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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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| e30d50d | Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch.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 | ||
| 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. | lover-avenged rehvenge | 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 | liars manipulation men-and-women narcissism narcissists politicians politics preachers sociopathology sociopaths 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." | lisa-kleypas mckenna romance | 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.. | love magic science | Anais Nin | |
| 9374332 | Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. "Keep it simple." | chinese-handcuffs frank-zhang heroes-of-olympus keep-it-simple percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena | 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. | author fantasy inspirational | Kate Forsyth | |
| 9b60845 | T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish. | inspirational | Garth Stein | |
| bd5ecd6 | Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 95bb6bb | It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? | friendship | Willa Cather | |
| c551dfc | Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. | life | Yann Martel | |
| c080e12 | Merlin's beard. | merlin | J.K. Rowling | |
| f82df94 | All those poor elves I haven't set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren't enough hats! | granger harry-potter hats hermione houseelves knit knitted-hats | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3d0c7e0 | Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 258e5c9 | The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| de82d14 | Denial is an ugly thing. | Nicholas Sparks |