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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a6709d | Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him. | life inspirational | T.D. Jakes | |
| 5092a65 | If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 108e4ab | On a good day, the animosity levels between us were usually at CODE RED. Bad days they were at CODE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU. | seth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| cc90288 | The wheel weaves as the wheel wills | Robert Jordan | ||
| b5b993e | Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. | social-justice civil-disobedience non-violence anti-war | Arundhati Roy | |
| 6df38de | no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 4ec31fa | Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 339ddbc | When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? | self-abnegation | Jodi Picoult | |
| fa6c186 | Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface. | Roald Dahl | ||
| b8c68c2 | Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac? | C.S. Lewis | ||
| e777fda | You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live. | writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| cda0bd3 | If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin | pain heartbreak robin | Emily Dickinson | |
| 4955b66 | I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 12eec12 | This sentence is made of lead (and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of magnesium). This sentence is made of yak wool. This sentence is made of sunlight and plums. This sentence is made of ice. This sentence is made from the blood of the poet. This sentence was made in Japan. This sentence glows in the dark. This sentence was born with a caul. This sentence has a crush on Norman Mailer. This sen.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6d3b332 | This sentence is made of lead (and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of magnesium). This sentence is made of yak wool. This sentence is made of sunlight and plums. This sentence is made of ice. This sentence is made from the blood of the poet. This sentence was made in Japan. This sentence glows in the dark. This sentence was born with a caul. This sentence has a crush on Norman Mailer. This sen.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a75c081 | But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will. | heroes gallantry lord-of-the-rings oath | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| df61577 | I survived, but it's not a happy ending. | life survival | Tim O'Brien | |
| 7a0e66b | Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6311444 | And at long last, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius was home. | queen-of-terrasen terrasen aelin-ashryver-galathynius | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 5827552 | I turned. "I was asking about Jurian, the king, the queens, and the Cauldron, but I'm glad to know I have so many options where our relationship stands. And that you'll do whatever I want. I must have you wrapped completely around my finger." His eyes danced with feline amusement. "Cruel, beautiful thing." -- | rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 9fd15b9 | There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world. | travel life inspirational | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| db2d82a | nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7c67463 | Love, that moves the sun and the other stars | love sun | Dante Alighieri | |
| b228240 | Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender | spiritual | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 5cdc30e | Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. | life | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 7647974 | When in doubt, be ridiculous. | fast-thinking uncertainty decision | Sherwood Smith | |
| c409c32 | Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK? | Bill Watterson | ||
| d03f7e3 | I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares. | nightmares | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 498031b | She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in h.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| e811ef3 | I heard this girl worked for Bishop,' said one of the guys, who had a tire iron resting on his shoulder. 'Carrying around his death warrants. Like one of those Nazi collaborators.' 'You heard wrong,' Shane said. 'She's my girl. Now back off.' 'Let's hear from her,' said the leader of the pack, and locked stares with Claire. 'So? You working for the vamps?' Shane sent her a quick, warning glance. Claire took in a deep breath and said, 'Ab.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 3187442 | A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| ca193c3 | Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. | inspirational | William James | |
| 7adf92a | So what if nobody came? I'll have all the ice cream and tea, And I'll laugh with myself, | Shel Silverstein | ||
| a8420eb | And the tree was happy | tree shel silverstein | Shel Silverstein | |
| 745c129 | Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly." Aphrodite" | P.C. Cast | ||
| 9e2b49e | I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 8d4df41 | He wants to put his story next to hers. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 625d36d | Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet." | ernest hemingway | ||
| 1a3bfd0 | As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient lit.. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 76e581c | It's only forever... Not long at all. | John Green | ||
| 122f95a | Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS). | John Green | ||
| 49241e9 | It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching G.. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| a014c1c | And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a7161d9 | I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies | Christopher Paolini |