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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | spirituality religion | 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. | story reading reader stories | 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 | ||
| bfb739f | There is no one right way to live. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| d1ee74f | It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle. | god | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 2e815e2 | Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not "if only." Not "as long as." I matter equally. Full stop." | feminist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| e4d7716 | I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 472e27a | The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 887d7a1 | I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4e39f76 | You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0f92d94 | And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? - | prufrock | T.S. Eliot | |
| 1f830c8 | The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. | regret | Oscar Wilde | |
| 9e6741b | Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked? Jace: I was following you. Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? | love jace-lightwood simon-lewis sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3fed095 | So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 3850493 | I was going to kill someone today. I just wasn't sure who when I woke up this morning. I do love mornings. So full of possibilities. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 14d9cdc | I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| e4b24ab | There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone... they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul. | memories love shadowhunters soul | Cassandra Clare | |
| 177d579 | Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b9da9cf | You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die? Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point wher.. | metaphors | Stephen King | |
| 142fe93 | But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say." | John Green | ||
| 1b23ff9 | I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway] | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| f17c986 | pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand -- and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 17f1df6 | I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. | factions tobias veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| a7e11d2 | I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 748e1e3 | If you ever leave me again,' she said, her eyes stinging, 'I swear to all the gods-' Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth. 'Consider me warned,' Percy said. 'I missed you, too. | love percy-jackson | rick riordan | |
| 0a9f9ed | Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| f1d7161 | It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be--even if it isn't what you expected. | life | Jim Butcher | |
| 0632e42 | A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her. | witches witchcraft | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4967ff2 | You say freak, I say unique. | looks oddity people positivity life inspirational inspirational-quote inner-beauty freak ethereal appreciation interesting odd weird attraction imperfections strange unique beautiful | Christian Baloga | |
| b9b0c4b | If you are a dreamer come in | inspirational | Shel Silverstein | |
| 40e71ab | Dear Human | happiness love inspirational healing | Courtney A. Walsh | |
| db3bc82 | Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them. | life inspirational decisions | Mhairi McFarlane | |
| bd2707b | I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. | leadership inspirational self-control | Robert E. Lee | |
| 91247c4 | Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. "But by throwing yourself into these emotions,.. | pain grief life love truth detachment emotions vulnerability | Mitch Albom | |
| 9bbee66 | to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people...That is why God tells us so many times to love each other. | Donald Miller | ||
| dcd56e2 | Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. | kingdom-of-fear morality wisdom | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 2f928fa | I can't keep pretending that I don't want this - that I don't want you. I can't. Not after what happened to you. It thought... I thought I'd lost you, Alex, forever. And I would've lost everything. You my everything. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |