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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bff9644 | I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. | blending-in | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| 7d70da7 | Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 00a96ea | Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. | injustice religion atrocities barbarity skepticism atheism | Voltaire | |
| 78d2d6c | In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you'll never see again. | sex | Neil Gaiman | |
| f7e3984 | We live as we dream--alone.... | loneliness | Joseph Conrad | |
| 32ec78d | Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? | tyrion-lannister george-r-r-martin a-song-of-ice-and-fire wall curiosity | George R.R. Martin | |
| ee2270f | Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear? | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| b2a6666 | If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever. | George Orwell | ||
| 8d2e2b6 | What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Eowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire." | fear gender-roles | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8eff89b | We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first plac.. | pale-blue-dot humanity inspirational extinction perspective | George Carlin | |
| 4403452 | Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. | imagination fantasy inspirational creativity | Albert Einstein | |
| ee0d504 | I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 5aec449 | I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why. | friendship | John Steinbeck | |
| 70b26d7 | I've known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don't ask quarters. | life inspirational | Horton Foote | |
| 534d158 | Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. | ulysses | James Joyce | |
| 1e994ac | Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 6a4ca4d | Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!" | friendship greatness loyalty | J.K. Rowling | |
| 008188d | I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile." | isabelle-lightwood jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 39295fe | You never called me back," he said. "I called you so many times and you never called me back." Magnus looked at Alec as if he'd lost his mind. "Your city is under attack," he said. "The wards have been broken, and the streets are full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't " Alec set his jaw in a stubborn line. "I want to know why you haven't called me " Magnus threw his hands up in the air in a gesture of utter exasperation. Alec .. | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| d2f0c5d | Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace." | jace simon mundane | Cassandra Clare | |
| ac8b1e4 | For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ec1932a | Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 10df22b | If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. | love heathcliff classic | Emily Brontë | |
| b9b9808 | We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. | George Orwell | ||
| 6dcc7cd | Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool! | Armistead Maupin | ||
| d9fe290 | We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 9b9b0fc | Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. | defeat humanity life | Ralph Ellison | |
| a5208f5 | Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you." "With what?" "My bare hands, obviously." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 382ef78 | When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a024bc0 | There's something ugly about the flawless. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| fec0df3 | We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. | inspirational | Tami Hoag | |
| 2c8f3c2 | Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fdf1cfe | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I | individuality choice inspirational consequence | robert frost | |
| adc7382 | I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 153b3ac | Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" "Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?" "I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter" | madness insanity | Lewis Carroll | |
| 64e4101 | If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? | sincerity regrets | José Saramago | |
| 47bca6c | Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars. | war | Haruki Murakami | |
| 99a1ef1 | I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone. | self-knowledge being-alone | Amy Sedaris | |
| ac4961f | Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b181263 | You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| f768c9d | Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. | nature philosophy | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| c3a7b9f | No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one." | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2f235f1 | Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion." | jessamine-lovelace will-herondale journalism newspapers | Cassandra Clare | |
| bb1cbe7 | Don't put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know! | wizards | J.K. Rowling |