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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5733087 | You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand? | Raymond Carver | ||
| 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. | words meaning language | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| ec85061 | I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous -- a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| 9ecabe7 | People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth." | truth | Thomas Sowell | |
| 7880b58 | The trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cfa4cc4 | Hello' said a vague and dreamy voice from behind them. Harry looked up: Luna Lovegood had drifted over from the Ravenclaw table. Many people were staring at her and few people openly laughing and pointing; she had managed to procure a hat shaped like a life-size lion's head, which was perched precariously on her head. 'I'm supporting Gryffindor' said Luna, pointing unnecessarily at her hat. "Look what it does...' She reached up and tapped t.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 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 rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 27c3122 | You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more | Bob Dylan | ||
| 41f2aea | He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. | hopes dreams life inspirational aspirations | Virginia Woolf | |
| 8dad167 | If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 10b8a07 | There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 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-lessons life | 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 passion courage meaning work change creativity | Seth Godin | |
| 5f2815b | We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out--and we have only just begun. | science astrophysics | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| d8bae8f | So I find words I never thought to speak | words travel poetry fantasy little-gidding visit shore streets mystery timelessness | 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. | love the-mortal-instruments magnus-bane bromance 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 |