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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 75ae33c | What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again. | Stephen King | ||
| 43ee8a0 | My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. | John Green | ||
| a5f1327 | No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 5785146 | Everything not forbidden is compulsory | humor totalitarianism government | T.H. White | |
| 42275d6 | I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish tha.. | kiss love four tris | Veronica Roth | |
| 3f293ac | The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice... | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ff6369e | If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could. | humor self child | Emma Donoghue | |
| 269349e | You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 8d0d6b8 | Love was the most savage monster of all. | love | Rick Riordan | |
| e658fe9 | Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cb869ea | Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. | violence inspirational holocaust | Yehuda Bauer | |
| 7401058 | Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent. | leadership inspirational power | Sanaya Roman | |
| 82eefb5 | Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on. | inspirational | Arakawa Hiromu | |
| 08e8135 | We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. | prayer inspirational | Oswald Chambers | |
| f1e8598 | Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his .. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| bc1bfdf | Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| abd0d22 | You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. | libraries | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 023944c | Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And gue.. | sophie-kinsella | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 7376777 | I think what I've realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 63ddfc4 | Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f335f1c | Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9906f6a | Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1a9cb29 | Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August] | nostalgia | William Faulkner | |
| 55cc622 | Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.' Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 9360e08 | They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 77b27c2 | Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un ete invincible. | seasons strength hardship self summer | Albert Camus | |
| b001381 | You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 55ffa50 | Was Paco in here? | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 187d1b0 | Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispens.. | struggle perseverance life | Henry James | |
| ca62da9 | I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for.. | celebrity-worship false-dichotomy culture | Stephen Fry | |
| 59a7b6f | Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e8a80bc | know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it. | inspirational proactivity goals | Nora Roberts | |
| c62b710 | Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. | rape murder family inspirational haunting imaginative personal-growth | Alice Sebold | |
| 46127aa | My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. | inspirational first-lines opening-lines life-and-death | Alice Sebold | |
| 09a3e04 | Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people do whatever they believe is the right thing to do. Being virtuous is hard, not easy. The idea of doing good things simply because you're good seems like a zero-sum game; I'm not even sure those actions would still qualify as 'good,' since they'd merely be a function of normal behavior. Regardless of what kind of god you believe in--a .. | good virtues hell | Chuck Klosterman | |
| a874bcb | Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 16da174 | Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing. | passion stoicism | Nora Roberts | |
| 4e3e988 | Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 373ea8c | Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don't know that is what they're trapped by, their little script. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| b899703 | Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| cf72b0e | When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word -- just to look at them and think. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wished they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in -- that's stronger. It's a good thing.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 43c0167 | And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin. "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks." | nymphadora-tonks remus-lupin | J.K. Rowling | |
| ac7972a | And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood. 'No - no - no!' someone was shouting. 'No! Fred! No!' And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face. | fred-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 18cdbb5 | And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don't even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligibl.. | science life cosmology | Mark Haddon |