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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fb84c38 | A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this. | humor horse | 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 | ||
| a5bb185 | Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2e362df | For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 501a077 | First with the head, then with the heart. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| d004a42 | and At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. | David Levithan | ||
| b6f308c | Now, I don't believe in doing hugs halfway. I can't stand people who try to hug without touching. A hug should be a full embrace - as I wrap my arms around Tony, I am not just holding him, but also trying to lift off his troubles for a moment so that the only thing he can feel is my presence, my support. | David Levithan | ||
| 3127a91 | I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 9750474 | I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 359fad3 | He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. "I win." | magic-burns ilona-andrews kate-daniels kate maps | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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." | humor education google 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 | ||
| 87c29cd | The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model. | heroes feminism women religion ayaan-hirsi-ali azar-nafisi heroines taliban-treatment-of-women women-in-afghanistan women-in-iraq women-s-rights-in-iran women-s-rights-movement-in-iran iran women-and-religion women-in-iran women-in-islam role-models theocracy iraq islam | Christopher Hitchens | |
| b42a012 | So many things to see, people to do. | paraphrased | Neil Gaiman | |
| accad73 | Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each. | story | Neil Gaiman | |
| e197cdc | Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9cd76dc | Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. | inspirational | Oscar Wilde | |
| 34a4aeb | She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote. | william tessa herondale james grey jem will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 92e38bd | I've mastered many thing's in my life. Navigating the streets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms..." Tessa stared. "Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master' or 'the magister', either. More's the pity..." "Are you highly intoxicated at the moment?" | william-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7d531fe | Maybe Alexander Lightwood would not break his heart. | malec magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 597fe1c | I want you to say dreadfully mad, funny things and make up songs and be--' The Will I fell in love with, she almost said. "And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella." *** "You would make a very ugly woman." "I would not. I would be stunning." Tessa laughed. "There," she said. "There is Will. Isn't that better? Don't you think so?" "I don't know," Will said, eyeing her. "I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard th.. | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| c59e8f1 | We work through this together, remember? No shutting me out. No epic sulks." "I was figuring I could sulk for Idris in the next Olympics," Jace said... "You and Alec could go for pair sulking," said Clary with a smile. "You'd get the gold." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2f9f63f | We spoke of how to say good-bye," Jem said. "When Jonathan bid farewell to David, he said, 'Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn, both of us, saying the Lord be between me and thee, forever.' They did not see each other again, but they did not forget. So it will be with us. When I am Brother Zachariah, when I no longer see the world with my human eyes, I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of m.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2c2ce44 | Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. "And you wonder why we aren't friends." "I just wondered," Gabriel said, in more subdued voice, "if perhaps you have ever had enough." "Enough of what?" "Enough of behaving as you do." Will crossed his arms over his chest. His eyes glistening dangerously. "Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when-" The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, gr.. | gabriel-lightwood will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 36c7bab | Hotter than me? --Jace | jace-humor mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 62bafe9 | I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 523508e | For what are we born if not to aid one another? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| eab0ecf | I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c46acd4 | Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire. | Stephen King | ||
| ac2aeea | Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win. | Stephen King | ||
| 4323504 | For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. | men lust | Stephen King |