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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 781ca70 | As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting me go, leaving me to the black universe I had wandered for so many lifetimes. I drifted into the black, and it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't black at all - it was blue. Warm, vibrant, brilliant blue...I floated into it with no fear at all. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 4a56c65 | Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| cfb7403 | Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing." | mindfulness | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 7669b7f | I have the strangest feeling that he's aware of me as I am of him. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1de4fec | I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d2f3a3d | It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?" at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back "Yeah. You want pepperoni?" -Maximum Ride" | max | James Patterson | |
| 1a8a012 | We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance. " | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 3d64baf | There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change." | David Levithan | ||
| bd8a354 | The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own. | Colum McCann | ||
| b1e10e0 | According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it. | religion | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4669ab5 | I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia" | kheldar prince-kheldar silk | David Eddings | |
| 288b280 | Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows. | inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| 96a0ed4 | Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential. | crisis life thriving | Jeannette Walls | |
| 0e4a07b | When the clergy addressed on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never on any occasion said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not. They did so. However [Dr. Rush] observed the old fox was too cunning for them. He answered every arti.. | disbelief founding-fathers-religion george-washington gouverneur-morris irreligious morris washington | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 945f0e2 | Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 7ab84aa | Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. | philosophy | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 374f4d2 | On the other hand, she was a women with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories. Whether it happened in ten months or ten years, Holly would obey Gerry's final message. Whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart and follow where it led. In the meantime, she would just live. | ps | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 0689c80 | You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| e778234 | It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner. | manners | Georgette Heyer | |
| f44b0ab | His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will's were the color of the sky just on the edge of night. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 365d135 | From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace | love obsession | Cassandra Clare | |
| 84fd953 | Life is no way to treat an animal. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 1c13506 | There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough. | questions strength | John Green | |
| fa9cafa | Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 70f6db3 | Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| dae61ba | It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. | endings friendship growing-up life | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 3b468d9 | One may know how to conquer without being able to do it. | Sun Tzu | ||
| a6bd708 | According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn't get him. Unfortunately, he lost the laundry bag with your pants." "Dang it!" Frank Barked, which Leo figured was probably severe profanity for him. No doubt Frank would've cursed some more -busting out the golly gees and the gosh darns- but Percy interrupted by doubling over and groaning. | frank-zhang humour jason-grace leo-valdez percy-jackson | rick riordan the mark of athena | |
| 9e6de15 | I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit. Walk with me," he said. Where to?" I asked suspiciously. Just to the campfire," he said. "I was beginning to feel better, so I thought I would talk with you a bit. You always manage to annoy me." Uh, thanks." | the-battle-of-the-labyrinth | Rick Riordan | |
| 54f3062 | Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell how to defeat Set?" "Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| eb50b52 | Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone | ambition believe dreamers inspirational | Lana Del Rey | |
| 32cf774 | You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. | inspirational life love | Gerard Way | |
| 3b0f25f | Bring something incomprehensible into the world! | art individuality inspirational life new otherness | Gilles Deleuze | |
| 1aeba29 | The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. | difficulties enlightenment humor inspirational road | Anne Lamott | |
| c949d74 | For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool. | inspirational | APJ Abdul Kalam | |
| 3f5f1d9 | Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. | inspirational | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| 9644924 | For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon.. | inspirational | Helen Keller | |
| fb731af | Let us pick up our books and our pens," I said. "They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. | education inspirational | Malala Yousafzai | |
| a2c32fd | A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings. | inspirational | William Blake | |
| 2010aee | For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 48538cb | And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 797615f | A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. | humour love lovers sheep | Agatha Christie | |
| 4b0f220 | if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. | fantasy fiction humor illusions imaginary imagination on-fiction reality | Norton Juster | |
| 83cc6b3 | It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself. | Khaled Hosseini |