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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 55a483d | Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 4f282dc | Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. | obsession passion | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 1ef33ba | Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done--that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. | fear heroism | Piers Anthony | |
| 21a6b7f | Listen carefully to me, darling, because I'm giving you fair warning that I won't let you do this to us. You gave me your love, and I will not let you take it away. The harder you try, the harder I'll fight you. I'll haunt your dreams at night, exactly the way you have haunted mine every night I was away from you. You'll lie awake in bed at night, wanting me, and you'll know I'm lying awake wanting you. And when you can't stand it anymore y.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 573f86e | One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can h.. | thoughts-on-life | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| ef9b62d | I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 853c25d | Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 96dbdcf | I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| c2e0471 | Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. | right truth wrong | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 8c80eda | I measured love by the extent of my jealousy. | Graham Greene | ||
| c5735ee | Rowan's always looking for an excuse to show off. Dramatic rescues give him purpose and fulfillment in his dull, immortal life." There" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cd8933b | here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) | e.e. cummings | ||
| a3cc7e5 | Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. | elizabeth-wurtzel prozac-nation | Elizabeth Wurtzel | |
| 1464ac5 | Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man. | humanity inspirational life | John Steinbeck | |
| 583345b | I wish the night would end, I wish the day'd begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, I wish there were games to play... | love nature sadness siblings song-lyrics | V.C. Andrews | |
| fe6d0de | Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7f075ce | Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. | Charles Dickens | ||
| af22bb1 | Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you! | self-knowledge | Frank Herbert | |
| 15e75bb | I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory. | time-passing | Julian Barnes | |
| dcb2282 | Even the smallest person can change the course of the future | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| df03688 | There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 79509a8 | He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running. | Richard Adams | ||
| 30256b1 | The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you. | Mary Roach | ||
| 85ab0e4 | That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. | Amy Tan | ||
| b3c88ef | Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore. | Amy Tan | ||
| 658f59b | You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill." | rules-of-attraction skills tuck | Simone Elkeles | |
| 43db718 | Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.) | humor max maximum-ride maxride | James Patterson | |
| f58c689 | My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh..." | humor paranoia parents | Garth Nix | |
| 45e6333 | Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 5e7668f | It seems that the young woman made some indelicate suggestion of a threesome...When I got there, Miss Nash was standing by the hot tub in a small bikini, pointing the business end of a SIG-Sauer P-226 at her fella and concerned members of the hotel staff, while dunking the scantily clad female's head under the water and asking, "Who's diving for clams now, bitch?" | magic-bleeds | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4babe68 | Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c7d8e81 | The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9c8e696 | He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 2692425 | That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays | understanding | Mitch Albom | |
| 1a1d8a7 | I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes; I wonder if It weighs like Mine, Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long, Or did it just begin? I could not tell the Date of Mine, It feels so old a pain. I wonder if it hurts to live, And if They have to try, And whether, could They choose between, It would not be, to die. I note that Some -- gone patient long -- At length, renew their smile. An imitation of .. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| ea1f137 | When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that's just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've been searching for all these years. | Alex Garland | ||
| 2f389b9 | It's not me I'm worried about. If they think you blew a satellite out of orbit, they could see you as a threat." "Of they could just think I'm that awesome." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a51a043 | Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time. | fiction young-adult | Jane Yolen | |
| b450a44 | The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him. | Ian McEwan | ||
| eeafe41 | She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart. | Steve Martin | ||
| 0a6e048 | Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4abe5b1 | On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone. | autism cats | Jodi Picoult | |
| 046fc89 | Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fd3fd2e | When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him. | Jodi Picoult |