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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 804f697 | Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret. | real-love | Jonathan Carroll | |
| 7ebb6a2 | Great victory requires great risk. -Hera | victory | Rick Riordan | |
| 176e3b0 | He'd learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family. | gods tyson percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena the-heroes-of-olympus | Rick Riordan | |
| 40be7ab | Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. | libraries technophobes harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 2b60135 | When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray | inspirational sufferings | Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S | |
| ca46fd2 | Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends | inspirational | John Lennon | |
| 5b98e74 | Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you. | beauty love inspirational | Suzanne Collins | |
| 804f2d8 | Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. | life inspirational | Annie Dillard | |
| 46687fe | Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy | memories inspirational | Cameron Dokey | |
| ddc79b8 | The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. | inspirational | Rumi | |
| ceb1e93 | It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Chri.. | friendship happiness love inspirational | Sarah Dessen | |
| 83e64a1 | Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 6b161d8 | C'est le temps que tu a perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| c13219c | You always blush when you lie." "I do not." I felt the flush spread down my neck. "If you keep lying, I think I will have to leave," he threatened halfheartedly. "I don't feel like my virtue is safe." "You're virtue?" I huffed. "Whatever." "I know how you get." His eyes closed." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2800ee8 | No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I will forget that. I want someone to care for me like my dad cared for my mom. And you aren't him. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| bc1dfaa | Daemon was standing in the doorway of my bedroom. Hair messy from sleep, flannel pajama bottoms rumpled. No shirt. Three feet plus of snow outside, and he was still half naked. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fea63ec | You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state. | heart love quiet | Franz Kafka | |
| 393785c | I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0619920 | what you don't know, you don't miss | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 758a50e | I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor. | sadness | Jodi Picoult | |
| e1df70b | If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 700cc51 | Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacat.. | men women | Jodi Picoult | |
| 5f6f2ed | my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go! | Francine Rivers | ||
| d5628cc | I am dead to them, even though I once flowered. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 6ad0291 | Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?" | happiness intelligence life idiots | Orhan Pamuk | |
| e583e52 | No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 886091c | Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 6075871 | You stand out like a fart in a church. | the-final-warning maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| be9d39d | Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e4da081 | and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8e7402d | When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence. | silence dan-brown | Dan Brown | |
| 0d75d76 | If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose. | Rick Warren | ||
| de680c5 | Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| bbb0f84 | The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. | marriage | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| d95fa20 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's definition of "Universe": The Universe is a very big thing that contains a great number of planets and a great number of beings. It is Everything. What we live in. All around us. The lot. Not nothing. It is quite difficult to actually define what the Universe means, but fortunately the Guide doesn't worry about that and just gives us some useful information to live in it. Area: The area of the Univers.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 09901e5 | When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And When he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden... But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out .. | poetry | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 12dbab7 | He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| f5b1647 | You think you're funny," she said coldly. "But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him ." "I will if you go out with me, Evans," said James quickly. "Go on . . . Go out with me, and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again." "I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid," said Lily." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6742d56 | Aren't you frightened?" Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. She looked away. "Yes," she finally said, "I'm frightened all the time." "Then why don't you act like it?" "I do. I just do it in private." "Because you don't trust me?" "No," she said, "because I know you're frightened, too." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9b67686 | Marie, let's suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man's face is completely clean. My question is this: which of the two will wash his face? That's a silly question. The one with the dirty face of course.' No, the one with the dirty face will look at the other man and assume that he looks like him. .. | relations obsession | Paulo Coelho | |
| fcb0337 | Sometimes I see me dead in the rain. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 27e943c | Remember that we have something to fight for, and it will always triumph. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 959e6c7 | What you did for me, Chaol," she tried again. "Not even with Cain, but when you--" "I have to go," he interrupted, and half turned away. "Chaol," she said, grabbing his hand and whirling him to face her. She only saw the haunted gleam in his eyes before she threw her arms around his neck and held him tightly. He straightened, but she crushed her body into his, even though it still aggravated her wounds to do so. Then, after a moment, his ar.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 860dda3 | Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. | death life simulacra post-modernism end-of-the-world cinema armageddon | Roger Zelazny |