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| 963eae3 | You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing. | Michael Ende | ||
| 68cece0 | The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration. I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together w.. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 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. | marriage love eugenides 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-" | funny tobias-and-tris insurgent tobias-eaton four 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." | thalia-grace hades | 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. | miracle god | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1e9ddf6 | We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. | women inspirational business career self-help | 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. | influence leadership 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 human-desire enjoy | 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. | joy beauty positive optimism life inspirational | Ashley Smith | |
| 3984470 | Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 9d3a912 | There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 28d55c0 | You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of reve.. | three-garridebs doyle watson sherlock-holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 7786231 | I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 80c3170 | Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| e99df30 | Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. | metaphors | Milan Kundera | |
| d6180de | The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. | of-human-bondage secret-of-life | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 750c8fe | Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 575c3e1 | I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e0f6482 | If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. | wisdom inspirational proverv chinese | Jodi Picoult | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| be95133 | My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the air!" And as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 127b49c | Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on them arrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 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 | ||
| d6e556a | Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 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 |