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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| b504c8b | Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. | education power tyranny | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | realism writing | Salman Rushdie | |
| 1ac8afc | It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 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. | bogeyman dragon dragons fairy-tales inspirational | 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. | humourous protectiveness | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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. | personal-growth superiority women | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 15be075 | lD`yf hw lGb~ ldh~ l y`rf sr qwth | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 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 .. | censorship fire | Ray Bradbury | |
| 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 waiting wondering | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 .. | jace mortal-instruments romanian sebastian | Cassandra Clare | |
| 976da32 | As long as I can dream, I will dream of you. | clary-fray dreaming jace love mortal-instruments | 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 |