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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | reading life readers 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. | science inspirational controversy | Philip Pullman | |
| 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 | ||
| 6e8ae9c | He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0c6b1c3 | He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 45ee79c | Simon's dark eyes were serious. "I trust you," he said "I don't trust ." He cut his glance toward Jace, who was walking a few paces ahead of them, apparently conversing with the cat. Clary wondered what they were talking about. Politics? Opera? The high price of tuna?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2a11841 | I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f854e17 | Amor verus numquam moritur... | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8da8f79 | Do you think it's possible to do something so bad, even if you didn't mean to do it, that you can never come back from it? That no one can forgive you?" Luke looked at him for a long, silent moment. Then he said, "Think of someone you love, Simon. love. Is there anything they could ever do that would mean you would stop loving them?" | luke-garroway simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 61205c6 | Shotgun!" announced Clary as Jace came back around the side of the van. Alec grabbed for his bow, strapped across his back. "Where?" "She means she wants the front seat," said Jace, pushing wet hair out of his eyes." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 60061c4 | Lonely was much better than alone. | solitude | Toni Morrison | |
| 143887c | If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 63f131a | This was why people got mated, Rehv suddenly thought. Fuck the sex and the social position. If they were smart, they did it to make a house that had no walls and an invisible roof and a floor that no could walk on-and yet the structure was a shelter no storm could blow down, no match could torch up, no passage of years could degrade. That was when it hit him. A mated bond like that helped you through shit nights like this. | rehvenge lover-avenged | J.R. Ward | |
| 0bd032f | I thought you hung the moon. | John Green | ||
| 0aac8db | When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist. | John Green | ||
| eaf0281 | its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the power to do its killing. | hazel-grace | John Green | |
| ca60ed8 | He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| ece1376 | Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears | women politics liars preachers sociopathology sociopaths narcissists manipulation narcissism politicians men-and-women | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 1dd0a20 | He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?" "Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body." "No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death." | romance mckenna lisa-kleypas | Lisa Kleypas | |
| dafd03d | Eyes open, then," I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don't really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are." | tris | Veronica Roth | |
| 17cdb28 | The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer. If that's true, Lord Eddard, tell me... why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones? | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 83b1ab5 | High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life--those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in high school? High school is something everybody should be ready to lose. | Meg Cabot | ||
| ebda64e | And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it.. | magic science love | Anais Nin | |
| 9374332 | Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. "Keep it simple." | heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena chinese-handcuffs keep-it-simple frank-zhang | Rick Riordan | |
| d23a730 | Beckendorf walked up with his helmet under his arm. 'She likes you, man.' 'Sure,' I muttered. 'She likes me for target practice.' 'Nah, they always do that. A girl starts trying to kill you, you know she's into you. 'Makes a lot of sense. | beckendorf charles chase jackson percy | Rick Riordan | |
| e19a7a4 | People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1be50ed | I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot! | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 4cea457 | Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... | demi-lovato inspirational skyscraper | Demi Lovato | |
| f523876 | But I'm not special", Bailey says, "not the way they are. I'm not anyone important. | inspirational | Erin Morgenstern | |
| ea28667 | May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave. | fantasy inspirational author | Kate Forsyth | |
| 9b60845 | T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish. | inspirational | Garth Stein | |
| 98f663e | What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 75f2d94 | Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 3b392da | When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of existences is to talk of . To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are , or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by , , and . { } | reason antoine-destutt-de-tracy antoine-louis-claude-destutt comte-de-tracy dugald-stewart john-locke john-stewart-mill stewart tracy john-adams creed materialism atheism angels locke | Thomas Jefferson | |
| d210866 | Jeez, how old are you?" I total y knew how old he was, but I wanted to pick. Aiden cracked his neck. "I turn twenty-one in October." "Huh." I shook the bottle. "So have you always been so... mature?" His brows furrowed. "Mature?" "Yeah, you sound like a dad." I deepened my voice and tried to look stern. "'Don't look at me that way' or else." Aiden blinked slowly. "I don't sound like that and I didn't say 'or else.'" "But if you had, w.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5884054 | It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 657d7b1 | In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you. But you know you must never allow yourself to be awed, that among them there extend for acres and acres the Books You Needn't Read, the Books Made For .. | lists | Italo Calvino | |
| b9e4e8f | Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt--it never comes off. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4967519 | I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over. | Haruki Murakami |