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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc8ba5c | Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d772ff6 | I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange.. | hope life | Jim Butcher | |
| 6931405 | It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive. | humor music | Terry Pratchett | |
| ff19394 | The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| b1db042 | Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em. | rules | Terry Pratchett | |
| bada1b7 | We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. | answers human inspirational nature opinons truth | Kurt Cobain | |
| a6b67e4 | Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. | faith inspirational | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 6c81301 | be it peace or happines | inspirational poem | Charles Bukowski | |
| 0240911 | I close my eye | bieber inspirational justin pray song | Justin Bieber | |
| 919d4b1 | Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs | inspirational | Jim Rohn | |
| d334eaa | My sun sets to rise again. | inspirational rebirth | Robert Browning | |
| 7ef8a65 | Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| a3d54f0 | First of all, I'm not narcissistic." When she opened her lips to argue, he said, "I know Narkissos of Thespiae -- while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 55544d3 | Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. | banned-books-week books censorship freedom-to-read ideas intellectual-freedom | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| a39819f | One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 64fdcba | Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise." -- | J K Rowling | ||
| d78514a | I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c30966d | For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 25cf7ca | Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. | life metaphor violin | E.M. Forster | |
| 44893a7 | Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers. 'I'm not putting them on,' said old Archie in indignation. 'I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks. | muggles nightgown | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7253ccf | The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sur.. | inspirational love marriage | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 1e456c1 | He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes against the memory of a thousand other kisses and touched his lips to hers. He felt a kind of spark, and all at once he felt her slowly coming back to him. She was the arm that held him close in times of trouble, she was the whisper on the pillow beside him at night. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 62f8f5c | Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| b8b1fd8 | I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Anoth.. | history humor motivation stonehenge | Bill Bryson | |
| 2b0b339 | Because hers was not a story of darkness. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3df9889 | When you lick me," he said roughly, "I want to be alone--far away from everyone. Because when you lick me, Feyre," he said, pressing nipping kisses to my jaw, my neck, "I'm going to let myself roar loud enough to bring down a mountain." -- | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 00629b9 | It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn't do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn't care because it didn't know what "fair" meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you." -- | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e5ee4bb | She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. 'Nuh-uh. Mine.' 'Share!' she demanded. 'Man, you are one grabby girlfriend.' She grinned. It always made her feel so fiercly warm inside to hear him say that- the girlfriend part, not the grabby part. 'If you love me, you'll give me a taco.' 'Seriously? That's all you got? What about you'll.. | funny humor morganville-vampires shane-collins tacos | Rachel Caine | |
| b07d8e4 | At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me. | technology typewriters | David Sedaris | |
| e0a3c58 | Who is it that can tell me who I am? | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5698cba | A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. | Rick Warren | ||
| baebf1a | It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget"--and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change." | forget time | John Steinbeck | |
| 0eea93c | Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. | Dan Brown | ||
| 74339c1 | Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8e75be6 | I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights. | sharp | Raymond Chandler | |
| 80d058b | Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department. | Truman Capote | ||
| 29d90cd | Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well t.. | religion | Douglas Adams | |
| 2552460 | He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals! | complication death slavery war | Albert Camus | |
| 29e9fda | Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition." "But I feel better," Jared answered, sullen. Doc smiled the tiniest smile. "Well, maybe a few more minutes of unconsciousness won't kill him." | jared stephenie-meyer the-host | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 48419d2 | When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| a2b4f27 | It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with. | inspirational life-and-living | Stephen Fry | |
| d7d62cb | The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but i.. | David Levithan | ||
| 7305ffa | having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for. | bukowski death life love poem poetry strength strength-through-adversity stronger struggle | Charles Bukowski | |
| b666a8a | Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice. | Scott Westerfeld |