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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1ac8afc | It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| d18ea9f | Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 64b138a | Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| b504c8b | Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. | education tyranny power | Ayn Rand | |
| e661775 | I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word. | Nora Roberts | ||
| fc889db | We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better. | Rick Warren | ||
| 6f69117 | Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. | Umberto Eco | ||
| de6726a | You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. | writing wisdom | 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.. | mankind enlightenment poetry humanity reason error fallibility humility | 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 | ||
| 80decdd | I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time. | fantasy | Tamora Pierce | |
| 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 | |
| 746fb30 | Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. | sorrow | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 1abedc2 | I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| df980f3 | God is an experience of supreme love. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 075c51a | I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man. | women personal-growth superiority | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 9bc7990 | You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see. " | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| b2a06c2 | we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| ea2cbd8 | Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. | fairy-tales inspirational bogeyman dragons dragon | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 03f2c16 | Fuck the pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the moment my back was turned, they attacked my wife. I owe them nothing. | protectiveness humourous | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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 morganville-vampires shane-collins gender-stereotypes sexism | 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. | shakespeare halfway wade macbeth | 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 | ||
| 4e35fe1 | They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0a30f6a | I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped. | gaiman neil | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6e0eb68 | Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| ab4f73e | Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 93331e9 | What happens in the demon realms stays in the demon realms," said Jace." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0b2e38b | Indeed." Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. "The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?" "Duck pies in the park," said Jem under his breath, and he and Will smiled at each other, just a flash, before the door opened and the Consul swept it." | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5664114 | And I behold London, a Human awful wonder of God' He (Will) stared out over the landscape. "Milton thought Hell was a city, you know. I think maybe he had it half-right. Perhaps London is just Hell's entrance, and we are th damned souls refusing to pass through, fearing that what we will find on the other side will be worse than the horror we already know." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a82b8da | he's probably never met a six-foot tall hot elf-women in a fur bikini either. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 3924fb5 | So you speak French?" Isabelle sighed. "I wish I spoke another language. But Hodge never thought we needed to learn anything but ancient Greek and Latin, and nobody speaks those." "I also speak Russian and Italian. And some Romanian," Sebastian said with a modest smile. "I could teach you some phrases-" "Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said .. | romanian jace mortal-instruments sebastian | Cassandra Clare | |
| 976da32 | As long as I can dream, I will dream of you. | love clary-fray jace mortal-instruments dreaming | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1b94447 | You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar. | music | Stephen King | |
| bf51d2f | Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real. | Stephen King |