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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 602a085 | People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 36100ee | You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 50b03d9 | Light | poetry | T.S. Eliot | |
| a0fdd47 | I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. | ignorance | Oscar Wilde | |
| 8e232f4 | She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds. | julian-blackthorn love parabatai | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2db7b8d | I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever." (Luke/Lucian)" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| bfda9a7 | Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like humid air. "Better than a bath in spaghetti any day." He said darkly, "If you share that little bit of personal information with anyone, I may have to kill you." "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me." "Probab.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| eec60f8 | With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 8fc6c6d | Red Sox looked around Jane at the patient, "Your mind reading coming back?" "With her? Sometimes?" "Huh. You getting anything from anyone else?" "Nope." Red Sox repositioned his hat. "Well, ah...let me know if you pick up shit from me, k? There are some things that I'd prefer to keep private, feel me?" "Roger that. Although I can't help it sometimes." "Which is why I'm going to take up thinking about baseball when you're around." "Thank fuc.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3c7c82b | Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| d3c7ba1 | But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. | storytelling | Diane Setterfield | |
| 951f6f9 | Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. | escapism reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| 0c56bf8 | You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| d70fac7 | Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give. | inspirational | Tom Hiddleston | |
| f2a0e25 | I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts. | inspirational | Elbert Hubbard | |
| 9eb9601 | I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven | heaven inspirational | Tupac Shakur | |
| 2baa80e | there is only one thing on my body that's ten inches long, and if you'll recall, the scar is no' it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| c60e133 | If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. | Dean Koontz | ||
| abe9868 | Only a fool is not afraid. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4bacdc3 | and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt. | Mark Haddon | ||
| d1b72a8 | Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places at once. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ea14670 | you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one. | doubt inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 9bd6f5c | Words could be just as deadly as steel. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b7aa11a | Aelin was insane, Dorian realized. Brilliant and wicked, but insane. | dorian | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 89bd508 | I'm happy for you, my friend." Celaena smiled back. "I think... I think I'm happy for me, too." And she was. For the first time in years, she was truly ." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5ad5ffd | Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life | Walt Whitman | ||
| 6d19b2b | How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she'd returned Richard's kiss on the corner of Bleeker and McDougal, gone off somewhere (where?) with him, never bought the packet of incense or the alpaca coat with rose-shaped buttons. Couldn't they have discovered something larger and stranger than what they've got. It is impossible not to imagine that other future, that rejected future, .. | memory | Michael Cunningham | |
| ffa3863 | Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams. | Michael Ende | ||
| 16b2c72 | With wild eyes that had seen freedom. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 5dbe707 | Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out. | humor | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| e4d320e | In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| e93c126 | Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can | inspirational life | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 46a6763 | The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. | setting-trends social-behavior | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 10d3a31 | ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this. VLADIMIR: That's what you think. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 741ffa6 | In the hall stood Richard Campbell Gansey III in his school uniform and overcoat and scarf and gloves, looking like someone from another world. Behind him was Ronan Lynch, his damn tie knotted right for once and his shirt tucked in. Humiliation and joy warred furiously inside Adam. Gansey strode between the pews as Adam's father stared at him. He went directly to the bench, straight up to the judge. Now that he stood directly beside Adam, n.. | Maggie Stiefvater | ||
| 4d392b8 | If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 98aca04 | Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing. | James Redfield | ||
| 8787f6a | Love hurts." Oh, shut UP!" - pg 123" | James Patterson | ||
| f688ec6 | Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist." | Lee Child | ||
| 8192068 | Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 7d4d068 | I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1e9f771 | Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profita.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4c751ff | I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet." He almost purred. I gulped." | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| fad73ad | I picked up the phone and dialed Andrea's extension. "Yes?" "He glued the chair to my ass." Silence." | Ilona Andrews |