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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dc15fac | El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| f9bea01 | Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| f0e6d13 | True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you. | emily giffin | ||
| 5ad6c5f | The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore. | power-words self-deprecating | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6da9a74 | What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128" -- | fake-friends friendship judgement outcasts | Jodee Blanco | |
| bba4dd5 | Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. | crime death justice punishment | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 5f191ee | he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 3a167d0 | I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a foo.. | happiness journal life | Sylvia Plath | |
| 1ed795c | I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 81ab2cb | You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. | Italo Calvino | ||
| a1ac391 | It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed. | individuality | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| ccc239b | I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fdf04ca | Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. | firm ignorance intensity knowledge | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 366f40f | Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fb0fc39 | It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 5f1aa6e | You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b85c5be | We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he wrapped his short arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, 'God we must look so lame,' but it does.. | sad still-alive | John Green | |
| 00fb938 | Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you--they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn't prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart. | decomposition entropy fall-apart science together | John Green | |
| 4c6f6f1 | You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 71cda0d | Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them. | death divergent four fourtris heroes life the-traitor tobias-eaton tris-prior veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 4076d14 | There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows... I've written .. | literature metaphors reading words | Pessoa Fernando | |
| 6fbe32d | There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away. "There's my Poochiekins!" Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his rough snout. "My lord Osiris!" Disturber lost the bottom of his scroll again, which unraveled around his legs. "This is an outrage!" "Sadie," Dad said firmly, "please do not refer to the Devourer of Souls as Poochiekins." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 644f3ba | Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?" Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?" "Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries." Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom." Maybe it was the fact that we were so tired and strung out emotionally, but I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, w.. | humour percy-jackson thalia-grace zoe-nightshade | Rick Riordan | |
| 1bb3f0e | 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 | |
| c42dce1 | Let's get loose With Compassion, Let's drown in the delicious Ambience of Love. | hafiz | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī | |
| 281d776 | You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles! | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 090368e | In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living.. | inspirational | David Sheff | |
| 0243b25 | Silence is argument carried out by other means. | inspirational life revolutionary | Ernesto "Che" Guevara | |
| be1c9bc | Nix to Declan: Begin transcript-- Testing. Hello, hellooo, anybody out there? Check, check, one, two. Soft pee. Puh, puh. Resonance! Sooooooft pee. Alpha bravo disco tango duck. This is Nix! I'm the Ever-Knowing One, a goddess incandescent, incomparable, and irresistible. But enough about what you think of me. It's a beautiful day in New Orleans. The wind is out of the east at a steady five knots and clouds look like rabbits ... But enough .. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 265eb24 | the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| eb36d9c | Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! | artistic-training education liberal-arts | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| f3a6267 | The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do.. | life resignation | Henry David Thoreau | |
| fc1d141 | Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity | James Baldwin | ||
| ff87829 | Uncle Vernon: What were you doing under our window, boy? Harry Potter: Listening to the news. Uncle Vernon: Listening to the news! Again? Harry: Well, it changes every day, you see. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 644f08d | When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 161bfa9 | Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door. | love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 953dca3 | When my mate died, it took me a very, very long time to come back." It took her a moment to think of what to say. "How long?" "Two hundred three years, twenty-seven days ago." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a483c90 | When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles,' Amelie said. 'Not one who ran away from them.' 'Snap,' Eve said. 'You know what they're talking about?' Shane asked. 'Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it. | eve-rosser morganville-vampires shane-collins snap | Rachel Caine | |
| 1ed9cd2 | For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let t.. | library malediction | Cornelia Funke | |
| 1a1b89b | to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7d6a1f2 | Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| c76d548 | Bella, would you please stop trying to take your clothes off? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 40dc99a | I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important... I simply can't think about anything else, that's all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can't find a woman who interests me. | Henry Miller | ||
| 4884849 | Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul's possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level | individuality mediocrity soul | Gustave Flaubert |