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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. | lessons life inspirational 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. | life love inspirational | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 29d3579 | Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little." | venice | Italo Calvino | |
| d629aa5 | All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 5cd0bef | In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7e27b74 | It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. | fate | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| fe4fd83 | There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3ffe4c6 | I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. | parenting parents | Jodi Picoult | |
| b21ebfb | Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy." | C.S. Lewis | ||
| e30d50d | Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 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.. | the-book-of-qualities sensuality | 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 | |
| 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.. | religion freemasonry 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. | secret seclusion punishment | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 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.. | religion freemasonry 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 .. | well-worn-phrases similes nails | 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..." | humor ford-anyone | Douglas Adams | |
| 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." | harry-potter goblet-of-fire moody j-k-rowling mcgonagall | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7208ba2 | Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you. | love gilbert-blythe anne-shirley | 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 | |
| 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. | romance lore paranormal | 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 | ||
| 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. | libraries library scholarship scholar librarians 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 | ||
| c722bec | Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be | David Levithan |