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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2287957 | A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. | drinking | Raymond Chandler | |
| 27458e2 | A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. | loneliness friendship | J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 40998ca | A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid. | riddle | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 29e2f4d | Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see." "I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson. "And what do you conclude from that, Watson?" | plato-and-platypus sherlock sherlock-holmes | Thomas Cathcart Daniel Klein | |
| 84bd0d4 | You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3a5719b | SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the darkness | severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9c92375 | You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just -- exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. | existence dementors-kiss remus-lupin empty soul | J.K. Rowling | |
| 758d2bc | The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon. | Libba Bray | ||
| 816f78c | No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I'm cracking open. | gemma-doyle mirage society girl | Libba Bray | |
| 8bcf9ba | If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 8dd1cc5 | When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. | sleep information | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| c4d6940 | The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all | fiction fantasy court-of-dreams rhysand new-adult rhys | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8a95a93 | What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements? | mind judgamental judgement | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 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 | ||
| 8490825 | that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 995bae7 | Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3005a98 | Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? | life learn power | Sidney Sheldon | |
| c821461 | The universe is wider than our views of it. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e07f6ba | Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best. | Norton Juster | ||
| 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." | marriage relationships humor proposal | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 7c6f3db | The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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, .. | literature clichés j-r-r-tolkien fantasy-fiction | 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." | romance love hideous-beauty | 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 |