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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 percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| 40be7ab | Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. | harry-dresden libraries technophobes | 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 inspirational love | Suzanne Collins | |
| 804f2d8 | Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. | inspirational life | 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 | inspirational memories | 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 inspirational love | Sarah Dessen | |
| 716a2eb | Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 280d246 | I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 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. .. | obsession relations | 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 | ||
| 4b7960f | You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom no one notices until she slips out.Then only those near the door themselves, like Grandma Lynn, notice; to the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room. Grandma Lynn died several years.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 7510d13 | I had a good teacher." "Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass." "I mean you, dummy." | jealousy morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 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 | ||
| 8e7402d | When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence. | dan-brown silence | Dan Brown | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | maximum-ride the-final-warning | James Patterson | |
| 646f12a | And when she at last came out, her eyes were dry. Her parents stared up from their silent breakfast at her. They both started to rise but she put a hand out, stopped them. 'I can care for myself, please,' and she set about getting some food. They watched her closely. In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an.. | loss love | William Goldman | |
| 6cf0e8b | As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons. | Harper Lee | ||
| dea0b90 | You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 0512234 | I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9a11052 | He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. "Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c5c64ff | You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6afd417 | Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| ddf0863 | Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 08c3238 | I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming. | growth | Daniel Keyes | |
| 754b005 | Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men w.. | life literature men scarlett-o-hara women | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 1a27d4e | The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. | Robert Greene | ||
| 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 | ||
| 5f6f2ed | my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go! | Francine Rivers |