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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cab1c89 | Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 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! | education artistic-training 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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. | snap eve-rosser morganville-vampires shane-collins | 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 | |
| 10610c1 | When you really want love you will find it waiting for you. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7e79b8c | Have you tried to talk to her?" "What would you like me to say Bastian? OH, I'M SORRY, INEZ. I DIDN'T MEAN TO BITE YOU, MY FANGS SLIPPED." | thomas | Lynsay Sands | |
| db15af5 | Indeed, "Hera said. --Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again --my power. For weeks I've grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form." --So you're like a heat lamp,"Leo guessed. --Or fertilizer." | juno leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| dc9ff92 | That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." Which one is me?" I asked. The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. Oh, shut up." | grover zoe gods percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 1735e32 | Leo," Hazel gasped, "I can't--my arms--" "Hazel," he said. "Do you trust me?" "No!" "Me neither," Leo admitted." | trust humor leo-i-love-you-ok lol | Rick Riordan | |
| ac93f5e | I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| ff6bba9 | All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. | unity | Alexandre Dumas | |
| c184705 | Polka will never die. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e6a51dd | Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. | feelings learning humor education life love truth inspirational expression | Jason Mraz | |
| 43b2be2 | I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted .. | philosophy inspirational | Virginia Satir | |
| 535e007 | It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| ece605a | The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable. | time finality | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 0f959af | I know love and lust don't always keep the same company. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8626c7b | We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 1756225 | she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next.. | poetry loving writers | Richard Brautigan | |
| cd41a88 | Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. | verse prose nonsense | Lewis Carroll | |
| 46fd8f3 | What...what about when I'm married?" "We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 017cfcd | A Poem By Max White is the color of little bunnies with pink noses. White is the color of fluffy clouds fluffing their way across the sky. White is the color of angel's wings and Angel's wings. White is the color of brand-new ankle socks fresh out of the bag. White is the color of crisp sheets in schmancy hotels. White is the color of every last freaking, gol-danged thing you see for endless miles and miles if you happen to be in Anta.. | James Patterson | ||
| 759f56d | Being alone is the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself how lucky you are not to be one of those spindly Sudanese children with flies beading their mouths. You make out To Do lists - reorganise linen cupboard, learn two sonnets. You dole out little treats to yourself - slices of ice-cream cake, concerts at Wigmore Hall. And then, every once in a while, you wake up and gaze .. | Zoë Heller | ||
| ed17eb4 | Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. If it hasn't happened to you yet, consider yourself lucky. When it does, when one day you look around and nothing is recognizable, when you find yourself alone in a dark wood having lost the way, you may find it easier to blame it on someone else --.. | life torture | Nick Flynn | |
| 9e7465e | Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that you take pleasure in letting you.. | inspirational atlas-shrugged second-handers objectivism mediocrity | Ayn Rand | |
| 19fec60 | Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. | writing inspiration sociology creativity | Steven Pressfield | |
| 1dd98c6 | We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| ba0306a | Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one c.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 0f4cdbf | And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inc.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b78b5bb | You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 'She's a child!' shouted Crumley. IT'S EDUCATIONAL. 'What if she cuts herself?' THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON. | lessons humour death humor discworld hogfather important-lessons swords | Terry Pratchett | |
| 985ea9f | I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 76ec8a7 | Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it." | harry-potter scrimgeour defiance | J.K. Rowling | |
| 05e666e | You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life. | world treasure eleven-minutes paolo-coelho victim | Paulo Coelho | |
| d680742 | It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 7c9198e | What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| f294783 | She sucked in a shuddering breath, and he pulled back far enough for them to share breath. Her fingers shook as she brushed them against his mouth, and his control nearly shredded apart right there. 'What are you waiting for?' he said, the words near guttural. 'Bastard,' she murmured, and kissed him. Her mouth was soft and warm, and he bit back a groan. His body went still--his entire world went still--at that whisper of a kiss, the answer .. | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6b09785 | By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!" | howl-s-moving-castle sophie howl | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| a2fa6bd | I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a3dab5b | Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. | science reductionism | Leo Tolstoy |