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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d9e595f | Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 04496fb | He found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long. And Colin thought: Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt. Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes other people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinitesimal change ripples outw.. | John Green | ||
| ed4b909 | Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large. | John Green | ||
| e3ea0ff | She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 8428226 | The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees. | unity | T.H. White | |
| 1e28b31 | As you enter the tunnel, the wind gets sucked away, and you squint from the lights overhead. When you adjust the lights, you can see the other side in the distance just as the sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach. Then, you're in the middle of the tunnel, and everything becomes a calm dream. As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get there fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll neve.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 9c10551 | Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, | Marianne Williamson | ||
| f6c2863 | I'll take your bet," he said grimly. "I'm going to win it. And in three months, I'm going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1aca372 | Tobias," I say anyway. My hands shake, but not from fear this time- from anger. "Where is he? What are you doing to him?" "I see no reason to provide that information," says Jeanine... I make my voice flat and factual, like hers. "I see no reason to provide that information." I hear a faint snort. Peter is covering his mouth. Jeanine glares at him, and his laughter effortlessly transforms into a coughing fit. "Mockery is childish, Beatrice,.. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 4cfbd2b | Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. | politicians | George R.R. Martin | |
| 136b0c7 | I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon | Meg Cabot | ||
| e6ac1a6 | Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 40d77ba | there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 9265136 | Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 320c56a | She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her. | fate forget friendship love otp saving-the-world world | Rick Riordan | |
| 23c5f4a | I will see you again,' Hades promised. 'I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.' 'Now I can't tell if you're joking.' Hades's eyes glittered as his form began to fade. 'Then perhaps we are alike in some important ways.' The god vanished. | family father hades nico-di-angelo son | Rick Riordan | |
| d8a66ab | There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 766b270 | It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 257819e | What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3272cc0 | It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2ce7327 | Love doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day | beautiful inspirational life love relationships | David Levithan | |
| 6c8d12a | Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves | inspirational | Joyce Meyer | |
| 4ae1279 | That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. | inspirational life | Antoine de Saint Exupéry | |
| b64c7f8 | Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a professio.. | inspirational | Chris Hadfield | |
| c098d8b | The truth is a bully we all pretend to like | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ce01ac4 | Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me. | flirty funny | Kresley Cole | |
| 6084d7d | who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 568052a | American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough. | Pat Conroy | ||
| ea2ad19 | Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue. | bell hooks | ||
| bc41b20 | This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice." | Isabel Allende | ||
| 2564cf5 | Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth." | dueling harry-potter taunt | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7c10d92 | Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fcee1f8 | She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. | love military | Nicholas Sparks | |
| b7effd9 | How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 213548e | The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ca431bc | larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? | Nicole Krauss | ||
| c8ebefb | Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration. | witch | Paulo Coelho | |
| 68f3622 | Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives. | imagination | Paulo Coelho | |
| 933d41f | Because I wouldn't want to die alone," I said, and my voice wobbled as I looked at Tamlin again, forcing myself to meet his stare. "Because I'd want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that. That's something everyone deserves, human or faerie." | feyre tamilin | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f7f51e3 | She was still on the fall down. There was no getting up, because there was no bottom. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f6b71d4 | He removed her hand from his cheek to kiss the tips of her fingers. "I get scared, too," he murmured onto her skin. "You want to hear something ridiculous? Whenever I'm scared out of my wits, I tell myself: My name is Sam Cortland ... and I will not be afraid. I've been doing it for years." It was her turn to raise her brows. "And that actually works?" He laughed onto her fingers. "Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. But it usually mak.. | sam-cortland | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 053ac17 | For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 3f9e987 | And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you? | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 9a2dfa8 | I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever." | Kim Harrison |