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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e974ee2 | You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. | Richard Bach | ||
| 72c4859 | Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.' . . . . I says, 'What's this call, this sperit?' An' I says, 'It's love. I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.' . . . . I figgered, 'Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d76e5d1 | He never fell, never slipped back, never flew. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 579f8b5 | You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| f58bc84 | We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. | the-virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| e77528c | Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look..." Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt. "Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please." | simon the-summoning | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 5d795c7 | Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 435671a | The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| b6d3022 | It's always tea-time. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 609c4d8 | We would be outnumbered a couple hundred to two, by something worse than Erasers. I had no idea if the rest of the Flock would be able to help. It was pretty much a suicide mission. 'There is one bright side to this,' said Fang. 'Yeah? What's that?' The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us? He grinned at me so unexpectedly that I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. 'You looove me,' he crooned sm.. | James Patterson | ||
| 95e66be | The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 89e5d63 | If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| e121d39 | What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 922ee87 | The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. | John le Carré | ||
| 2fbf3a9 | Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night. | rosa-hubermann the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 921440d | And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a32c7c9 | As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b65d474 | That I shall love always, I argue thee | love | Emily Dickinson | |
| bc6f381 | My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers." -- | self-esteem | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 52058f4 | I keep smiling, giving Ash a little wink before turning around. Daemon stood there with two cups, one eyebrow arched. "Bad little Kitten," he murmured. Grinning, I stretch up and kissed him." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0b96b05 | Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7c20f27 | I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick. | kel | Tamora Pierce | |
| 671f660 | Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called , or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament--the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana--is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platoni.. | ancient-greeks atheism boredom brotherhood cana christianity entheos food hellenism inspiration iran judaea marriage-at-cana miracles mullahs new-testament omar-khayyam oxford passover passover-seder plato reading religion symposia wine writing | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 00d1fd4 | All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5f7234b | But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love. | remorse sorrow sorry stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 99a08aa | And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. | Stephen King | ||
| c90cf51 | I came to you, Jane. Every night this week, I came to you. I didn't want you to be alone. And I didn't want to sleep without you." -Vishous" -- | j-r-ward vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 29bd5c6 | High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change. | system | John Green | |
| 8c621e2 | The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you | wisdom | Brian Tracy | |
| e82a72d | You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you're as blind as a mole, you're a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent could use some work." Supporting himself on his elbows, Leo took her face in his hands. "But when I put those things together with the rest of you, it makes you into the most perfectly imperfect woman I've ever known." | lisa-kleypas love | Lisa Kleypas | |
| daa0949 | All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn't equal what I feel for you in one minute of the day. I love you so much there is no pleasure in it. Nothing but torment. Because if I could dilute what I feel for you to the millionth part, it would still be enough to kill you. And even if it drives me mad, I would rather see you live in the arms of that cold, soulless bastard than die in mine," Merripen said to Win." | merripen museum win | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 2ae7a50 | Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well." | Veronica Roth | ||
| bc56f55 | I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole. | belief fourtris genes love tobias-eaton tris-prior wholeness | Veronica Roth | |
| 83b5f34 | It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 8cd28ec | Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life. | dedication talent | Irving Stone | |
| 83f0b16 | The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a.. | mortality | Brandon Mull | |
| 6798932 | I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored. | erotica sex | Anaïs Nin | |
| 7e9888d | Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of , Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this . But that's not enough to set me apart. | heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan son-of-hades | Rick Riordan | |
| 82002e5 | Piper patted his shoulder. "Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie." | piper | Rick Riordan | |
| eaca89d | Annabeth didn't want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. "Percy, wake me for second watch. Don't be a hero." He gave her that smirk she'd come to love. "Who, me?" He kissed her, his lips parched and feverishly warm. "Sleep." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 760104d | She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes. | Holly Black | ||
| 6853e55 | Just be yourself and you'll be fine | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| ed14b81 | My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. | inspirational self-esteem | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 27fe791 | You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you're faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you'll overcome it. Yes, you can. | challenge difficulty inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett |