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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bba7b08 | How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us? | fables superstition | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 3f51315 | I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for your happiness. I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I h.. | page-196 clockwork-princess tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| dc69517 | He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 771f7fb | Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temp.. | dance art exaggeration film | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 422031d | I spy with my little eye a great story. | paper-towns | John Green | |
| fb93d61 | We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it? | John Green | ||
| 808d1b5 | She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| dcb12c2 | I ignore my fear," he says. "When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist." I stare at him for a second. I can't help it. To me there's a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 5d25667 | How could I not love him, after that? That is not to say that I approved of all he did, or much enjoyed the company of the man that he became... but every little girl needs a big brother to protect her. Tywin was big even when he was little." She gave a sigh. "Who will protect us now?" Jaime kissed her cheek. "He left a son." "Aye, he did. That is what I fear the most, in truth." That was a queer remark. "Why should you fear?" "Jaime," she .. | tywin-lannister tyrion-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| 472affe | HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE. | Harlan Ellison | ||
| 278d865 | The wise warrior avoids the battle. | inspirational | Sun Tzu | |
| f631a85 | Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two--love and controlling power over the other person--are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. | sex marriage relationships romance submission | Rob Bell | |
| 606f130 | Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. | heroism humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 8b71476 | Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world. Monsters force us to become stronger, smarter, better. They sift the weak from the strong and provide a forge for the steeling of souls. Even as we curse mons.. | monsters harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 5b02663 | I didn't particularly want to live much longer than that. Life seemed rather daunting. It seems so to me even now. Life seemed too long a time to have to stick around, a huge span of years through which one would be require to tap-dance and smile and be Great! and be Happy! and be Amazing! and be Precious! I was tired of my life by the time I was sixteen. I was tired of being too much, too intense, too manic. I was tired of people, and I wa.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| d1174a5 | The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f17f44e | I realize that life is risks. It's acknowledging the past but looking forward. It's taking a chance that we wil | life inspirational | Carrie Ryan | |
| 42e132b | The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be. | woman romance inspirational | John Elderedge | |
| c4bd3fc | Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it. | inspirational | Imam Ali | |
| 5e530ee | Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. | happiness life inspirational adversity hard-times | Thisuri Wanniarachchi | |
| 661b392 | There i | inspirational tao-te-ching | Lao Tzu | |
| d71fec4 | We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care. | humor inspirational | Will Smith | |
| 7277f44 | You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. | fun humor wisdom inspirational art cool | viggo mortensen | |
| 4573631 | People are successful because they think and act like successful people. | 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 success life-lessons optimism life inspirational | Roy T. Bennett | |
| e530d09 | Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2a83d10 | If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have'. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete. | albom have-a-little-faith inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| 3b2c696 | I...I was just excited." "Yeah, I'd say you were," Dee said, grinning like an idiot. Daemon was staring at me like he's just won the lottery. "I kind of like this level of excitement. Makes me think of--" "Daemon!" both of us shouted. "What?" He grinned, tousling Dee's hair. "I was only suggesting--" "We know what you were suggesting." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| bd17dfe | He hadn't left, and apparently, Seth was a cuddler. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f79e7da | You really shouldn't trust a soul in this game. Not when everyone has something to gain or lose. | daemon-black luc | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 5a9819a | A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. | hero chiron ultimate-guide percy-jackson-and-the-olympians rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 94c0a34 | Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt. | sadie rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 601a73e | The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 7a943cd | Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick. | violence love offense shoot kick sweet joke intimacy | Raymond Carver | |
| f8ecba9 | But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| f767a03 | If I am an angel, paint me with black wings. | Anne Rice | ||
| 0186257 | Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction. | humor werewolves | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 909cff8 | Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool! | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d1bff5b | Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d6ea764 | You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you. | sex | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 7511fe4 | Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue | Anne Lamott | ||
| c95be13 | Consider me your candy stripper... I mean striper. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 0ef9c09 | He pats his way around the the bed and slides back in. "Ow," he says. "yes?" "My belt. Would it be weird..." I'm thankful he can't see me blush."Of course not." And I listen to the slap of leather, s he pulls it out of his belt loops. He lays it gently on my hardwood floor. "Um," he says. "Would it be weird-" "yes" "Oh, piss off. I'm not talking trousers. I only want under the blankets. That breeze is horrible." He slides underneath, and n.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 4dc3617 | The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inq.. | reality honesty philosophy truth sincerity | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| 6c4616a | He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. | tiredness | William Golding |