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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9e71b79 | Be patient, Ophelia. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 9bc633e | People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. | people life humans | Emma Donoghue | |
| d18be8f | When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it,or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very certain now that, as I said therein, if I truly become what I wish to be, the burden will fall away. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. | Henry Miller | ||
| 3ef1c9a | You both should feel honored." "Right, very honored," I said. "Always wanted to be possessed!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6f1b293 | Hazel!" he yelled. "That box! Open it!" She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. "Open it!" Leo yelled again." | humor heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| 41d3534 | Listen: this world is the lunatic's sphere, Don't always agree it's real, Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door My address is somewhere else. | hafiz | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī | |
| 96636df | You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the first time, taken that fateful step off the precipice, then almost any reason was a good enough reason, almost any provocation was provocation enough. Cutting was my all-purpose solution. | cutting self-harm si | Caroline Kettlewell | |
| 98743d9 | Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 08b1f51 | Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known. | postal | Terry Pratchett | |
| 79c52e6 | You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life. | laws-of-attraction inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 96bb1c8 | I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you. | harry-potter faith inspirational dumbledore | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2e77c64 | You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. | les-brown inspirational | Les Brown | |
| f268a52 | I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. | criticism inspirational art | Georgia O'Keefe | |
| 56ed34a | But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| bc7d2fe | You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 9ff1961 | Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fendin.. | sleep tourette-s insomnia | Jonathan Lethem | |
| e6abb4c | The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse. | Milan Kundera | ||
| e5089c3 | I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes t.. | home journey | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 43e4181 | Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8ab40a4 | Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 47a5544 | Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 89f8937 | Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world. | James Patterson | ||
| 1a05968 | Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. | Emily Brontë | ||
| ae53bf1 | Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity. | Dan Brown | ||
| 6564f8f | Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7ef5bdc | When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6e33157 | Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 58741a4 | Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f73325e | Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| cb8b861 | Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3ab92a8 | Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all. | Libba Bray | ||
| c872552 | There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 3bdf3c5 | It would all be fine, even if it went to hell, so long as he was here with her. | rowaelin rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 357e521 | In every way that counted, I failed him. | crown-of-midnight chaol-westfall failure | Sarah J. Maas | |
| fa80c91 | How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?" | world past truth simper | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 659a980 | About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone. | literature | Virginia Woolf | |
| 1507e0e | I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn." Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer. Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything." | fun humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 490cec4 | Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. | life expectation | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 7eb5fd4 | The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we've been, We've watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, And stare until their eyes pop out. (Last week in someone's place we saw A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) They sit and stare .. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 5f1b356 | Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them? | Voltaire | ||
| a468474 | It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness! | immortality future life procreation children | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 171ef3a | Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9dcb293 | The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. --NDT | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 1273297 | Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. | David Levithan |