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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cbb1bcb | There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. | inspirational | Zig Ziglar | |
| c3759d5 | You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through. | inspirational lessons life trials trouble | Jonathan Anthony Burkett | |
| 383b6d5 | The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last. | inspirational life love | Jonathan Larson | |
| b7b5a72 | When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that's when he won't want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy. | inspirational | Sherry Argov | |
| 490408b | You've maddened me for you...have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well. | lore paranormal romance | Kresley Cole | |
| 95a4e83 | Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 2e23de4 | This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6c3c41f | Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. | friendship | Henry David Thoreau | |
| e519340 | You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 4c95178 | Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 05e2050 | Hello, Professor McGonagall," said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher. "What -- what are you doing?" said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferret's progress through the air. "Teaching," said Moody. "Teach -- Moody, " shrieked Professor McGonagall, the books spilling out of her arms. "Yep," said Moody. "Moody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment!" said Professor McGonagall weakly." | goblet-of-fire harry-potter j-k-rowling mcgonagall moody | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7208ba2 | Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you. | anne-shirley gilbert-blythe love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 18aa2c4 | You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. | mercy | Graham Greene | |
| 4a7061a | We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor. Because they never understand us, but they never give up. Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves. Because they come from little boys. Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but th.. | men reasons-for-loving | Paulo Coelho | |
| ba0e116 | And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever. | sam-cortland | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 46fb70b | Nesta looked at the king with death twining around his hands, then down at Cassian. And covered Cassian's body with her own. Cassian went still - then his hand slid over her back. Together. They'd go together. | cassian nesta | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ff63543 | it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dd2eb99 | The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. | tropes | Terry Pratchett | |
| 61fcd98 | The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 4e7b476 | O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space - were it not that I have bad dreams. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 2daddd1 | A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And specks of dried-up tears, And dust of dreams that catch and cling For years and years and years... | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 7e3629e | Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control. | Joan Didion | ||
| 74f9b39 | Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. | science | Nikola Tesla | |
| 5f5948f | Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?' 'Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.' 'Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." ' 'Freaky, you say?' 'Hell yes!' the kid said, standing up. 'I heard wh.. | freemasonry religion secret-society | Dan Brown | |
| 08c3933 | Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was .. | nails similes well-worn-phrases | Charles Dickens | |
| 9716f60 | Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood..." | ford-anyone humor | Douglas Adams | |
| c455102 | Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth. | Anne Rice | ||
| 9c4f120 | Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?' 'Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.' 'Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." ' 'Freaky, you say?' 'Hell yes!' the kid said, standing up. 'I heard wh.. | freemasonry religion secret-society | Dan Brown | |
| e37110c | The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule. | Mark Helprin | ||
| dc480ee | You must suffer me to go my own dark way. | punishment seclusion secret | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| c722bec | Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be | David Levithan | ||
| 900cec6 | To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. .. | Alain de Botton | ||
| e9940ad | Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves. | life readers reading writers | Lloyd Alexander | |
| f2fa3cc | As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms. | controversy inspirational science | Philip Pullman | |
| 207777f | A Frenchman's self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishman's self-assurance is founded on his being a citizen of the best organized state in the world and on the fact that, as an Englishman, he always knows what to do, and that whatever he does as an Englishman is unquestionably correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forg.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4053ef3 | The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap. | librarians libraries library scholar scholarship school | David Eddings | |
| f7e4680 | But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2febf39 | Curving back within myself I create again and again. | Anonymous | ||
| 6ed0134 | You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up." | meta science-fiction | Philip K. Dick | |
| 42ee619 | Sensuality does not wear a watch but she always gets to the essential places on time. She is adventurous and not particularly quiet. She was reprimanded in grade school because she couldn't sit still all day long. She needs to move. She thinks with her body. Even when she goes to the library to read Emily Dickinson or Emily Bronte, she starts reading out loud and swaying with the words, and before she can figure out what is happening, she i.. | sensuality the-book-of-qualities | J. Ruth Gendler | |
| 873a62a | DADDY You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time-- Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one grey toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic When it pours bean green over blue In the waters of beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover yo.. | onomatopoeia prose rhythm | Sylvia Plath | |
| a9ee9ef | This was a bad idea," I whispered. "It was probably the smartest idea you've ever had." I rubbed my palms on my hips. "It's going to take a lot more than Thanksgiving dinner and a Christmas tree to get laid." "Damn. There goes my whole plan." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ade082f | Was your mom a gardener?' I asked innocently. 'What?' Ren's mouth hung open slightly. 'Because a face like yours belongs planted on the ground. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1f02b3b | Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact. | Sophie Kinsella |