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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 57f6c98 | Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 712476f | After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 34d7a38 | Let's boogie,' he (Leo) said. 'Before I come to my senses | Rick Riordan | ||
| 993e8c4 | What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d5e5e02 | Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time. | focus inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking priorities priority time | Roy T. Bennett | |
| e02a960 | Great victory requires great risk | inspirational victory | Rick Riordan | |
| 90c3eab | A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world. | alter chain choice course decision domino fate inspirational life lives monumental reaction stranger world | J.D. Stroube | |
| e4e6841 | Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. | freedom inspirational words | Patti Smith | |
| 1aa733e | The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready. | inspirational | Ally Carter | |
| b72232f | Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate | compromise inspirational negotiation | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| c947cff | In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. | secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| 26320e3 | What an unequaled gift for disaster you have. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 5fdaa83 | But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 5037dc3 | I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway. | religion | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 7a4ac72 | We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown. | grown | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 7b5c718 | If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see. | Libba Bray | ||
| 07969bf | Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives. | darkness suffering | Paulo Coelho | |
| 5cab1d7 | If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e5d8ea4 | A storm is coming. A great storm. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8c042f2 | may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living | e.e. cummings | ||
| 46f8b08 | It's just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking. | David Sedaris | ||
| 72705de | Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of almost every sermon I ever heard Joshua give. You should be nice to people, even creeps. And if you: a) believed that Joshua was the Son of God (and) b) he had come to save you from sin (and) c) acknowledged the Holy Spirit within you (became a.. | speeches | Christopher Moore | |
| a61ae02 | Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 33592ae | His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing. | threats | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 3dc186b | Are wild strawberries really wild? Will they scratch an adult, will they snap at a child? Should you pet them, or let them run free where they roam? Could they ever relax in a steam-heated home? Can they be trained to not growl at the guests? Will a litterbox work or would they make a mess? Can we make them a Cowberry, herding the cows, or maybe a Muleberry pulling the plows, or maybe a Huntberry chasing the grouse, or maybe a Watchberry gu.. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 2d45881 | It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future"." -- | Sandra Brown | ||
| 349cbaa | Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man. | man | John Steinbeck | |
| c44233c | I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't. | James Frey | ||
| adb39e1 | Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. | writing | Anne Lamott | |
| d3fc81c | You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. | nietzsche | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| a92c538 | Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 65c293a | We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. | inspirational | David Levithan | |
| 17fb97d | he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. | love | David Levithan | |
| 8dcb6e0 | In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories. | long-term memories regrets | Bill Watterson | |
| 5599b79 | Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I'm looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957." | scrabble | Bill Watterson | |
| e5a8d22 | Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself? | bellwether fads humour independence | Connie Willis | |
| a2c11b9 | 16 Things Romance Readers Are Tired Of Hearin 1. All Romance books are exactly the same. 2. The endings are so predictable. 3. You know romance doesn't happen like that in real life. 4. You're setting unrealistic expectations for yourself about love. 5. Real men don't have abs like that. 6.So you think you're going to go on a lot of dates? 7. So you think you're going to fall in love with an ex-boyfriend? 8. ...or a billionaire? 9. ...or a .. | tumblr uneducated-mind | Bookbub Bulletin | |
| 779ab3a | What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf? | bbq humor signs wolf wolves | Eoin Colfer | |
| 6198c55 | He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. | anna-karenina avoiding flattery gaze love stare sun tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 91c9fd7 | You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. | peace | George Bernard Shaw | |
| ef82895 | You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4b8adef | 1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They're also entitled to express them online. 2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don't like. 3. Sometimes those opinions won't be very nice. 4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes. 5. However, if your solution to this "problem" is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are a bigg.. | bullying censorship criticism freedom-of-expression freedom-of-opinion freedom-of-speech opinions readers reviewers reviewing reviews | John Scalzi | |
| 8eb074c | Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.' 'Old?' asked Clevinger with surprise. 'What are you talking about?' 'Old.' 'I'm not old.' 'You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before t.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 4ccae6b | No one escapes from life alive. | life | Michael Crichton |