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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 229bde6 | I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day--spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient... I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be--perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I--I am powerfu.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 6c08084 | Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 7be0120 | Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or.. | Albert Camus | ||
| b762ce8 | You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 86d9764 | I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy. | philosophy | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| 0c2d79f | How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. | courage freedom serenity terrorism stoicism | Salman Rushdie | |
| c0327f4 | No, I don't love Max anymore. But I don't want to give you this broken, empty me. I want you to have me when I'm full, when I can give something back to you. I don't have much to give right now. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 2c51fe7 | quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean "love" in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach .. | Joan Didion | ||
| ce0b6d5 | She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness... | Ayn Rand | ||
| bffd6d3 | Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. | tears | Charles Dickens | |
| bffa972 | The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3252d25 | There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. | lovers romance love separation | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 014fa22 | My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first" -- | Douglas Adams | ||
| 23cadce | Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking. | riddle | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| bf2a1df | My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments--we hear a word that sticks in our mind--or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly--we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small .. | meaning_of_life moments | Douglas Coupland | |
| 892275e | We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination. | life facts-of-life walking-on-water quotes | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 185d8be | To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities--I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not--that one endures. | friendship philosophy inspirational endurance | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 5349ff1 | Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page." | jealousy harry-potter fame | J.K. Rowling | |
| a8d4cae | The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind was in freefall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossiblity, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying - | weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3aaa4e4 | War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 4462d8b | My dad always said that when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just hard as what you're going through | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e2c9d30 | I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 3279ab3 | Let's make this a fight worthy of a song. | throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 405662f | Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections." | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 84a4a00 | The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. | tragedy loneliness | Alan Lightman | |
| c264e62 | And always, there was the magic of learning things. | Betty Smith | ||
| 8fb0924 | I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 7e2fbcb | No legacy is so rich as honesty. | legacy | William Shakespeare | |
| 0e56f3a | She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 73d12ce | Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 1c2d81f | How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. | fear peace | Bram Stoker | |
| edb06ea | We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 75994b0 | I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 748f9d0 | Alec?" Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was empty but for the two of them. "Did you just- did you just save my life?" Alec knew he ought to say something like, Of course, because I'm a Shadowhunter and that's what we do, or That's my job. Jace would have said something like that. Jace always knew the right thing to say. But the words that actually came out of Alec's mouth where quite d.. | humor magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6acd543 | She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war. | war history life clary-fray jace-wayland mortal-instruments marks | Cassandra Clare | |
| 54141ec | Charlotte, who had sagged back in her chair, her eyes half-closed, said, "Will, I have already been up all night copying down the relevant parts. Much of it was--" "Gibberish?" Jem suggested. "Pornographic?" said Will at the same time. "Could be both," said Will. "Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ca9260b | You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of being four years old at the beach, crying when the wind came up and blew away the castle she had made. Her mother had told her she could make another one if she liked, but it hadn't stopped her crying because what she had thought was permanent was not permanent after all, but only made out of sand that vanished at the touch of wind an.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 468c138 | Beannacht / Blessing On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. When the canvas frays in the currach of thought and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you, may there come across the waters a pat.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 506fce0 | You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before. | John Green | ||
| 2afd054 | It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" | John Green | ||
| a7ac13c | For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed. | women-s-liberation | Caitlin Moran | |
| f7a8e38 | You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world... | Jean Rhys | ||
| b205f86 | You're right though. I should have discussed my plan with you. I'm sorry. From now on, I promise I will consult with you before I do anything you don't expect. Is that exceptable?' (Eragon) Only if it involves weapons, magic, kings, or family members.' (Saphira) Or flowers.' (Eragon) Or flowers. I don't need to know if you decide to eat some bread and cheese in the middle of the night.' (Saphira) | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 6cb1d53 | Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan |