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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1ae7acd | I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conce.. | metaphor secrets simile the-blind-assassin | Margaret Atwood | |
| 66b4f88 | I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 1e26888 | Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 1722298 | Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 20befba | I have two friends, Steve and Martin. But I'd happily replace both for the friendship of Steve Martin. | Jarod Kintz | ||
| 494940f | My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct. | family love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 857daa6 | Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 399c2ac | Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die. | Stephen King | ||
| 3d37e84 | Look, you didn't fail me. Because you can't fail at the impossible." -Zsadist to Phury" | J.R. Ward | ||
| 1aec4d8 | Enough, Qhuinn thought. Enough with the excuses and the avoidance, and trying to be someone else, anyone else. Even if he got shanked, even if his precious little ego and his dumbass little heart got shattered into a million pieces, it was time to stop the bullshit. It was time to be a male. As Blay started to straighten like a message had been received, Qhuinn thought, | love quinn | J.R. Ward | |
| f0f5381 | The thirst for something other than what we have...to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 9572d8d | Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." -- | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 741461c | I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with. | John Green | ||
| b220fd2 | You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?" | Veronica Roth | ||
| 95dba26 | Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. | betrayal clever cleverness deceiving | George R.R. Martin | |
| 98daa55 | We all dream of things we cannot have. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| bdc4d9b | Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now I want to write you, talk with you... I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good. I say all that happens is wonderful. For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living - god, Henry, in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness... Before, I almost used to t.. | passion | Anaïs Nin | |
| 9cf5928 | In fact, he's never taken an interest in a woman before. I was beginning to to suspect he might prefer one of his male sneaks, but now..." She paused dramatically. "Now, we have the lovely, intelligent Yelena to get Valek's cold heart pumping." "You really should get out of your sewing room more. You need fresh air and a dose of reality," I said knowing better than to believe a word Dilana said, but unable to control the silly little grin o.. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 40c1fb6 | When we reached the door, Belen stepped in the way. 'If any harm--' 'Comes to her, you'll rip out my arms. Got it,' Kerrick said. 'I'm serious,' Belen said. 'I know. Do you really think I'd put her in danger?' 'Not on purpose, but things happen that are out of control.' Kerrick gave him a tight smile. 'You mean I'm not omnipotent?' 'You're not even semi-potent.' 'Is that even a word?' Kerrick asked. 'He probably means you're impotent,' I .. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 2ef3852 | That's it, cupcake. You're going down. | humor trash-talk | Rick Riordan | |
| 54ece87 | Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. "How come I never get invited on these violent trips?" | heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| bcdebc7 | Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava pouring down it?" "Little extra challenge..." - Percy" | climbing-wall lava nico-di-angelo percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-titan-s-curse | Rick Riordan | |
| b4dd44f | Eternity with Artemis?" He heaved a big sigh. Thalia rolled her eyes. "You satyrs. You're all in love with Artemis. Don't you get that she'll never love you back?" "But she's so...into nature," Grover swooned. "You're nuts," said Thalia. "Nuts and berries," Grover said dreamily. "Yeah." | grover-underwood thalia-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| 1af0f47 | The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bbd5078 | Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5c88d0c | Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade... | inspirational life motivational reality | King James Gadsden | |
| 07f131e | Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment | inspirational life success | Oprah Winfrey | |
| 009c541 | We are what we believe we are! | amazing bright inspirational truth | C.S. Lewis | |
| 75d7ef6 | For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. | inspirational | Viktor E. Frankl | |
| c55b9bc | Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair. But the painting has also taught me that we can speak to each other across time. And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to say to you, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should say it as urgently as if I were standing in the room with you. That life--whatever else it is--is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not rando.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| a89ea1c | I'm a werewolf trapped in a human body." "Well, yeah, that's kind of the definition." "No, really. I'm trapped." "Oh? When was the last time you shape-shifted?" "That's just it - I've never shape-shifted." "So you're not really a werewolf." "Not yet. But I was meant to be one, I just know it. How do I get a werewolf to attack me?" Stand in the middle of a forest under a full moon with a raw steak tied to your face, holding a sign that says,.. | stupidity werewolves | Carrie Vaughn | |
| f7d7a97 | I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 2df2a94 | But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. | community escape fear loneliness love relationship solitude | Bell Hooks | |
| 84ddbd6 | The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 52144d7 | I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses... | severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 511bd98 | How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books? | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| f814306 | You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs? | destiny exist life | Libba Bray | |
| a0e471f | I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened. | snow | Rachel Cohn | |
| 57d5adc | LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| d21b2c2 | Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don't want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight. | blake blue moon quote | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 04da7d3 | But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas. | P.C. Cast | ||
| 3f87879 | Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. | reason responsibility | Ayn Rand | |
| 50a5483 | We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. | discipline writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| 8a3c6a1 | Stupid, shiny Volvo owner. | Stephenie Meyer |