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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ab39f3 | Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody read." [As quoted in | reading censorship | George Bernard Shaw | |
| dc5c4be | All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. | progress free-speech | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 023d449 | I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. | Harper Lee | ||
| 8d7f1bc | Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over. I know how wrong this is. When I was a child, I didn't understand. I would wake up in a new body and wouldn't comprehend why things felt muted, dimmer. Or the opposite--.. | mental-illness | David Levithan | |
| 79a7dbc | we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6611a93 | History admits no rules; only outcomes. | David Mitchell | ||
| 82c7ad1 | Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila. | drinking tequila | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 3e82b81 | And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. | labels good people complicated deed evil name | Philip Pullman | |
| 0d70783 | Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute. | David Sedaris | ||
| 4bf8bd4 | As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,--as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],--and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruptio.. | christian-religion united-states-government separation-of-church-and-state | John Adams | |
| 2865200 | There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9fbe6b0 | Face it, you stupid little cookie maker," Jenks said, almost sounding fond, "in the last couple of days you've seen what it's like to be in a family, with all the touchy tempers and irritation that goes on. Now you get to see the other side, where we do stupid stuff for each other just because we like you. Rache is the little sister. Ivy's the big sister. I'm the uncle from out of state, and you're the rich nephew no one likes but we put up.. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 814a2d2 | Idris: Are all people like this? | humanity human-greatness tardis the-doctor-s-wife vastness potential consciousness doctor-who soul | 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. | friends friendship supporters fake-friends judgmental judgmental-people support reliance defend speak judgment cowardice | 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 vishous paranormal paranormal-romance vampires | 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. | opportunity learning motivational inspirational | 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 pillow-book love inspirational | 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. | democrat sex criticism responsibility america inspirational republican victim liberal libertarian art culture trauma | Camille Paglia | |
| 5090f1f | I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. | politics humor inspirational presidents leaders | Harry S. Truman | |
| e26d05d | A daydreamer is prepared for most things. | inspirational | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 624f83d | Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn't exist. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cb0ae97 | I've always avoided confrontation in the past, but this guy was flipping my bitch switch like nothing else. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 45447df | Shit. I'd felt her up, in my sleep. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cdcbed8 | Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. | Alice Munro | ||
| 31eeae3 | Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f25fa5a | But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9535e1a | I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. | trust | Haruki Murakami | |
| 3003085 | Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c1f7ea3 | The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. | James Joyce | ||
| 8493f94 | Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. | death legacy soul | Ray Bradbury | |
| 84cab47 | Live or die, but don't poison everything. | living | Saul Bellow |