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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4daba19 | It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 2e416cc | Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f733c56 | What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? | loneliness | George Eliot | |
| 38dd9ff | Human beings suffer, They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. The innocent in gaols Beat on their bars together. A hunger-striker's father Stands in the graveyard dumb. The police widow in veils Faints at the funeral home. History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And ho.. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| d6ef31b | We live by faith and not by sight. | live sight | Anonymous | |
| 578cbda | Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 08fc88c | I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2ccf6ad | In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief. | grief | Emily Giffin | |
| fb94fb1 | I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| f81e110 | She's so small, yet she contains so much evil. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 6da04f1 | She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 09daced | If you sit down and think about it , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people inquisitive, and then put some forbidden fruit where they can see it with a big neon finger flashing on and off saying 'THIS IS IT!'? ... I mean, why do that if you really don't them to eat it, eh? I mean, maybe you just want to see how it all turns out. Maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan. All of it. You, me, him, everything... | fantasy religion humor life | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6734d8d | Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 1c21a73 | Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds | trust jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| d2d295b | I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar. The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is 'I'm full of shit. | John Green | ||
| 0cf6d8b | I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now. | John Green | ||
| 395beae | Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning. "Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor," Uriah says. "Yeah, whatever," says Zeke. They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other's backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them." | Veronica Roth | ||
| d203b87 | Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3a4a172 | I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 76013fc | I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will. | self-determination | Christopher Paolini | |
| 80c3620 | Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace." "Whatever," the god said." | the-mark-of-athena rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 0a4a26b | Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies. | madoc the-cruel-prince jude | Holly Black | |
| 7f7ef38 | Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you've fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you'd st.. | Holly Black | ||
| 6c6c7ec | And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they had earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experime.. | dogs | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9828ab7 | I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: 'Have you HEARD THIS? | science philosophy inspirational connectedness perspective knowledge | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| ed41df7 | Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground. | inspirational | Katie Kacvinsky | |
| 6d05a8e | Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward. | inspirational | Ben Carson | |
| 50f8e8f | There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. | reading inspirational literacy | Frank Serafini | |
| 079c647 | Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. | politics inspirational latin | Ronald Reagan | |
| f7c6244 | It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. | romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting | Jocelyn Soriano | |
| a3f35f3 | Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence." -- | Henning Mankell | ||
| 3ca6e8a | Damon Laughed. "I'm only at the service of one person in particular." My cheeks flamed as I scooted my chair over. "You are not servicing me in any way." He leaned in, closing my newly gained distance. "Not yet." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a3824bd | Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 334f327 | Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you. | Milan Kundera | ||
| e1d30cb | Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights. | sadness darkness music movie-theatres summer-nights freshness smell rock-and-roll girls tears summer intimacy | Haruki Murakami | |
| f63d5f9 | Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 72e9a61 | And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.) KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS! So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 3957141 | You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you. | world margot trippy | Paul Auster | |
| e0e6422 | It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 838de0b | About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure." | James Frey | ||
| 0bcc06b | You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 86d30e2 | Fear is the mind-killer. | fear litany serenity panic | Frank Herbert | |
| 108be42 | Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. | patriarchy language | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| d2d6fdb | She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making. | Edith Wharton |