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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ce13942 | Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| e0af63e | The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the Prince said gently. 'Maybe we can help you.' She sat down in the same chair as before. 'All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me.' Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' She looked at Humperdi.. | love | William Goldman | |
| aaa90d7 | Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster | Mario Puzo | ||
| 125dab0 | 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. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt. It just has to be. | inspirational life love relationships | David Levithan | |
| 2ba5195 | It's so easy to be easy--if you let it. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 8a698c5 | It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 20b6f8b | That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 1ee2908 | You should name him Fezzik." "Inconceivable." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 79e4100 | When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough. | ilona-andrews magic-bleeds pieces raphael | Ilona Andrews | |
| fd46223 | The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 462ccf6 | I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 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. | decadent u-s | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 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.. | games loneliness 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. | life perfect perfection something-wicked-this-way-comes | Ray Bradbury | |
| 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." | dionysus gladiator pac-man percy-jackson 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 | observation visual | Ken Kesey | |
| 4a40c4f | October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content." | endings happy-endings stories | Neil Gaiman | |
| b0995fd | I am happy in my prison of passion | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 6f5f337 | I dreamed of a green place once," he whispered. "A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding. If there are other worlds, then maybe there is one where I was a good brother and a good son." -- | Cassandra Clare | ||
| fbc170f | Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 568a43a | Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c85ff47 | If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. | faith philosophy science scientific-method | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 9e8e658 | I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed but what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals. | John Green | ||
| a094756 | Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. | dystopian veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 6f3e356 | All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right. | four tobias tobias-eaton veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| da052ec | All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is cha.. | chaos fix | Alan Moore | |
| 354a434 | Leo cried, "Hold on! Let's have some manners here. Can I at least find out who has the honor of destroying me?" "I am Cal!" the ox grunted. He looked very proud of himself, like he'd taken a long time to memorize that sentence. "That's short for Calais," the love god said. "Sadly, my brother cannot say words with more than two syllables--" "Pizza! Hockey! Destroy!" Cal offered. "--which includes his own name," the love god finished. "I am C.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2d6b5b6 | Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 28e38be | 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." -- | dionysus gladiator pac-man percy-jackson pinochle | Rick Riordan |