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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d72c824 | Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. | friendship home | Orson Scott Card | |
| 4a1010c | If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud. | Henry Miller | ||
| 1066514 | The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive. | Darren Shan | ||
| f9ca029 | You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 335e113 | Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3f3a631 | Never pray for justice, because you might get some. | prayer | Margaret Atwood | |
| 26c87a4 | Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness. | John O'Donohue | ||
| d4788c6 | Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble. | Robert Jordan | ||
| bb812e8 | it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle. | Franz Kafka | ||
| af3e757 | when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7cedbdd | The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. | eating food gardening happiness inspiration motivation planet relationships sharing | Michael Pollan | |
| a749063 | Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. | raskolnikov sonia suffering | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 814a2d2 | Idris: Are all people like this? | consciousness doctor-who human-greatness humanity potential soul tardis the-doctor-s-wife vastness | Neil Gaiman | |
| 4817673 | To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 3869ed6 | Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine) | hate life | Cassandra Clare | |
| 613e3a6 | You're all he ever wants. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 922845f | Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 7ecba8a | The funny thing about mundies," Jace said, to nobody in particular, "is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means." I know what it means," Clary snapped. No, you don't, you just think you do. Magic is a dark elemental force, not just a lot of sparkly wands and crystal balls and talking goldfish." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ef9a085 | It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character. | cowardice defend fake-friends friends friendship judgment judgmental judgmental-people reliance speak support supporters | Mary Shelley | |
| 18d51ff | V settled back against the pillows and measured the hard line of her chin. "Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you." | fantasy jane-witcomb paranormal paranormal-romance vampires vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| cbb83f3 | A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 8e557c1 | When people are finding meaning in things - beware. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 912d270 | In every community, there is work to be done. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| bdc3944 | Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, "I like your hair that way." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 388a4c7 | Only lies offend me, never honest counsel. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 45d0631 | Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death | Cressida Cowell | ||
| afeb563 | I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 668be70 | You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that." | Holly Black | ||
| 4921d9d | Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. | inspirational learning motivational opportunity | Sarah Caldwell | |
| cd32948 | Love, being in love, isn't a constant thing. It doesn't always flow at the same strength. It's not always like a river in flood. It's more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it's ebbing or flowing, it's always there, it never goes away. And that's the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy | cordelia-kenn inspirational love pillow-book | Aidan Chambers | |
| be6fc40 | We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. | america art criticism culture democrat inspirational liberal libertarian republican responsibility sex trauma victim | Camille Paglia | |
| 5090f1f | I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. | humor inspirational leaders politics presidents | Harry S. Truman | |
| e26d05d | A daydreamer is prepared for most things. | inspirational | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 5256142 | It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile pol.. | growing-up music | David Nicholls | |
| 29c54df | If you touch me like that again, Evangeline," he began in a husky tone, dropping to his seat once more, "in the space of a heartbeat, I will have you off this bike and onto the closest horizontal surface. And I woan be picky, no." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 66d6185 | The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. | literature reading words | Virginia Woolf | |
| 1002457 | The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better. | obstacles stepping-stone tread | Enid Blyton | |
| 7c1959e | How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long. What do you know about the sea? Nothing. What do I know about the sea? Nothing. Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion-- It should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view. Oh eno.. | Yann Martel | ||
| a17ba22 | Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 44975e3 | If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| ed1adb7 | I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| af1d983 | Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8295861 | And far away, across the snow-covered mountains, on a barren plain before the ruins of a once-great city, a flower began to bloom | sarah-j-maas throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6b66624 | I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores. | insult | Christopher Moore |