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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6441c51 | I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3de508f | He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9326f7f | It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn." | sherlock-holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet | |
| b088230 | If were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b1c21b5 | He lifted the lavender soap to his hair, and she squeaked. "You don't use that in your hair," she hissed, jolting from her perch to reach for one of the many hair tonics lining the little shelf above the bath. "Rose, lemon verbena, or ..." She sniffed the glass bottle. "Jasmine." She squinted down at him. He was staring up at her, his green eyes full of the words he knew he didn't have to say. " | celeana-sardothien queen-of-shadows rowan-whitethorn sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| bec692a | O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up - for you the flag is flung.. | Walt Whitman | ||
| acada8a | Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love . | love | William Shakespeare | |
| 3aece73 | Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5e3ec72 | One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0027cd2 | I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself. | James Frey | ||
| a9eb05c | Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 9d7ddeb | The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42! | meaning-of-life | Douglas Adams | |
| cb5355d | Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 165fa5e | Guess what?' Fitz said. 'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for the first time. 'When you guys see a Narnie smile, it's like a revelation,' Webb said, gathering her towards him. Jude stopped in front of her and, with both hands cupping her face, tried to make a smile. Narnie flinched. 'Leave her alone,' Tate said. 'I need a revelation,' Jude said. 'And you're the only one that can give me one, Narns. | Melina Marchetta | ||
| 378cbf9 | And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play "you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine." | rules-of-attraction | Simone Elkeles | |
| 901c65a | I hate games I can't win. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 18e31c7 | Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. | language meaning words | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 5f2815b | We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out--and we have only just begun. | astrophysics science | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| b49cf5b | me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it. | David Levithan | ||
| 408982a | Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an a.. | happiness | David Mitchell | |
| e1a721c | For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 5cd5857 | Why am I always looking at life through a window? | flowers-for-algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| 205be92 | The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly .. | life life-lessons | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| d2e4bfd | Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chap.. | artists change courage creativity meaning passion work | Seth Godin | |
| 6709e36 | You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. | important ordinary time | Mitch Albom | |
| 5733087 | You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand? | Raymond Carver | ||
| 20d1eac | When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a man wish to thrust himself. [ ] | religious-violence sects torture | Thomas Jefferson | |
| e24eb01 | But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either , which is infamous, or , which is imbecile. | maturin nationalism nationality patriotism stephen-maturin | Patrick O'Brian | |
| c327c98 | Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 8b01844 | But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, .. | historical-fiction | Diana Gabaldon | |
| f53b4c3 | If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. | happiness optimism suffering | William Faulkner | |
| 38edf56 | What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly." | Roald Dahl | ||
| 73ed2b5 | There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airles.. | heaven hell love pets unloving vulnerability-selfishness | C.S. Lewis | |
| 65fd893 | When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It's that simple. This suggests that it isn't love that is so important to us but the mystery itself. The love connection may be merely a device to put us in contact with the mystery, and we long for love to last so that the ecstacy of being near the mystery will last. It is contrary to the nature of mystery to stand still. Yet it's always there, somewhere, a world on the other side of the.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| d8bae8f | So I find words I never thought to speak | fantasy little-gidding mystery poetry shore streets timelessness travel visit words | T.S. Eliot | |
| 9bee0a5 | The error all women commit. Why can't you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet of clay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands, or by the hands.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a6c5bb2 | I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do. | bromance love magnus-bane the-mortal-instruments unrequited-love | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7bc186d | Ouch," Jace said in her ear, his tone indignant. "You elbowed me." "Well, you landed on me." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 820c95e | Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make a.. | continuity masterpiece maturation vision | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| cff606a | I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That's 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book -- something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh. | Stephen King | ||
| b3ee5e2 | I don't have to have faith, I have experience. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| ac1547c | He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence. | Veronica Roth | ||
| d61c3cd | Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty. | Veronica Roth | ||
| d26c5dc | I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him, appalled. "I want to have " | George R.R. Martin |