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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19536c3 | I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 61cc5cd | Only the children know what they are looking for. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 5857aaf | We had no idea what waited ahead of us, other than the big, fat unknown, and most likely a big, fat kick in the face. The gravity of that was killing me-killing I squared my shoulders. "Release the Kraken!" Several sets of eyes settled on me. "What?" I gave a lopsided shrug. "I've always wanted to yell that since I saw that movie. Seemed like the perfect moment." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7a870c2 | At least I don't look like a Christmas tree." "You look like the star atop the tree." | daemon katy heartwarming sweet compliment | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 6a89ebb | Hunger is the best sauce in the world. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 6f31fdf | One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. | inspirational lord-of-chaos military-quote one-more-dance robert-jordan military | Robert Jordan | |
| e576f4c | The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war between the sexes: the limp prick. The banner of the enemy's encampment: the prick at half-mast. The symbol of the apocalypse: the atomic warhead prick which self-destructs. was the basic inequity which could never be righted: not that the male had a wonderful added attraction called a penis, but that the female had a wonderful all-weather c.. | men women humor sexism | Erica Jong | |
| fdf2ed6 | Now and then, an inch below the water's surface, the muscles of his stomach tightened involuntarily as he recalled another detail. A drop of water on her upper arm. Wet. An embroidered flower, a simple daisy, sewn between the cups of her bra. Her breasts wide apart and small. On her back, a mole half covered by a strap. When she climbed out of the pond a glimpse of the triangular darkness her knickers were supposed to conceal. Wet. He saw i.. | lust | Ian McEwan | |
| 5d9ae4d | I desired dragons with a profound desire. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 2d12652 | It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 6b4d58a | I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it. | inspirational miracles mystery | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 0acd9ec | What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| cae168f | I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| a3aaf37 | So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 8ef85f9 | In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps. | inspirational seduction | Neil Strauss | |
| f8fe292 | Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour | tragedy | Euripides | |
| 7295b3d | Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 0db6ef9 | Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| bd365df | The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does .. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| 0221406 | I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have. | wisdom plato socrates knowledge | Plato | |
| 447dd78 | Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD! | J. K. Rowling | ||
| 6431b98 | I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!" | humor uncle-vernon hagrid | J.K. Rowling | |
| fbe7af0 | Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him." | harry-potter j-k sorcerer-s rowling stone | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3921ba8 | And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then .. | evolution god | Mark Haddon | |
| a651fdd | If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 745d048 | All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer -- one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going -- one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 22ecbd6 | As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| dcd93b9 | Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder? | Libba Bray | ||
| d11535e | it is the family you make, not the one you are born into, that matters. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0cb494d | Thank you for the oil," he added. "My skin was a little dry." | arobynn-hamel throne-of-glass rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 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. | time actions fables necessary peace failure frustration nostalgia | R.A. Salvatore | |
| f3e2342 | People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. | accepting liberation gossip | Gregory Maguire | |
| 7bc06ba | I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 7e180a2 | Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 5f2cc52 | Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. | life delay conduct-of-life | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| d81cfac | When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| ed44e71 | What kind of animal am I eating?' Sam wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. 'It's named Saehrimnir.' 'Okay, first of all, who names their dinner? I don't want to know my dinner's name. This potato--is this potato named Steve?' She rolled her eyes. 'No, stupid. That's Phil. The is Steve. | Rick Riordan | ||
| ed96b79 | She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 17b8516 | It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 55ea93d | Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? | ass curmudgeon meatsacks mouthbreathers pronouncements intellectual pompous attitude sheep satire hilarious contempt | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 65d96f8 | It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song - "Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece | shel silverstein | ||
| df7931b | Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night. I am afraid of being, on this shore, a branchless trunk, and what I most regret is having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my despair. If you are my hidden treasure, if you are my cross, my dampened pain, if I am a dog, and you alone my master, never let me lose what I have gained, | Federico García Lorca | ||
| 8efa8ef | Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman's face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you'd been before. | Clive Barker | ||
| 8922053 | Do I dare Disturb the universe? | courage fear dreams make-a-difference | T. S. Eliot |