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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f40fbae | More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. | right-and-wrong righteousness | Glen Cook | |
| 6908da4 | We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust. | inspiration mortality | David Levithan | |
| 7d1e5d7 | I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward. | Rachel Cohn & David Levithan | ||
| 85043c5 | You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 1e320e3 | Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 9ee96d2 | Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night | Sarah Kay | ||
| bd4ff06 | We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, th.. | wwii | Winston S. Churchill | |
| e5e66e0 | Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. | sun | Ray Bradbury | |
| 0249bd9 | True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it. | Francine Rivers | ||
| a6967cc | If you never noticed, it never happened. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f26467a | They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b7de1d6 | When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir--you said then that you would have died with me, you would have gone to the stake with me, had it come to that!" He grasped my hands, fixing me with a steady blue gaze. "Aye, I would," he said. "But I wasna carrying your child." The wind had frozen me; it was the cold that made me shake, I told myself. The cold that took my breath away. "You can't tell," I said, at last. "It's much too soo.. | jamie-fraser pregnancy | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 5505372 | Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever. | Roald Dahl | ||
| cd26086 | For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 2e6894f | Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs! | humor vanity | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| cbeb74f | Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c78b15e | Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout a.. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
| d6da4be | The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d49f284 | I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 1f33a73 | Goodness, my nose is enormous,' she exclaimed. 'Why didn't anyone tell me? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 71d148b | But Clary never found out what it wasn't, because there was a cry of "Jace!" and Alec appeared, breathless from pushing his way through the crowd to get them. His dark hair was a mess and there was blood on his clothes, but his eyes were bright with a mixture of relief and anger. He grabbed Jace by the front of his jacket. "What happened to you?" Jace looked affronted. "What happened to me?" Alec looked at him, not lightly. "You said you .. | humor jace mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2b9fdac | That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary. . Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead-- | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9714114 | Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death. | death jace-wayland night-stroll | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5eb8e8e | Emma --" "I'm calling." Emma lunged for her phone. "No!" Julian said, forcefully enough to stop her. "You know we can't tell anyone. About Mark --" "You're not going to bleed to death in a car for Mark!" "No," he said, looking at her. His eyes were eerily green-blue, the only bright color in the dark interior of the car. "You're going to fix me." | julian-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 06cbdde | Until death," Jem replied gently. "Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee and me.' Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?" "No better offers forthcoming?" Will tried for humor, but his voice cracked like glass. "I thought you needed me," Jem said. "There is a wall you have built about yourse.. | amazing aw jem sad will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6d6e23f | So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little. | Stephen King | ||
| ccb66a0 | Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 0fee9a5 | There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. | life philosophy | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| d826772 | I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. | the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| cc198db | Our hearts were broken in the same places. That's something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself. | John Green | ||
| dbd1dc2 | Oh shit did you just dis the feminine gender I'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blender You think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhyme But I got flow like Ghostbusters got slime Objectify women and it's fuckin' on You'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon. | rap | John Green | |
| 3be4177 | The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours. | John Piper | ||
| 7d37ec9 | I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| af243db | investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| ea80866 | It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" | fablehaven funny mull reading seth | Brandon Mull | |
| 9b70663 | It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 3ccc874 | I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain. | Anais Nin | ||
| 92ebafb | Don't underestimate Camp Half-Blood. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 65534d2 | Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll. | nico percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| c66dcee | Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on." | kane-chronicles sadie | Rick Riordan | |
| 2d0ca9c | Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. "You're not dead." "No," I said. "Though we're trying awfully hard." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7f7ff48 | Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul are holy! The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice i.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 7d5beb0 | But we're a university! We to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds . What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?" "Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely." | library school students university | Terry Pratchett | |
| da39a3e | american-dream beauty choice darkness dedication evil freedom goodness hardship harmony hope inspiration inspirational intelligence intimate life marie-lu meaning-of-life motivational nature order pure quailty science watchmen | Terry Pratchett |