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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 22523b5 | I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. | pain hate | James Baldwin | |
| e91fa7e | How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 834d408 | Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them | philosophy antoine-de-saint-exupery the-little-prince children | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| df4dc68 | What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 0c5362f | Humans see what they want to see. | mankind self-delusion willful-ignorance perception humans | Rick Riordan | |
| 6437ba5 | I am not a teacher, but an awakener. | learning education inspirational mentoring carpe-diem | Robert Frost | |
| fd3f697 | My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it. | life inspirational | Judy Blume | |
| 0eb3ade | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - | individuality inspirational consequence | robert frost | |
| faca3c5 | Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point. | John Green | ||
| 7df5ddc | I have a fetish for damsels in distress." "Don't be sexist." "Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It's an equal opportunity fetish." -- | fetish sebastian-verlac | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3553e56 | I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then? | want fun | Neil Gaiman | |
| 5dceb16 | When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5c65487 | I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. | integrity men self-determination independence romance women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment love ideal-woman image realism gender flaws | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 777050a | Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 36cf450 | In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. | spring | Margaret Atwood | |
| e167e53 | I'd far rather be happy than right any day. | rightness | Douglas Adams | |
| 126f126 | Accept who you are; and revel in it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ce00036 | About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 21be7b8 | Go then, there are other worlds than these. | jon-jake-chambers tower stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 265de0c | You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. | your-gift inspirational story-teller storytelling | Erin Morgenstern | |
| 789fe67 | If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does. | love | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 1ee142e | People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. | people truth | George R.R. Martin | |
| 6c21eba | Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. | books | C.S. Lewis | |
| fca6fe3 | there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars | stars john-green the-fault-in-our-stars human-nature | John Green | |
| a91b188 | Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| d4965fd | Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. | science | Douglas Adams | |
| fd5b097 | Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. | nature emotion sadness growing trees flowers sunlight emotions tears water fruit | Brian Jacques | |
| d2d5a27 | Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b8bd680 | Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 50f2db7 | Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. "You know that feeling," she said, "when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside." His blue eyes were dark with understanding --.. | tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| f6e242c | Read, read, read. That's all I can say. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 16215d4 | Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 184e451 | When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all. | love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| bb9a1bd | Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| baf9c33 | Do you want a cookie? - What? - A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one? - No. - How can you not want a cookie? - I just don't. - Okay, fine,let's say you did want a cookie. Let's say you were dying for a cookie, and there were cookies in the cupboard. What would you do? - I'd eat a cookie? - Exactly. That's all I'm saying. - What are you saying? - That if people want cookies, they should get a cookie. It's what people do. - Let me guess. D.. | funny | Nicholas Sparks | |
| ec52bd0 | Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?" | morganvillevampires | Rachel Caine | |
| ca15221 | And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need. | marriage | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 4bb998d | I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e56f3c7 | Got that gun?" Peter says to Tobias. "No," says Tobias, "I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 71e79ed | The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. | harry-potter light inside-us sirius sirius-black choices | J.K. Rowling | |
| 23ce50c | We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. | reading | Jules Verne | |
| c339377 | Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway | inspirational | Neil Gaiman | |
| a9afbf4 | Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| ef9d805 | But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. | power-of-words propaganda thought | George Orwell |