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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 world friendship love otp saving-the-world forget | 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 hades son nico-di-angelo father | 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 | relationships life love inspirational beautiful | 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. | life inspirational | 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 | |
| 4d3807d | Kids chase the love that eludes them. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 69fdc3f | There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? | responsibility voyeurism | William S. Burroughs | |
| 513f135 | We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world--bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. | u-s decadent | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 6f37dc3 | I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we? | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 680262f | Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| c5a2a91 | I forced myself to stop thinking about Daemon, about anything I didn't want to share with Archer, which was pretty much everything right now. So I thought about belly dancing foxes wearing grass skirts. Archer snorted. "You're weird." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1c795dd | You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules." | percy-jackson dionysus gladiator pac-man pinochle | Rick Riordan | |
| f7ffda4 | Why I'm Not Where You Are | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 1deb982 | Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss. | Franz Kafka | ||
| c5cb45a | I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it. | loss | Jodi Picoult | |
| b2f902b | It's choice that makes us human. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| df63cc5 | The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon | visual observation | Ken Kesey | |
| 449a974 | Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll pl.. | loneliness games lonely | Dr. Seuss | |
| 037afee | Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. | perfection life something-wicked-this-way-comes perfect | Ray Bradbury | |
| 46d1a16 | But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. | Alan Paton | ||
| beb5b99 | You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very much | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 2357358 | Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool." | James Patterson | ||
| 5c911d3 | The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this. | writing | Paul Auster | |
| 5e4f9b0 | No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 4d52033 | It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would rather have stayed there in peace. | J.R.R. Tolkien |