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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 008afed | Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them. | hell lucifer | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6dd8b14 | Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of Eric's nostrils that the intoxicating scent clung to me. Eric's eyes closed in ecstasy, and he actually licked his lips. I felt like a T-bone just out of reach of a hungry dog. | fairies humor intoxication sookie-stackhouse vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| ce97f14 | Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7ea4b21 | It's like Dungeons and Dragons, but ." Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect. "It's like what?" "It's a game," Clary explained. She felt vaguely embarrassed. "People pretend to be wizards and elves, and they kill monsters and stuff." Jace looked stupefied. Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct." Simon .. | fantasy reality | Cassandra Clare | |
| 12f97cf | A moment later, Helen had returned; she was walking slowly now, and carefully, her hand on the back of a thin boy with a mop of wavy brown hair. He couldn't have been older than twelve, and Clary recognized him immediately. Helen, her hand firmly clamped around the wrist of a younger boy whose hands were covered with blue wax. He must have been playing with the tapers in the huge candelabras that decorated the sides of the nave. He looked a.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2847c47 | I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. | Stephen King | ||
| 3077a2d | I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch. | John Green | ||
| f446260 | The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people. | John Green | ||
| 265043c | It's nice to have things to look forward to. | inspirational look-forward-to stephen-chbosky the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower things thinking | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 704622a | One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves. On the one hand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practise the very antithesis of these principles. How often are our lives characterised by a high blood pressure of creeds .. | love-in-action martin-luther-king-jr peace war words | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 267463b | What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voic.. | liberty life love soulmates | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 645e09d | Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us. | John Irving | ||
| 45c9782 | Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. | authority | Alan Moore | |
| 165348e | I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 46d2579 | We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run. | Susan Cain | ||
| b3887bb | I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear. "God of medicine, at your service." He passed his hand over Annabeth's face and spoke an incantation. Immediately the bruises faded. Her cuts and scars disappeared. Her arm straightened, and she sighed in her sleep. Apollo grinned. "She'll be fine in a few .. | apollo percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 78df999 | Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven. | hera percy-jackson the-seven | Rick Riordan | |
| f95ad8f | You can't burn me. | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| d854c98 | Bob says hello," He told the stars. The Argo II sailed into the night." | no sad | Rick Riordan | |
| a33d596 | No, no," Leo said. "Rainbows. Very macho." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 54a7073 | What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a125ff7 | This is the weird aftermath, when it is not exactly over, and yet you have given it up. You go back and forth in your head, often, about giving it up. It's hard to understand, when you are sitting there in your chair, having breakfast or whatever, that giving it up is stronger than holding on, that "letting yourself go" could mean you have succeeded rather than failed. You eat your goddamn Cheerios and bicker with the bitch in your head tha.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 82ad1ba | Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes. | agreement-with-reality changing inspirational labels letting-go life motivational | Steve Maraboli | |
| fc21df4 | I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything | drama fiction inspirational romance self-help | Sarah Dessen | |
| 28864c6 | Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward. | growth inspirational | Wil Wheaton | |
| e862212 | I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| b0316c8 | When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 294162a | You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!" "And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed." | compassion | Judith McNaught | |
| 5675e3d | Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 127f21e | Sad stories make good books | inspirational | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 7304c89 | Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6f2b2a9 | Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports. | romance | P.D. James | |
| 775cbf4 | I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6aca90d | Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.' Like you?' On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a ma.. | different | Paulo Coelho | |
| 81cdfb7 | Two black boots came into view, then a pair of knees as someone crouched on the edge of the ring. "Get up," Chaol whispered. She couldn't bring herself to look him in the face. It was over.(...) "Get up," Chaol said again, louder. She could only stare at the white line of chalk that marked the ring.(...) "Celaena," Chaol said gently. And then she heard the scraping noise as his hand came into view, sliding across the flagstones. His fingert.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| fdf9d2a | Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively] "Don't they teach you anything in your schools?" "Not about ." "Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google." | education google humor myrnin | Rachel Caine | |
| c558cd6 | If you are a woman, if you're a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person od intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. | notorious-c-h-o november | Margaret Cho | |
| 53bd8ca | Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischi.. | scene-v | William Shakespeare | |
| e2a557d | Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| a5edee3 | California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. | california lifestyle society | Don DeLillo | |
| 032f521 | Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect the shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will.. | Joan Didion | ||
| fb84c38 | A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this. | horse humor | Steven Pressfield | |
| 6a2b3cd | There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 3e241a6 | She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. | Jeffrey Eugenides |