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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 idiots intelligence life | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 860dda3 | Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. | armageddon cinema death end-of-the-world life post-modernism simulacra | Roger Zelazny | |
| a2e6564 | There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always h.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| afc55f4 | I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?" | sookie-eric | Charlaine Harris | |
| fc89386 | Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing. | Audre Lorde | ||
| ff15c34 | And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the last stage of the pox." "Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them." "Yes, but if Benedict was going to turn into an enormous serpent, you'd think you could at least hav.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9abee5d | You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 06df765 | There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of." Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo." Luke and Magnus, pg. 285" | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 39bfefd | When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaw.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 16d6ecc | If love is great, then it is worth fighting for. | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 411de15 | If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. | futility shakespeare | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 6361781 | Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to. | John Green | ||
| 1546219 | So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe. | John Green | ||
| e7c36aa | I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite. | quentin | John Green | |
| e540d89 | As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. | kissing | John Green | |
| c347137 | What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. .. | god sin what-is-sin | John Piper | |
| d5b98b9 | I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1ef1a7d | I know I want you," he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them. He had been in her half a hundred times by now, but always beneath furs, with others all around them. He had never seeen how beautiful she was. Her legs were skinny and well muscled, the hair at the juncture of her thighs a brighter red than that on her head. Does that ma.. | kiss love romance sex ygritte | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5fdfa46 | Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 2b18fbc | Rachel bit her lip. "I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? Gods, that would be embarrassing." | percy-jackson-and-the-olympians rachel | Rick Riordan | |
| a2419fb | Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled. Cupid said. " | eros heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 8685dae | People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know. | bellybutton humor | Rick Riordan | |
| bbc76d9 | Dalmatia," Nico said, making Jason jump. Jason wished he could put a bell around Nico di Angelo's neck to remind him the guy was there. Nico had this disturbing habit of standing silently in the corner, blending into the shadows." | nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| e69954d | Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9513286 | What an author doesn't know could fill a book. | books knowledge | Holly Black | |
| 51e58ef | And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 6af8682 | I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemp.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 52d952f | Argue not concerning God,...re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul... | inspirational personal-faith religion | Walt Whitman | |
| 8a0ad32 | Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others. | inspirational | Buddha | |
| 5651b0f | It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. | inspirational | Margaret Thatcher | |
| 574c3ad | He'd swiftly collected those monsters' heads, tying them together with a piece of the rope she'd hoped never to see again, then strung them over his shoulder. Periodically, he offered his catch to her. "No, no, I have a pair just like them at home," she'd said. "I would just regift them." | Kresley Cole |