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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| ef92800 | I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is. | David Levithan | ||
| b0344e1 | The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that. | David Levithan | ||
| c126aa5 | I showed him the Post-it. "You see They're from Lily." "Who's Lily?" "Some girl." "Ooh... a girl!" "Boomer, we're not in third grade anymore. You don't say, 'Ooh... a girl!'" "What? You fucking her?" "Okay, Boomer, you're right. I liked 'Ooh... a girl!' much more than that. Let's stick with 'Ooh... a girl!" | teen ya | David Levithan | |
| 7e2d0d4 | I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night. | night rain storm | Charles Bukowski | |
| 772fd7e | It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed. | Emily Giffin | ||
| ee92651 | History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 560560e | He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it | despair leo-tolstoy love sadness | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 2943542 | There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan" | doors impatient | Daniel Keyes | |
| 3ed3d75 | And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it. | human-nature | George Eliot | |
| 285b4fb | A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8685f2b | Problem is, you can't accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You're like a dog at the dump, baby - you're just lickin' at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you're not careful, that can's gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it." "But I love him." "So love him." "But I miss him." "So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him,.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a8b2fb2 | Be wary of friends--they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them. | Robert Greene | ||
| 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 | |
| 7a943cd | Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick. | intimacy joke kick love offense shoot sweet violence | Raymond Carver | |
| 0c967be | Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 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. | chiron hero percy-jackson-and-the-olympians rick-riordan ultimate-guide | Rick Riordan | |
| 94c0a34 | Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt. | rick-riordan sadie | 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 | ||
| 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.. | honesty philosophy reality sincerity truth | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| 95ace9a | Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. | inspirational praise right | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 288cac8 | Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| d4196e6 | It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase "It's a small world". It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone." | Clive Barker | ||
| 240c86f | To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know | T.S. Eliot | ||
| cc7acb6 | The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| ba7f000 | Tess?" A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor." | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6b069e7 | On a Tuesday night they were wed, And by Friday they were dead. And they buried them in the churchyard side by side, Oh my love, And they buried them in the churchyard side by side." Breaking away from Gideon with some reluctance, Sophie rose to her feet and dusted off her dress. "Please forgive me, my dear Mr. Lightwood- I mean Gideon- but I must go and murder the cook. I shall be directly back." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 31c474d | I was hoping they'd put up flyers like they do for lost cats," he said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff." | jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 232c80f | We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| fa186bb | The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. | metaphor mysticism psychosis schizophrenia | Joseph Campbell | |
| ea6dc1a | And when she started becoming a "young lady," and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn't fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that .. | beauty | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 264e040 | Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relationships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike. In fact, there is some scientific evidence to suggest that on a genetic level, the people who are the most opposite are the most likely to have a healthy and long-lasting pairing. But really, who can explain the mysteries of attraction? Blame it on Cupid. The moon. The shape of a smile. Both of you can .. | Lisa Kleypas |