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| 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 | ||
| 4c9f74e | Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on. You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will die a soft, poor death. You will die with a kiss on your lips and a lie in your heart." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| ad7b158 | Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between. | spells | Neil Gaiman | |
| 06c4d8f | Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the point of view of others, and not just those in power; to contemplate--with the best teachers--the insights, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history. They allow people long dead to talk inside our heads. Books can accom.. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 52b9e67 | The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen | humor inspirational | Stephen King | |
| e449b48 | After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate. | J.R. Ward | ||
| a62cb0b | available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| f2c732c | He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. | eugenides love marriage royalty | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 2b7500e | Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-" | four funny insurgent tobias-and-tris tobias-eaton tris veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 2ca1c3b | You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine. | Dorothy Parker | ||
| ac25ee7 | If he fancied her anymore,' Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, 'I'd be trying to kiss Arya myself.' 'Saphira!' Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 8f0b04a | Artemis smiled. "You have done well, my lieutenant. You have made me proud, and all those Hunters who perished in my service will never be forgotten. They will achieve Elysium, I am sure." She glared pointedly at Hades. He shrugged. "Probably." Artemis glared at him some more. Okay," Hades grumbled. "I'll streamline their application process." | hades thalia-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| 665c6c0 | At first I was protecting you two because I promised. Now even if I hadn't promised, I would. You two are like kittens to me. I won't fail you again." I'll admit I got a lump in my throat. I'd never been called someone's kitten before. Sadie sniffled. She brushed something from under her eye. "You're not going to wash us, are you?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 062f885 | The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us... | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| f1f1c4f | You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a38c26c | Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live? | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 84e08cb | Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle. | god miracle | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1e9ddf6 | We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. | business career inspirational self-help women | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 6fd0196 | One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires. | enjoy human-desire influence inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leadership life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| f44c822 | Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. | beauty inspirational joy life optimism positive | Ashley Smith | |
| e94d6b7 | Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable. | fear | Mercedes Lackey | |
| f7ac9a2 | Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| c63ae16 | I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that's the lot. There's no mercy in things. There's not even a Great Beyond. There's nothing. | insect nihilism nihilistic | John Fowles | |
| 9080df3 | To every problem, there is a most simple solution. | inspirational | Agatha Christie | |
| f0f6b3b | I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last.. | rape rape-survivor raped trauma | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 4e2183b | I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0f6d46d | Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 99d2d0e | ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 4096e7e | Brida's eyes filled with tears. She was proud of her Soulmate. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you. You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. Knowing that my Soulmate would come one day, I devoted myself to learning the Tradition of the Sun. Knowing that you existed was my one reason for continuin.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2eaab2a | I tramp a perpetual journey. | perpetual tramp travel | Walt Whitman | |
| 1e31cab | The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. | stealing theft | William Shakespeare | |
| f7432b1 | Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? -- in ancient astronauts? -- in the Bermuda triangle? -- in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. | faith skepticism ufo | Isaac Asimov | |
| 4e152c3 | That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea. | life wisdom | Nora Roberts | |
| 62602fe | It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3a21875 | It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I'd envision his face. | love | Anne Rice | |
| e65ffdd | So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood. He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin." -- | edward | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 8d65ecd | It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 76c1ff8 | There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 57ccb8d | I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 19047ea | text message) CMDR ROOT. TRBLE BELOW. HAVN OVRRN BY GOBLINS. PLCE PLAZA SRROUNDED. CUDGEON + OPL KBOI BHND PLOT. NO WPONS OR CMMUNICATIONS. DNA CNONS CNTRLLED BY KBOI. I M TRPPED IN OP BTH. CNCL THNKS IM 2 BLM. IF ALIVE PLSE HLP. IF NOT, WRNG NMBR. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| bac4d5f | They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of his misery; think of his danger -- look at his state when left alone; remember his headlong nature; consider the recklessness following on despair -- soothe him; save him; love him; tell him you love him and will be his. Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do?" Still indomitable was the reply -- "I care for myself.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| bc57f01 | I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| b3b248d | It was the face of spring, it was the face of summer, it was the warmness of clover breath. Pomegranate glowed in her lips, and the noon sky in her eyes. To touch her face was that always new experience of opening your window one December morning, early, and putting out your hand to the first white cool powdering of snow that had come, silently, with no announcement, in the night. And all of this, this breath-warmness and plum-tenderness wa.. | Ray Bradbury |