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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. | lucifer hell | 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. | humor intoxication fairies 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 .. | reality fantasy | 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 .. | words war love-in-action martin-luther-king-jr peace | 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.. | life love soulmates liberty | 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 .. | percy-jackson apollo | 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. | percy-jackson hera 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. | labels letting-go motivational agreement-with-reality life inspirational changing | 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 | fiction romance inspirational drama 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. | inspirational growth | Wil Wheaton | |
| 707cc35 | In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places. | Alice Munro | ||
| 104b7a9 | I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and c.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f542932 | Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. | inspirational | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 025e39a | It's like when you put instant rice pudding mix in a bowl in the microwave and push the button, and you take the cover off when it rings, and there you've got ricing pudding. I mean, what happens in between the time when you push the switch and when the microwave rings? You can't tell what's going on under the cover. Maybe the instant rice pudding first turns into macaroni gratin in the darkness when nobody's looking and only then turns bac.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b170294 | My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bfd8df4 | This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | ||
| b69ffb1 | There have been men before ... who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself... as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 34ab4f2 | There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We.. | holocaust | Elie Wiesel | |
| f5d9ee6 | Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 69f4e64 | I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. | Anne Rice | ||
| 910ade3 | Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| db47af4 | You gotta imagine what's never been. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| d499378 | You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 5e5e218 | You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. | kindness | Anne Lamott | |
| c66a4d2 | A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary? | John Grogan | ||
| 6ca2601 | The fight unfolded like background noise. White noise. In the foreground, even with his ghastly pale face looking dead in my hands, my fingers clenching his ragged hair, all I could see was random images of Fang, Fang telling me stupid fart jokes from the dog crate next to mine at the school, trying to make me laugh. Fang asleep at Jeb's old house, and me jumping wildly on his bed to wake him up. Him pretending to be asleep. Me laughing wh.. | James Patterson | ||
| 102bc2d | Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a5edee3 | California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. | lifestyle california 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 |