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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ee1bcf3 | We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?" "Perfect timing." | glory-in-death glory eve-dallas | J.D. Robb | |
| dac0acb | Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand. | moving-on world depression kinsella shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | |
| b03381c | I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. | young | Dodie Smith (Cassandra Mortmain I Capture the Castle) | |
| 0786380 | It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2855b6d | I wonder what ants do on rainy days? | norwegian-wood | haruki murakami | |
| 171f81b | Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 00d095a | After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason. | the-stranger kami | Albert Camus | |
| a28705f | You may have taken the planet, but you will lose this game! | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8cf606e | You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| b46d38d | What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 3936aaa | We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 279489c | Frustration was my constant companion. I wanted to scream. "What the he-eck are we supposed to do I asked Fang. He looked at me, and I could tell he was mulling over the problem. He held out a small waxed-paper bag. Peanut?" | James Patterson | ||
| 14ed9c9 | The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. | William Golding | ||
| 0ff65fb | Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 12fee2f | Intention, good or bad, is not enough. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c028bc7 | Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. | money goodness honesty riches fame honor | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 6504c0d | I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!" | Douglas Adams | ||
| fc56b98 | We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a68ce72 | There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Siri.. | harry-potter order-of-phoenix j-k-rowling | J. K. Rowling | |
| 4c109ea | Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind. | sorcerers-stone sorting-hat ravenclaw | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5a4d82b | It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| def8a08 | Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 45287cb | There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat. | dichotomy threats | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0716a84 | Don't you ever do anything other than read?" said Chaol." | reading | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 64aebf5 | I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits. | solitude friendship privacy companionship quietness peace | Virginia Woolf | |
| 7f0f05a | On more than one occasion I have been ready to abandon my whole life for love. To alter everything that makes sense to me and to move into a different world where the only known will be the beloved. Such a sacrifice must be the result of love... or is it that the life itself was already worn out? I had finished with that life, perhaps, and could not admit it, being stubborn or afraid, or perhaps did not known it, habit being a great binder... | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 49d3ca5 | There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. | life | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 5c42fb4 | I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean. | words | George Eliot | |
| 4de2b16 | Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. | faith god love philosophy truth | Anonymous | |
| 4d8d1ce | T]he time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right | Harper Lee | ||
| f6fc1fd | At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation? | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 63733ed | The nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream is being strangled. The nights you fight best are when reason gets kicked in the gut, when the chariots of gloom encircle you. The nights you fight best are when the laughter of fools fills the air, when the kiss of death is mistaken for love. The nights you fight best are when the game is fixed, when the crowd screa.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 664295b | I like women who haven't lived with too many men. I don't expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven't been rubbed raw by experience. There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts. Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with feeling. When you play the field selfishly everything works agains.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 964ebc0 | Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 7902544 | it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart, as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as, uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be, i say if this should be- you of my heart, send me a little word; that i may go unto .. | E. E. Cummings | ||
| b00822f | I am never taking a trip with either of you ever again.' Eve said. 'Ever.' Excellent' Shane said. 'Then next trip, we hit the strip bar.' I have a gun, Shane,' Eve sighed. What, you think i actually loaded yours?' Eve flipped him off, and Claire laughed. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 8c674d3 | I'll do it!" "No, you won't," Shane and Michael said, at virtually the same time. Shane continued. "You're barely on your feet, Claire. You don't go anywhere, not without me." "And me," Michael said. "Hell," Eve sighed. "I guess that means I have to go, too. Which I may not ever forgive you for, even if I don't die horribly." | eve-rosser michael-glass morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 457f8b8 | If I could live again my life, In the next - I'll try, - to make more mistakes, I won't try to be so perfect, I'll be more relaxed... I'll take fewer things seriously.. I'll take more risks, I'll take more trips, I'll watch more sunsets, I'll climb more mountains, I'll swim more rivers, I'll go to more places I've never been I'll eat more ice ...I'll have more real problems and less imaginary ones If I could live again - I will travel light | Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| b3785e9 | Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 0f0e0f0 | Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. | Richard Bach | ||
| 5b660d3 | Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice Cream. I give you lots of kisses, And I give lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches With bugs In. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 005ceb3 | The difference is that was then, this is now. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 3fafcd5 | I don't see how Clary is something we have in common,' Simon said, although he did. Nevertheless, this wasn't a conversation he particularly wanted to have with Jace now, or, in fact, ever. Wasn't there some sort of manly code that precluded discussions like this--discussions about ? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b7a0a12 | Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad." | Ernest Hemingway |