgbt mythology | Nancy Garden | |
| a4e1727 | Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b53ad4d | I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9719d2b | I think people expect too much from marriage today,' he said. 'They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience. . . . twenty good minutes here, forty good minutes there, it adds up to something beautiful. The trick is when things aren't so great, you don't junk the whole thing. It's okay to have an argument. It's okay that the other one nudges you a little, bothers you a little.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 84455d3 | In a world like this one, only the random makes sense. | Libba Bray | ||
| 6ce1933 | The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people's hands, nothing we say now that could not be said in the endless array of movements possible with the fine bones of the fingers and wrists. The gestures were complex and subtle, involving a delicacy of motion that has since been lost completely. During the Age of Silence, people communicated more, not less. Basic survival de.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| d453264 | The prince of darkness is a gentleman! | irony | William Shakespeare | |
| 4bdf10c | What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| e546745 | I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye! | manners poems | Shel Silverstein | |
| 1a1f528 | I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!" | Charles Dickens | ||
| a5e3a71 | It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. | lawyers | Charles Dickens | |
| f093d69 | Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| e8c91ed | These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| afbe6b9 | Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies. | intensity laughter loneliness lonely-people | Mark Helprin | |
| 69e74ba | You are avake, yah?" said a voice in a horribly recognizable accent. "Yah," I muttered, rubbing my head. "And you are still a jerk, yah?" | James Patterson | ||
| 45a0627 | You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them. | James Patterson | ||
| 7b8eac5 | Fnick -Iggy | James Patterson |