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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. | time leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational priorities leader leaders priority focus | 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 course domino fate world choice life inspirational monumental chain reaction stranger decision lives | J.D. Stroube | |
| e4e6841 | Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. | words freedom inspirational | 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 | inspirational compromise negotiation | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| 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.. | criticism freedom-of-opinion reviewers reviewing opinions freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech reviews bullying readers censorship | 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 | |
| f4c0859 | I'm Dee Black. I'm the sister of the douchebag known as Daemon." She smiled brightly. "But you probably already know that." "That's he's a douchebag or that he's your brother?" Archer asked innocently. "The answer is yes to both." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 19300c4 | What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0156cc7 | We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology ... But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7aa65dc | Deep rivers run quiet. | life love shyness | Haruki Murakami | |
| cadef30 | My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 406620f | I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly. | god second-chances | Karen Kingsbury | |
| e5358de | Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit. It? I ask. Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It. But what do it look like? I ask. Don't l.. | Alice Walker | ||
| 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 | ||
| ddca975 | Freedom is often the first casualty of war. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | suffering darkness | 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 | ||
| e5781e8 | Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 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 | ||
| 779ab3a | What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf? | humor bbq signs wolves wolf | 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. | love gaze anna-karenina stare avoiding tolstoy flattery sun | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 91c9fd7 | You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. | peace | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 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. | memories long-term 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 |