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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.. | kiss romance jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| d5019be | All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. | inspiration exclusion 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. | inspirational desolation 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. | money drinking heartbreak alcoholism insane mental-illness | Craig Ferguson | |
| 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? | metaphor simile rain copy mimic shakespearean poetic fall wind cry crying despair wit howl | 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? | relationships funny jess-mastriani 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!" | heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson centurion frank-s-promotion frank-zhang house-of-hades jason-grace legion nico-di-angelo 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." | percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena hazel-levesque the-heroes-of-olympus leo-valdez | 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 | |
| 5b00752 | the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. | sorrow despair | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 1c2b954 | The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. | life inspirational | Frances Willard | |
| 093479f | Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going. | life inspirational scars | David Rossi | |
| 45d0f78 | No man is free who is not master of himself. | inspirational | Epictetus | |
| 15be075 | lD`yf hw lGb~ ldh~ l y`rf sr qwth | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 0495130 | Don't be scared of Bambi" the demon said. "She's only curious and maybe a little bit hungry." The thing was named ? " | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5707dcc | If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6979822 | Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where? It is on God that we should wait, as a waiter waits--not for but on the customer--alert, watchful, attentive, with no agenda of his own, ready to do whatever is wanted. 'My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.' (Ps. 62:5 KJV) In Him alone lie our security, our confidence, our trust. A spir.. | trust wondering waiting | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 56c5f82 | It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| e0a72cd | When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, | institutions | D.H. Lawrence | |
| d332c17 | It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 83e8d2a | That's the thing with the young these days, isn't it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 41485c4 | There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6e72f17 | In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 391ce81 | Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true. | truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| 927cc91 | Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?" | C.S. Lewis | ||
| e4b9a9c | It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered .. | fire censorship | Ray Bradbury | |
| 36e5a56 | I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. | Annie Dillard | ||
| cb15c70 | I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be." | love lust | Simone Elkeles | |
| ff05d27 | Realism can break a writer's heart. | writing realism | Salman Rushdie |