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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e6e8f37 | My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. | grief loss faith stillbirth grieving | C.S. Lewis | |
| d03aecf | They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v) | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 888f108 | Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched. | judgement | Albert Camus | |
| 82f6d28 | Har. Bloody. Har. | humor | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 8b59221 | When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It's astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all the time but (a) never happen anymore, and (b) never even cross your mind. It's almost like those things didn't happen. Or m.. | living regret remembering nostalgia | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 2fb1c2d | She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. | Nora Roberts | ||
| c0fe4f7 | But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come. | Jack London | ||
| 5e9753d | In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. | injustice education punishment fair-play | Charles Dickens | |
| 3ae8655 | Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got... | Julian Barnes | ||
| 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 | ||
| 9d3bbce | You made me happy and you made me laugh, and if I could do it all over again, I would not hesitate. Look at our life, at the trips we took, the adventures we had. As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| df49043 | I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| f5e99ea | The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 16dfe5b | It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. | J. D. Salinger | ||
| 9058fd9 | You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 25c556f | These days, I am very glad to be a mortal, and to only have to endure this life once. These days, I don't envy you at all." "And before?" It was her turn to stare toward the horizon. "I used to wish I had a chance to see it all- and hated that I never would." | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2c1d87b | Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 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. | lovers humour love 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. | fiction reality imagination fantasy humor imaginary illusions on-fiction | Norton Juster | |
| 4e967a7 | Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? | Tom Stoppard | ||
| a9a6775 | Depression starts slow. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 110ff1d | Hey Boo. | Harper Lee | ||
| a18a7bd | You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 842597e | There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 76ce296 | The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. | criticism critic detectives mystery crime creativity | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 2d9ef4d | Who are you calling?" (claire) Pizza hut" (shane) Loser" (claire)" -- | morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 969bcfb | a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief | William Shakespeare | ||
| a2c73d2 | O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 1d8ac08 | How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering.. | personality illusion life misunderstanding | Kevin Brockmeier | |
| 113f9d8 | our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes | sometimes judgement strong | Thomas Hardy | |
| 05609fa | A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness--the beautiful wreckage of mercy. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 48144e5 | But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if you're strong enough," said Jace firmly." | clary-fray jace jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4217a3d | In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up a.. | heart life love | Toni Morrison | |
| d3ef61b | Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!" | Mary Shelley | ||
| ae21170 | What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. | Spencer Johnson | ||
| a4dd3b1 | There isnt always an explanation for everything. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 47ee143 | I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. | John Green | ||
| 338e158 | It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. | herd-behavior economics | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| fe43bd9 | I'm not going to pretend to know what's going on with you," he says. "But if you senselessly risk your life again -- " "I am not senselessly risking my life. I am trying to make , like my parents would have, like -- " "You are your parents You are a sixteen-year-old girl --" I grit my teeth. "How you -- " "-- who doesn't understand that the value of a sacrifice lies in its , not in throwing your life away! And if you do that again, yo.. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 120e50c | Sarcasm is always at someone's expense. | Veronica Roth | ||
| abfe2fa | As he fell toward the highway, a horrible scenario flashed through his mind: his body smashing against an SUV's windshield, some annoyed commuter trying to push him off with the wipers. "Stupid 16-year-old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| fa7e1a2 | How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. | inspirational | Trina Paulus |