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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b1a3fc4 | Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 69a2dca | I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice again and again, day in and day out, year after year,says more about love than never .. | love | Emily Giffin | |
| cd35cfa | To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks. | compassion science bullfighting seals canada apartheid south-africa south-korea spain | Peter Singer | |
| b73a0a3 | You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3a2cf63 | My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears. | tears | Jack Kerouac | |
| 8f594e6 | We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7218241 | Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| dc8ee7f | he said. "I love you. Always." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c7cf3c4 | I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers. | relationships magnus-bane shadowhunters teenagers | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2838d1d | He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b489a21 | He hadn't spoken a word since they'd left the manor except to snap out directions, telling her which way to turn at a fork in the road, or ordering her to skirt a pothole. Even then she doubted if he would have minded much if she'd fallen the pothole, except that it would have slowed them down. | jace-and-clary jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9210fa8 | Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. | Judy Blume | ||
| 6a71930 | Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait. | struggles life inspirational | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 5a78ab7 | The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a3ebbcc | Stories are a different kind of true. | stories | Emma Donoghue | |
| 4007727 | Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus | machines the-lost-hero | Rick Riordan | |
| bcf2781 | Frank didn't drop you on purpose," she said. "He's not like that. He's just a little clumsy sometimes." "Oops," Leo said, in his best Frank Zhang voice. "Dropped Leo into a squad of enemy soldiers. Dang it!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6bc7eee | I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit. | the-sea-of-monsters percabeth percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians | Rick Riordan | |
| e49bf3f | Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish. | wisdom frank-zhang | Rick Riordan | |
| e0328d8 | It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that's all Percy had. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d0144d6 | Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale. | the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air locke | Holly Black | |
| b8994e7 | In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. | spiritual inspirational | St. Augustine | |
| e982761 | Skies are crying | teardrops silence inspirational skyscraper lyrics | Demi Lovato | |
| 53ab09d | Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life. | life love inspirational breath moments purpose | Steve Maraboli | |
| e575179 | We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 696bee0 | Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. | life | Mitch Albom | |
| 8f42ff9 | it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ig.. | materialist good-works untruth contradictions materialism atheism forgiveness ignorance atheist | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 679aaa2 | He paused, his smug grin turning wicked as his eyes met mine. "We could always have sex. I hear that uses up a lot of energy." | obsidian | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 3581809 | I love you Layla. Do you hear me? I've loved you since the first moment I heard your voice and I will continue to love you. No matter what. I love you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7ded703 | I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9ed91e7 | Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it. Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for? Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s. Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it. | rosie | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 00bf748 | You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 1bf4dfa | The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. | present future past | C.S. Lewis | |
| c0febe6 | I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. | words literature reading | Sylvia Plath | |
| c04f700 | If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. | inspirational | John Updike | |
| 9765443 | Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, | Richard Brautigan | ||
| a173e50 | Want to make out?" "With who?" she asks, not bothering to look up. "Me." She lifts her head from her book just long enough to give me a once-over. "No, thanks," she says, then goes back to her homework. She's fuckin' with me. She's got to be fuckin' with me, right? "Because of that pendejo Tuck?" "No. Because I don't want Madison's leftovers." Wait. Un. Momento. I've been called a lot of things before, but . . . "You callin' me leftovers?.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 40107bf | I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow," i said, warming to the idea. "It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen." (said by Max) If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen!" Iggy sounded indignant. i looked at Fang. "Wanna be fifteen?" His smile melted me. "Yeah." | James Patterson | ||
| 31da044 | Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 090a602 | Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building , when and if you are an architect?" "Yes." "My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?" | Ayn Rand | ||
| 4b403aa | Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us. | Dan Brown | ||
| abca0ed | Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3147d05 | I remember a period in late adolescence when my mind would make itself drunk with images of adventurousness. This is how it will be when I grow up. I shall go there, do this, discover that, love her, and then her and her and her. I shall live as people in novels live and have lived. Which ones I was not sure, only that passion and danger, ecstasy and despair (but then more ecstasy) would be in attendance. However...who said that thing about.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 6fcfc3d | Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard. | writing precision creative-process thinking thought | David McCullough |