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| 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.. | advice childhood getting-started incest memoir memories memory remembering writing | 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. | experience inspirational truth | 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 | |
| 00f9af5 | I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed. | irony repartee the-princess-bride tired tiredness william-goldman | William Goldman | |
| d852ec1 | Don't talk like that, Dill," said Aunt Alexandra. "It's not becoming to a child. It's - cynical." "I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?" "The way you tell it, it is." | Harper Lee | ||
| 5ed571c | Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. | inspiration unschooling | William Blake | |
| 219f8f1 | I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian! | dessert humor | Bill Watterson | |
| 75d8bc1 | Everything depends on upbringing. | upbringing | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 48a0add | Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? | broken-heart heart heartache heartbreak pills | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 9a8436c | Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'There's a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must h.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 9837537 | However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 20471d6 | When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it. | focus goal-setting happiness law-of-attraction life-changing manifestation mind-power new-age opportunity positivity self-help spirituality stephen-richards success visualization wealth-creation | Stephen Richards | |
| 1dd4f61 | Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it. | rebel rebellion revolution | Philip K. Dick | |
| b9f473f | An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 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. | hold hug parent picoult | 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 | ||
| 7733fdc | For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 19c15df | If you give me wings I will soar for you Even if this whole land Sinks down to the water If you give me a sword I will fight for you | Tite Kubo | ||
| 78b90aa | It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 87d4579 | It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment. | sorry too-late | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0a181f7 | They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her. | kiss love | Neil Gaiman | |
| 44df5aa | I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. | Mary Shelley | ||
| a96d61b | But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. | wisdom | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 5e2ddb7 | What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 635dba8 | Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'... | always augustus-waters author book cancer fangirl fault green hazel-grace-lancaster inspirational inspire john john-green kiss love lovely-quote okay romance romantic stars tfios the-fault-in-our-stars thefaultinourstars | John Green | |
| 5e7304c | While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional. | the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| a28d13a | We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl. | John Green | ||
| 746c8ff | I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 2867ef7 | I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you | Veronica Roth | ||
| 355c9eb | But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream? It came true. You're lookin' at it. | freedom inspirational watchmen | Alan Moore | |
| 9333e3e | The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 3760cc0 | Stop longing. You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow. | longing philosophy poison present today tomorrow | Robin Hobb | |
| 97e63eb | He was jealous of her future, and she of his past. | passion | Anaïs Nin | |
| a751c7d | Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later, at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and thought, He was Nico's favorite game, Mythomagic, brought .. | eros heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace love nico-di-angelo percy-jackson revelation rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| ae35b42 | Hey." [Leo] squeezed her hand, though Hazel sensed nothing romantic in the gesture. "Machines are designed to work." "Uh, what?" "I figure the universe is basically like a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or capital-G God, or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly . . . things happen for a reason... | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan |