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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8bf92b7 | A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. | motivational inspirational gentlemen gentleman chivalry manners politeness | Haruki Murakami | |
| 0b4a59e | It's not like love at first sight, really. It's more like... gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her... You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that's a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother. | obsession | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 43e450c | How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 12c4907 | My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, | Maya Angelou | ||
| b07c20c | The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. | rain weather | Dr. Seuss | |
| e31c5d3 | Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| b1eae9b | It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. | sex-appeal | Raymond Chandler | |
| 01a6827 | yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ef73662 | The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died. | education culture | Plato | |
| dfe319e | If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 11f2561 | Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world. | kissing lovers kiss love | J.K. Rowling | |
| e1c8f89 | I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 48127e1 | And then," Ress was saying, his boyish face set with fiendish delight, "just as he got her into bed, stark naked as the day he was born, her father walked in"- winces and groans came from the guards, even Chaol himself-"and he dragged him out of bed by his feet, took him down the hall, and dumped him down the stairs. He was shrieking like a pig the whole time." Chaol leaned back in his seat, crossing his arms. "You would be, too, if someon.. | crown-of-midnight chaol-westfall throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 366c33d | Nix clasped her hands over her chest, sighing, "He gave you his heart. That's so romantic. So much better than a candy heart. Those get stuck in the fangs, you know." | heart iad lothaire kresley-cole | Kresley Cole | |
| 8b67d78 | Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? | poetry writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| 8380d1b | Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget. | love | Judith McNaught | |
| 93f6870 | If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. | religion love | James Baldwin | |
| 9486abd | She was a girl with a mountain to climb. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a5ffad5 | The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 60a9953 | Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. | criticisms true-friends | George Eliot | |
| 6db977e | Never let anyone know what you are thinking. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 56b28c4 | Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 8264e00 | One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5db2c2f | I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev." Barabas sighed dramatically. "Kate, you make me despair. Let's try that again from the top, except this time pretend you are an alpha." "I don't need a lecture. I just need the book." "Much better. Little more growl in the voice?" "Barabas!" "And we're there. Congratulations!" | magic-slays ilona-andrews kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4755ed0 | Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. | machismo masculinity | David Sedaris | |
| 2f4b607 | A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. The human embryos that are destroyed in stem-cell research do not have brains, or even neurons. Consequently, there is no reason to believe they can suffer their destruction in any way at all. It is worth remembered, in this context, that when a person's brain has died, we curre.. | Sam Harris | ||
| a8c75c7 | Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?" | religion humor rebuttal zealots | Isaac Asimov | |
| 1c700cd | because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8bf8072 | I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you? | religion life sunsets | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8a4009a | If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. | timidity | Neil Gaiman | |
| 72c8bbd | We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 35c424b | No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart. | Bram Stoker | ||
| c8aa4a7 | In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. | self | Oscar Wilde | |
| 75fcf43 | That's right. Act like rejected . It's not like you tried to kill me or anything. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| ab6af0a | I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 934e1f5 | Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. | laughter | Stephen King | |
| dfde706 | Wrath dragged Beth into his arms and hugged her hard, talking in that other language again. When he pulled back, he ended the monologue with something like leelan. Beth: "Is that vampire talk for bitch?" | dark-lover-p-248 | J.R. Ward | |
| 553270d | It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 4283f8c | Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it. | life-journey outsider | Elizabeth Lowell | |
| 7710420 | His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life | John Green | ||
| 8aac71f | Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked .. | John Green | ||
| 4743e71 | Dogs have their day but cats have 365. | dogs funny | Lilian Jackson Braun | |
| 899446b | Why are you constantly escorting me places?" I say. "Isn't there a depraved activity you're supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?" | Veronica Roth | ||
| 6efc52d | One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol. | beatrice-prior insurgent tobias-eaton divergent four tris veronica-roth | Veronica Roth |