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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3715ee3 | I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 39b1ea4 | A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end. | money pursuit-of-happiness | Albert Camus | |
| e385d72 | And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?" "That's right," I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word. He shook his head. "You're incredible." -- | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 842ad90 | They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| e045241 | Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. | people honesty mask | Salman Rushdie | |
| a8f1e8a | What do you say to someone who is not the same and yet completely the same? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| f0fd1f7 | And I realize ... it's okay. It's okay if St. Clair and I never become more than friends. His friendship alone has strengthened me in a way that no one else's ever has. He swept me from my room and showed me independence. In other words, he was exactly what I needed. I won't forget it. And I certainly don't want to lose it. | etienne anna-and-the-french-kiss st-clair | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 6a5ac0f | If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 362d4c9 | Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in mid.. | drinks tequila | Tom Robbins | |
| b2d8798 | For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. | science | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 5bbe9fd | A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east. | sunset | John Steinbeck | |
| abd57bd | Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head. | heaven land | John Steinbeck | |
| fa0c02e | There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. 'Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round--apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long ca.. | holidays | Charles Dickens | |
| ddec0b4 | That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 5837430 | we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. | Truman Capote | ||
| 27045d2 | Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. | Herman Melville | ||
| 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 | throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 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.. | music growing-up | 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. | words literature reading | 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. | stepping-stone tread obstacles | Enid Blyton | |
| 9029a07 | to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face! | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 3ce0cb4 | Kings are the slaves of history. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a9ae499 | Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. | Anonymous | ||
| e07f1c9 | It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. | George Orwell | ||
| 6d91c62 | Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper t.. | writing self-doubt doubts | William Goldman | |
| 8445c44 | Why fit in when you're born to stand out? | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 1f8ab98 | Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given. | David Levithan | ||
| aa6de07 | You're taking a nap? Come on, Kate, I need you for this fight. Stop lying around." "You must think you're funny." "Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far." "Everything I do, I learned from you, boy toy." "Boy toy?" Curran asked. "Would you prefer ?" | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6b66624 | I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores. | insult | Christopher Moore | |
| fa7f5b0 | You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. | friends schoolmates pity school | Christopher Hitchens | |
| ac963b0 | Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something. | vegetarianism vegetarian | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| e8ea11e | CORALINE'S STORY THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END. | dance sossajes | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2f1808e | Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. | Carl Sagan | ||
| fcf4bab | Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7c9a649 | We've been here before, haven't we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I'm secure in my sexuality. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| d4585bf | Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 257bf21 | He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. "You want to tell me what this is?" he demanded. "It's a door, Jace," said Clary." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2c3c470 | Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed." | Cassandra Clare |