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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 life exist | Libba Bray | |
| 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. | solitude loneliness escape relationship fear love community | Bell Hooks | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | quote moon blake blue | 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 | ||
| 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. | strength questions | 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. | friendship life growing-up endings | 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. | humour percy-jackson frank-zhang jason-grace leo-valdez | 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 | inspirational dreamers ambition believe | 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. | life love inspirational | Gerard Way | |
| 3b0f25f | Bring something incomprehensible into the world! | individuality life inspirational otherness art new | Gilles Deleuze | |
| 1aeba29 | The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. | enlightenment humor inspirational road difficulties | 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 | |
| df8358c | Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. | rhinoceros-times | Orson Scott Card | |
| ce88d73 | Wot Wot | Brian Jacques | ||
| 3304c41 | Oh no I know that look. What are you thinking? That this is the most ridiculous declaration of attraction I've ever heard | daemon katy declarations-of-love | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 375e63f | When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 830de2e | Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. | time | Haruki Murakami |