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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 | government humor totalitarianism | 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.. | four kiss love 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. | child humor self | 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. | holocaust inspirational violence | 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. | inspirational leadership 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. | inspirational prayer | Oswald Chambers | |
| bfb739f | There is no one right way to live. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 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.. | cosmology life science | Mark Haddon | |
| 853f8f6 | If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. | religion spirituality | Karen Armstrong | |
| 205f4ad | The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. | reader reading stories story | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 3a82a4d | He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that she was still lying beside him. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9f1320a | m 'S`b 'n ykwn lmr mbSran fy mjtm` '`m~ | José Saramago | ||
| ab848d5 | Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us. | Richard Bach | ||
| 0d9a333 | If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough! | Shel Silverstein | ||
| e5695a1 | He's not the brightest crayola in the pack. | house-of-night | P.C. Cast | |
| e8a80bc | know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it. | goals inspirational proactivity | Nora Roberts | |
| c62b710 | Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. | family haunting imaginative inspirational murder personal-growth rape | Alice Sebold | |
| 46127aa | My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. | first-lines inspirational life-and-death opening-lines | 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 hell virtues | 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 | ||
| 77b27c2 | Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un ete invincible. | hardship seasons self strength 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.. | life perseverance struggle | 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 culture false-dichotomy | Stephen Fry | |
| 0ae7149 | We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay. | realm-of-possibility | David Levithan | |
| 41373a8 | jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2e1db44 | There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d1ee74f | It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle. | god | Leo Tolstoy |