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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 36ad6f4 | Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c4c3b46 | Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ | christianity | C.S. Lewis | |
| b7dcb12 | Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. | suicide | Cormac McCarthy | |
| c264cf1 | A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 9a25156 | People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| e65cd8b | She who saves a single soul, saves the universe. | universe saves cheshire single wonderland cat soul | Lewis Carroll | |
| e4075b9 | When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 1fe0feb | Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. | Truman Capote | ||
| 2eb6a6d | The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to .. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 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! | harry-potter granger houseelves knit knitted-hats hermione 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 | ||
| 96231db | It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right. | hope love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 731179c | I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 31d7ede | But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own...bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in t.. | Libba Bray | ||
| cb55aa1 | She wasn't afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. 'I'm afraid of committing myself,' she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her l.. | life love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 4bad0c3 | She stared at the castle unflinchingly, her form silhouetted against the blazing brightness that sat on the edge of the Avery River. Clouds gathered above them and she raised her head. Through a clearing in the swirling mass, a cluster of stars could be seen. He couldn't help thinking that they gazed down at her... The image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back | chaol-westfall throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d423f5b | There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 9c83493 | And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 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 | |
| 4c3b6b3 | I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. | illness reason notes-from-the-underground fyodor-dostoyevsky disease intellect | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 2e87b1c | One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ddcd585 | Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| bef775f | She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6a6908a | Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 85f1f92 | The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present...yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable. | present past | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 91d1387 | I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. | ignatious-j-reilly new-orleans | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 755aaaa | Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 681ed66 | It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 10b846a | No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise. | confidence inspirational | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 85d779c | What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. | ridicule | John Bunyan | |
| 7f98ad4 | Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah | P.C. Cast | ||
| a0b6832 | You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman! | unrequited-love | Thomas Hardy | |
| 5860218 | Let's start a new tomorrow, today. | inspirational | Neil Gaiman | |
| c967320 | Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? | poet | Neil Gaiman | |
| 02df7f7 | The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow. | life love | Tess Gerritsen | |
| 6b5c08e | They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is. | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| e45e1c9 | You are not the last dream of my soul. You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime's worth. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a88703b | If you have a soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame. | clockwork-angel jem | Cassandra Clare | |
| 34bbe5c | Why did you?" Clary asked. "Why did I what?" "Help me back there." "You're my sister." She swallowed. In the morning light, Sebastian's face had some color in it. There were faint burns along his neck where demon ichor had splashed him. "You never cared that I was your sister before." "Didn't I?" His black eyes flicked up and down her. "Our father's dead," he said. "There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the M.. | sebastian-verlac siblings | Cassandra Clare |