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bf93c36 Trees're always a relief, after people. forest humanity nature trees David Mitchell
b76eb9f Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats. Connie Willis
a43d521 There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it. travel Colum McCann
89aee4a Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place. ilona-andrews kids on-the-edge Ilona Andrews
2bf57d0 Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it." Foaly: "Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark?" Orion: "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have." Eoin Colfer
2d721a2 He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. happy life wild Jon Krakauer
06397f8 We're not meant for happiness, you and I. Daphne du Maurier
4717e62 Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy. Elizabeth Gilbert
423f59c She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust. Simone de Beauvoir
6c3c7b3 When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are. Robert Greene
d1840ac When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy. Joseph Heller
28174f0 Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it." -- Dr. Seuss
26dfa5d There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me. divorce falling-out hate love love-to-hate questioning Raymond Carver
b34a8a7 Dee's hand fluttered around her as she spoke. "I was outside, and it looked as if a light show was going on in your bedroom. Daemon said you were probably mas--" And Dee also knew no boundaries. "Ah, no, please don't finish that sentence." He lowered his hands, eyes narrowing at his sister. "Don't ever finish that sentence." Jennifer L. Armentrout
ca6716b I know what's happened," Apollo said after a few seconds. My brows furrowed. "What are you talking about?" He nodded at the board. My gaze dropped to the game and I nearly passed out. He'd spelled SEX and AIDEN with those stupid little squares." Jennifer L. Armentrout
3561151 What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be. last-page love the-threshold Margaret Atwood
f588e22 I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers. Barack Obama
72f0659 How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said. Haruki Murakami
13d0fd1 First we feel. Then we fall. James Joyce
1a1e24c Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. grief senselessness time C.S. Lewis
48adb5d This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there's a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life. C.S. Lewis
57958e8 I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't. C.S. Lewis
bd9da6a Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it." Dr. Seuss
4d76a9e BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice... humor manga Tite Kubo
5a46f96 even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going. Margaret Peterson Haddix
c8898cf The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed. Evelyn Waugh
bf3c5dd Life begins at night night sookie-stackhouse true-blood Charlaine Harris
3aaaa24 I need Jace," said Sebastian. "But in his heart, he's not like me. But are." sebastian-verlac Cassandra Clare
4febd3e Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere." city-of-bones clary-fray funny luke-garroway the-mortal-instruments Cassandra Clare
448f2bd There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw city-of-lost-souls clary-fray cols jace-herondale jace-lightwood jace-wayland the-mortal-instruments tmi Cassandra Clare
749ed2c What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?" -Clary & Jace, pg.306-" Cassandra Clare
73e2ab5 The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
e7e8ec5 Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
ea8d0c3 Aemon's blind white eyes came open. "Egg?" he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. "Egg, I dreamed that I was old." maester-aemon old George R.R. Martin
d1423e5 The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it. Melissa de la Cruz
1a9da1f The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. Fernando Pessoa
5b312d0 If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all. --Percy Jackson Rick Riordan
b554cf6 You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise. percy-jackson promises Rick Riordan
bff5597 I looked at Rachel. "You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? I mean....you talked to Chiron, right?" She managed a faint smile. "You're worried about doing something stupid?" Rick Riordan
d69b9ff See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else. humor religion Jim Butcher
46ca6d4 A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could inspirational Zig Ziglar
fdc504f Only when I fall do I get up again. inspirational Vincent van Gogh
7eeb563 I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. inspirational Helen Keller
97e6b0c Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. inspirational peace religion serenity Thich Nhat Hanh