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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 27458e2 | A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. | friendship loneliness | J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 40998ca | A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid. | riddle | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| f756327 | I want you, and I want you forever. One lifetime is simply not enough for me. | breaking-dawn twilight-quote | Stephenie Meyer | |
| bece361 | Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one t.. | identity | Samuel Beckett | |
| 4580041 | It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. | heart love | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| d647be2 | Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom." | prayer spirituality | Anne Lamott | |
| 6ffc711 | I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today! | Henry Miller | ||
| 7a8b94e | He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important." | last-words | Mario Puzo | |
| 17c3b75 | Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you | love-hurts | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 828d999 | Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff." | David Mitchell | ||
| 03e39e7 | I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. | nature restless restlessness | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 64a37c6 | Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool." | humor marriage proposal relationships | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 7c6f3db | The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8ee7543 | Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others. | inspirational life-lessons things-to-do-before-death | Mitch Albom | |
| d0c85c1 | I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| d306d04 | I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that. | live-life | Ray Bradbury | |
| a0a87a6 | When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 1832b8a | If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. | anticipation friend happy visit | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| ed168db | It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible... and he loves me anyway. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| f14189e | Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b5e0f36 | You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. | despair fingernails manicure nails | Ian McEwan | |
| fde0417 | Always winter but never Christmas. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 46eb3ad | Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it? | Ken Kesey | ||
| 0c70c42 | To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. | Tom Robbins | ||
| be27ee1 | You are a terrifying creature," the Voice told her solemnly. "You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men make your decisions for you. You ride as a man, you fight as a man, and you think as a man --" "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women -- they just make more fuss about being able to." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| bd85c09 | I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 5d0fd3f | Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 3e9d9ac | I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. | humor parents | Stephen King | |
| 8fd5f6f | In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 4551ddf | If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos | John Green | ||
| 8236f08 | Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 3a4c945 | When people dis fantasy--mainstream readers and SF readers alike--they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about , and Tolkien's innumerable heirs. Call it 'epic', or 'high', or 'genre' fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate. Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious--you can't ignore it, .. | clichés fantasy-fiction j-r-r-tolkien literature | China Miéville | |
| d1d57f9 | Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 2e5450a | Desperation can make a person do surprising things. | surprise | Veronica Roth | |
| 9876c2a | Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them. | inoffensiveness politeness | Diane Setterfield | |
| cc913ed | You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. He knew affection and tenderness but only briefly. Eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. Is that it, Evey? Is t.. | Alan Moore | ||
| b76b8c3 | Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. | freedom rights | Alan Moore | |
| 9d49e5b | The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 71458c1 | OPEN WITH CARE. TRIPPLE G RANCH IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE, MAIMING, OR EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL DEATHS. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8a2cd61 | I seriously needed an extra-strength magic pillow, because my ba refused to stay put. [And no, Sadie, I don't think wrapping my head in duct tape would've worked either.] | Rick Riordan | ||
| c94d82d | Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment. "No" I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. "Tell me." "I can't." | hideous-beauty love romance | Holly Black | |
| d5a4a3a | Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to. | Holly Black | ||
| 68a344f | I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 543d54e | Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough. | Terry Pratchett |