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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe756da | No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. | beauty inspirational inner-beauty | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| 2a01295 | It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. | loss | John Steinbeck | |
| ff29da8 | While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 83d4ab3 | Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books... | Richard Wright | ||
| 7a22e66 | All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 8b78273 | Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 645dc06 | God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who . | god humor gaiman | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7b8a6fa | The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. | love obsession | Rick Riordan | |
| d97e981 | We learn from failure, not from success! | learning wisdom records experience mistakes | Bram Stoker | |
| ce05dfe | Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman. | self-determination change inspirational | Maya Angelou | |
| f65764f | Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. | present future | Albert Camus | |
| 0fab70d | I just want you to know that you're very special... and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has. | inspirational stephen-chbosky the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 101dd57 | That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed. Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. "Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising' he means 'morally deficient.'" "No, I mean enterprising," said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done'." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 16f6564 | There must be something in books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing. | censorship | Ray Bradbury | |
| 3648c3d | Marriage can wait, education cannot. | marriage | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 9193ebf | You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?" | jordan-kyle jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 56c98c6 | The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide | true-to-self wring inner-voice leaders teachers parents right | Shel Silverstein | |
| 55e1d08 | If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. | carroll | Lewis Caroll | |
| b36d5e5 | Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 5ec5724 | I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. | inspirational | Galileo Galilei | |
| a169f08 | She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| e399ac6 | In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 416b0de | Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. | time reality past injuries scars memory | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 60a5005 | Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. | Sue Grafton | ||
| cc81dab | livid, Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought was too harsh. Someone who thought was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he'd gotten Fuck you. This isn't about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. Yo.. | hate love infidelity | David Levithan | |
| 617cadd | The past beats inside me like a second heart. | past | John Banville | |
| 90e572c | This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 515875a | There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself." | humor magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 785e983 | None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. | trust | Paulo Coelho | |
| 89484cc | It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget. | humor foaly | Eoin Colfer | |
| c363861 | There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. | inspirational | Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni | |
| a2c130f | Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. | marriage men relationships women dorian-gray | Oscar Wilde | |
| e96753c | I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did th.. | life angst teenager | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 421d2e4 | Like all magnificent things, it's very simple. | philosophy simplicity | Natalie Babbitt | |
| 2ea1668 | You can't lie to your soul. | introspection | Irvine Welsh | |
| b052031 | Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. | spirituality science philosophy sense-of-wonder | Carl Sagan | |
| 9e0bf92 | Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken." | pain | C.S. Lewis | |
| 76d1b6e | If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. | innocence | Charlotte Brontë | |
| ec35926 | Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d27dc53 | I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me. | love | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 473c084 | Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself." | J. K. Rowling | ||
| 045bebf | I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit. | John Green | ||
| cacf613 | The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4347d1d | What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. | George R.R. Martin |