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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 503f538 | No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. | words story history humanity reality semiotics truthful narrative memory | Roger Zelazny | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 55544d3 | Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. | books banned-books-week freedom-to-read intellectual-freedom ideas censorship | 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 | ||
| 60f99eb | A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep. | pacing war-and-peace | Leo Tolstoy | |
| e6520c5 | God is the same everywhere. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ac01391 | We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that. | relationships heartbreak | Leo Tolstoy | |
| ec42657 | The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 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. | struggle poem poetry death strength life love bukowski stronger strength-through-adversity | Charles Bukowski | |
| b666a8a | Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 83038d5 | You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep." "I only did it once." "Once was weird enough, thank you." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 29ec6fa | Shapeshifter parenting motto--if your kid slits somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 70973ef | Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 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 tacos morganville-vampires shane-collins | 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. | typewriters technology | David Sedaris | |
| e0a3c58 | Who is it that can tell me who I am? | William Shakespeare | ||
| ddd0c51 | I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8955dec | But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. | Carl Sagan | ||
| a250a1e | No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. | Jonathan Harker's Journal Bram Stoker | ||
| cc55ce8 | The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 49dc8b0 | L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8ed040b | Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests. | city-of-bones magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| e8b4e05 | There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ef4d2ee | They'd just left when Zsadist came in at a dead run. "Shit, shit, shit..." What's doing, my brother?" "I'm teaching and I'm late." Zsadist grabbed a sleeve of bagels, a turkey leg out of the refridge and a quart of ice cream from the freezer. "Shit." "That's your breakfast?" "Shut up. It's almost a turkey sandwich." | J.R. Ward | ||
| cbbcace | But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him ...And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls' shirts and stuff. Augustus, my friend, Godspeed. | John Green | ||
| 95d8592 | When you're as charming and physically attractive as myself, it's easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that's the trick. | John Green | ||
| ebb9f12 | She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 97d3612 | My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my fee.. | John Piper | ||
| 95f85ae | Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. | inspirational | T.H. White | |
| 011bc65 | It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. | sociology technology | John Brunner | |
| 12f0c68 | Men have scars, women mysteries. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| fe38b5d | I am become a sour woman, Catelyn thought. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 657640d | You cannot miss what you have never had. | miss | christopher paolini | |
| d6f7bd8 | Eragon] wondered. , said Saphira, | inheritance-cycle | Christopher Paolini | |
| a87cc7e | Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do | Jim Butcher | ||
| 57c8f11 | There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor w.. | humor horses statues | Terry Pratchett | |
| f018dc0 | Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. | inspirational | Swami Vivekananda | |
| 97f62cd | Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. | life inspirational | Og Mandino | |
| 0632d69 | Day after day, day after day | revenge faith god inspirational curse | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |