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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| f44b490 | Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. | understanding | Alain de Botton | |
| 7e04ce3 | only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean! Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops? | David Mitchell | ||
| 6f5079f | Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 00729b9 | And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. | purity romance soul spirit virtue | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 69580a1 | As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-'n'-Stalin picture, but also on the smallest personal level. Even in my own life, I can see exactly where my episodes of unhappiness have brought suffering or distress or (at the very least) inconvenience to those around me. The search .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| be282ee | Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that. | cahill gomez ian kabra nellie regret | Jude Watson | |
| 696bee0 | Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. | life | Mitch Albom | |
| 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. | literature reading words | Sylvia Plath | |
| c04f700 | If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. | inspirational | John Updike | |
| 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.. | atheism atheist contradictions forgiveness good-works ignorance materialism materialist untruth | 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. | future past present | C.S. Lewis | |
| 31da044 | Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 49467df | The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 1c9d976 | Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, | T.S. Eliot. | ||
| 0821384 | Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. | humor literature reading | Oscar Wilde | |
| 88e78da | What?" Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| bb7ddde | Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst. | will | Cassandra Clare | |
| b1e2cf1 | All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| b62bbff | I am a man, and men do not drink pink drinks. Now, be gone, woman, and fetch me something brown." Jace said. "Brown?" said Isabelle. "Yes. Brown. It's a manly color. See? Alec is wearing it." Jace said. "Well, it was black but it faded." Alec said. "Well, I can always fix it up with something sparkly," Magnus said, holding a sparkley headband. "Resist the urge, Alec, resist the urge." Simon said." | humor | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2f5b466 | The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. --Ernest Hemingway | Jennifer Niven | ||
| 546b565 | The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| ac05bdb | For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a bre.. | christ christian christianity jesus | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 4dfbdc6 | As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| c652bde | It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 4c95c9e | A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmetal heart. | fma fullmetal-alchemist hiromu-arakawa | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| 2939865 | Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force." | dating high-school humor john-green paper-towns prom | John Green | |
| 67f4424 | Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect--you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b0c5ebf | What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? | Veronica Roth | ||
| d6f1b77 | Blood trickled from the corner of her (Annabeth) mouth. She croaked, "Family, Luke. You promised." Luke stared at the knife in Annabeth's hand, the blood on her face. "Promise." Then he gasped like he couldn't get air. "Annabeth . . ." But it wasn't the Titan's voice. It was Luke's. He stumbled forward like he couldn't control his own body. "You're bleeding. . . ." He gasped again."He's changing. Help. He's . . . he's almost ready. He won't.. | cursed-blade luke percy-jackson the-hero-in-the-great-prophecy | Rick Riordan | |
| 2cf92f6 | If the statue engulfs people in fire, we should send Leo.' 'I love you too, man.' 'You know what I mean. You're immune. Or, heck, give me some of those nice water grenades and I'll go. Ares and I have tangled before. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| f7a261e | It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn't need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on--moving forward. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 210bb20 | Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. | suffer suffering | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 9b2d0cb | He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. "For a moment," he says, "I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me." I make a face at him. "And what made you decide it wasn't?" He grins up at me. "They missed." | shooting | Holly Black | |
| 85e7917 | Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? | education inspiration inspirational learning | Noam Chomsky | |
| 74b363b | Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. | inspirational | Maria Robinson | |
| 7aff492 | IN THE END... We only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have,and the decisions we waited too long to make. | inspirational | Lewis Carroll | |
| 76a3c4a | Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure. | actions fables failure frustration necessary nostalgia peace time | R.A. Salvatore |