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70ce7a2 All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough...the fact will prevail through the universe...but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what you shall so: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and.. Walt Whitman
6bc0580 Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. William Shakespeare
8b71526 The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad. Jonathan Safran Foer
41e9c42 We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how." Jonathan Safran Foer
81f78fb Nothing sparkly can stay. S.E. Hinton
a8947e6 He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him, the terror of someone who, wandering in a mist, pauses only to realise that they have stopped inches from the edge of a gaping abyss. The way she was looking at him - she could read what was in his eyes, he realised. It must have been written plainly there, like words on the page of a book. There had been no time, no chance, to hide i.. love clockwork-angel tessa-gray will-herondale despair Cassandra Clare
57c6ed7 You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors," Magnus said cheerfully." Cassandra Clare
7539cdc You want a piece of all fabulousness?" He gestured to himself. "Well, my best friend comes along with it. I wouldn't cut you out of my life, Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift." "Gross," said Clary. "Must you?" He grinned. "I must." clary-fray simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
a8adf7d I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true." Cassandra Clare
9bcfd8e In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in. F. Scott Fitzgerald
a526604 One choice can transform you! Veronica Roth
f02a7a6 An execution order hasn't kept us apart before. There are ways to get around it. We will be together." "Is that an order?" "No, a promise." Maria V. Snyder
8f62f50 You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again! love percabeth percy-jackson Rick Riordan The House of Hades
0767969 Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me. It doesn't have to be someone particularly nice. You don't have to like them. You don't even have to want to work with them. Yo.. loneliness harry-dresden Jim Butcher
2d7ee33 There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everla.. flying-spirit letting-go inspiration inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living destiny god life truth inspirational footprints flying meaning-of-life belief C. JoyBell C.
0c7b3e0 The best kind of humans are the ones who stay. happyquotes inspired instadaily instaquote pinquotes poems quoteoftheday relationships rmdrake spokenword vsco writer poetry writing quote hope inspirational inspirationalquotes sadquotes typewriter tattoo sayings lovequotes quotes robert m drake
7d5cd7f If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. motivational success happiness life inspirational gas fuel opinion journey Steve Maraboli
01cd7d8 To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness. inspirational Dalai Lama XIV
d732a95 Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. inspirational Patrick Ness
1dd4f61 Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it. rebellion rebel revolution Philip K. Dick
911a8d6 My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing there in all her fuzzy-bunny pajama glory. Her eyes went from me to Daemon, completely misinterpreting everything. The glee in her eyes made me want to vomit on Daemon's head. Jennifer L. Armentrout
b84886b Daemon was the pissy pink elephant in the room with a bad attitude. Jennifer L. Armentrout
5539d8b She was beautiful, and I was so, so desperately in love with her. Her chin jerked up, and she sucked in a breath, eyes widening. Okay, I may have actually thought that last bit at her. . A small smile split her lips. Jennifer L. Armentrout
a483bc6 I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. want Margaret Atwood
1631f85 I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world. Haruki Murakami
c673679 I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart. Steve Martin
f1b45a7 I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way. picoult hug hold parent Jodi Picoult
599f753 One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. C.S. Lewis
13abe67 Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations. C.S. Lewis
b9f473f An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, Emily Dickinson
f37576b There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. Anne Rice
0835204 I'm not dangerous at all I never hurt Grandpa or Sue or Billy. I love humans. And wolf-people like my Jacob."Renesmee dropped Edward's hand to reach back and pat Jacob's arm." Stephenie Meyer
22f78a9 Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and ne.. memories writing advice getting-started memoir remembering childhood incest memory Anne Lamott
f7c8f0d Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office. truth inspirational experience Simone Elkeles
8d587ad You think I've got a big ego and an attitude problem? -I don't think you do, Carlos. I know it. Unfortunately, it's a Fuentes flaw. -I'd call it an asset. It's what makes us Fuentes brothers irresistible. Carlos and Brittany Simone Elkeles
d2a0e40 Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where--' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '--so lon.. humor life Lewis Carroll
45460f2 I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. timidity Maya Angelou
7733fdc For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests. Dr. Seuss
422ff1a In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both. Ayn Rand
784d8e7 A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. politeness Louisa May Alcott
2b04835 She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. relationships imaginary real Louisa May Alcott
68cd917 Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. inspirational nausea monotony sartre Jean-Paul Sartre
52045bc The people who can destroy a thing, they control it. Frank Herbert
cb94e1b The treacherous are ever distrustful. fantasy philosophy truth inspirational gandalf J.R.R. Tolkien