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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed4f423 | I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself" | nietzsche | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| f1bb205 | However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 69298ec | Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. " " | death snape dumbledore | J.K. Rowling | |
| 06023dc | Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 9b5b4bd | And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b650102 | A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fc4ba03 | No one ever likes the right person. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 7c95131 | Everyone sounded the same when they died. | death | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 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 | ||
| 2393657 | You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life. I would not wish such a love on anyone, man or woman, for it can make your life a paradise, or it can destroy you utterly. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| a42d467 | Every new event--everything I did for the rest of my life--would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away. | Donna Tartt | ||
| dac0c07 | 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." -- | humor prom john-green paper-towns high-school dating | John Green | |
| 00729b9 | And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. | virtue romance spirit purity soul | 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. | kabra cahill gomez nellie ian regret | Jude Watson | |
| 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 | ||
| f31326d | I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time." | Jules Verne | ||
| c2a00f9 | If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! | invitation | Shel Silverstein | |
| 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. | literature reading humor | 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.. | christianity jesus christian christ | 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. | fullmetal-alchemist hiromu-arakawa fma | 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." | humor prom john-green paper-towns high-school dating | 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 the-hero-in-the-great-prophecy percy-jackson | 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. | suffering suffer | 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? | learning inspiration education inspirational | 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 | |
| f4668a7 | We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. | Hunter S. Thompson |