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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8605f03 | She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times--soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses that seemed to go on for hours--and this was no different. The way the memory of someone who had once lived in a house might linger even after they were gone, like a sort of psychic imprint, her body remembered Jace. Remembered the way he taste.. | jace kiss romance | Cassandra Clare | |
| d5019be | All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. | exclusion inspiration paradises utopias wishes | Toni Morrison | |
| 6ce58d6 | The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone. | desolation inspirational monster | Mary Shelley | |
| 10d7959 | Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f0b1e11 | I don't think my sister is old enough to have sex." "V, she's the same age you are." He frowned for a moment. Was she? Or had he been born first?" | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 57f1467 | What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says." | life worries | John Green | |
| 3edd7e9 | Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes. | John Green | ||
| 9c7c6d4 | I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again. | paper-towns | John Green | |
| 17c984f | Everyone wanted me to feed them that story--darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too. | mental-illness | John Green | |
| 56dd826 | Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane. | alcoholism drinking heartbreak insane mental-illness money | Craig Ferguson | |
| 5b00752 | the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. | despair sorrow | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 78e26ef | And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? | copy cry crying despair fall howl metaphor mimic poetic rain shakespearean simile wind wit | Mervyn Peake | |
| aab88a7 | A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 30817b3 | Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. | life under-the-hood | Alan Moore | |
| 5c57591 | You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is with you? | funny jess-mastriani relationships rob-wilkins when-lightning-strikes | Meg Cabot | |
| 50cbdb2 | There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination | Cressida Cowell | ||
| 5bd8dbb | She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1e45fb2 | No," Frank said. "I'm only a centurion." Jason cursed in Latin. "He means he can't control a whole legion. He's not of high enough rank." Nico swung back his black sword at another gryphon. "Well, then, promote him!" | centurion frank-s-promotion frank-zhang heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace legion nico-di-angelo percy-jackson praetor promotion rick-riordan son-of-mars the-rise-of-frank-zhang | Rick Riordan | |
| d2f15cc | That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6660eb6 | We still should have enough time to reach Rome." Hazel scowled. "When you say ..." Leo shrugged. "How do you feel about ?" Hazel put her face in her hands for a count of three. "Sounds about typical for us." | hazel-levesque leo-valdez percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| f887da3 | I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face. "Sadie! Get up," Zia said. "God!" I yelled. "Was that necessary?" "No," admitted Zia." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6f6cbe7 | Hey!" I screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster. "Hey, stupid! Ground beef!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4fb47eb | You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." You are going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" You would've done the same for me." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| ef7c513 | Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been. | knowledge | Jim Butcher | |
| 08439ff | She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles." Wizards don't giggle," I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling." | humor karrin-murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| 1c2b954 | The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. | inspirational life | Frances Willard | |
| 093479f | Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going. | inspirational life scars | David Rossi | |
| 45d0f78 | No man is free who is not master of himself. | inspirational | Epictetus | |
| c7ee8c6 | I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 218d09b | It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons." | lessons mistakes | Norton Juster | |
| de6726a | You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. | wisdom writing | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| c318012 | One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. | desires | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| e4c8d31 | Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reas.. | enlightenment error fallibility humanity humility mankind poetry reason | Alexander Pope | |
| 15f676b | She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 94cb42d | The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place. | Michael Chabon | ||
| ad23213 | You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?" | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 625b8c6 | When we die," she said, "I don't think the gods will even know what to do with us." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cb56146 | I had done everything - everything for that love. I had ripped myself to shreds, I had killed innocents and debased myself, and he had sat beside Amarantha on that throne. And he couldn't do anything, hadn't risked it - hadn't risked being caught until there was only one night left, and all he'd wanted to do wasn't free me, but fuck me. And when Amarantha had broken me, when she had snapped my bones and made my blood boil in its veins, he'd.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 715fdb1 | it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the absolute truth about her--and didn't hate her for it. It would have been really, really nice. She walked away without another word. With each step she took back to her room, that flickering light inside of her guttered. And went out. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4a4e311 | Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impres.. | nature | Terry Pratchett | |
| ed98ea7 | Because you've got guy parts, you're automatically a better mechanic than me? I don't so," Eve said, and bailed out of the passenger side." | eve-rosser gender-stereotypes morganville-vampires sexism shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 0f8ccfb | All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. | halfway macbeth shakespeare wade | William Shakespeare | |
| 4bf0bf4 | Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell. | water | William Shakespeare | |
| fb51292 | What is it about her that is so goddamned special? | Laurell K. Hamilton |