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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 106e4b8 | You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature. | intelligence | Philip Roth | |
| f6d6443 | If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b487ec1 | For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me -- as a girl and later as a woman -- to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life. | Lisa See | ||
| f2558e7 | Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. | proverb | Frank Herbert | |
| e124ac3 | There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 7f6a6f5 | Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| b81ca4b | a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever.. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| c617357 | Normal? I'm not normal enough for you?" Carlos says. "You want this guy instead? Did you notice his hair doesn't move? That's not normal. You want to date him again, go ahead. Hell, if you want to marry him and be Kiara Barra the rest of your life, be my guest." "That's not want I--" "I don't want to hear it. Hasta," Carlos says, ignoring me and walking away. I feel my face heat in embarrassment as I look at Michael. "Sorry. Carlos can he a.. | rules-of-attraction | Simone Elkeles | |
| b13e810 | You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow. | Charles de Lint | ||
| f544189 | Behind every successful fortune there is a crime. | crime every fortune successful | Mario Puzo | |
| bb4f756 | Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it? | David Levithan | ||
| 5b96fd9 | that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become? | David Levithan | ||
| ea304ba | people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 03e9096 | I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. - | grudges rage venting | William Blake | |
| 327c5ff | Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| e7dc604 | He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. | pleasure | Christopher Marlowe | |
| f8aeb4e | Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job. | love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 09da915 | Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. | reality | Philip K. Dick | |
| 32b6e42 | Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. | paranoia | William S. Burroughs | |
| 657726a | Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 9d283c2 | People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b887e41 | Just behave and don't do anything you'll regret in the morning." Her gaze drifted over my shoulder, and she mustered, "Wouldn't be much." "Mom!" Laughing, she gave me a light shove. "I'm old, not dead." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a0ba852 | Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. | mercy prospero revenge school shakespeare tempest zombies | Max Brooks | |
| 88615b5 | Amos sipped his coffee. "Sorry if that distubed you. Khufu's very picky. He only eats foods that end in -o. Doritos, burritos, flamingos." I blinked. "Did you say-" "Carter," Sadie warned. She looked a little queasy, like she'd already had this conversation. "Don't ask." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6dbf907 | If it's in the bin, it's public property. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 2411ac2 | How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The at.. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 049fd92 | His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity. They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically w.. | isolation popularity reading | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 492084c | It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs. | love romance | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 8eec49e | Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them. | injustice | William Faulkner | |
| b3a8c04 | Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory. | James Joyce | ||
| e8ceb3f | In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself. | literature quote | C.S. Lewis | |
| f81254f | Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 95a47db | All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e121d08 | Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?" No, I'm just opportunistic." I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he.. | sweet-talk | Charlaine Harris | |
| df03f2e | I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness. | ardor argument changed-mind dispute force open-mind pleasure pride reason victory weakness | Michel de Montaigne | |
| f1ee142 | Valentine!" "You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their names." "What I want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name." - Clary Fray and Valentine Morgenstern (City of Ashes)" | clary-fray valentine-morgenstern | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8e227bc | We are Nephilim; we fight our own battles." "That's not precisely true, is it?" said a velvety voice. It was Magnus Bane, wearing a long and glittering coat, multiple hoops in his ears, and a roguish expression. Clary had no idea where he'd come from. "You lot have used the help of warlocks on more than one occasion in the past, and paid handsomely for it too." Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City,.. | luke magnus-bane malachi sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
| dc09b05 | The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above Jace. He was grinning. "Nice," he said. "As graceful as a falling snowflake." "Was I screaming?" She asked, genuinely curious. "You know, on the way down." He nodded. "Thankfully no one's home, or they would have assumed I was murdering you." "Ha. Y.. | city-of-fallen-angels clary-fray funny humor jace-wayland love romance sweet the-mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| b034813 | Simon was looking at Jace as if he were both fascinating and also a little alarming. 'Did I--did we ever--did I bite you?' Jace touched the scar on his throat. 'I can't believe you remember that.' 'Did we...roll around on the bottom of a boat?' 'Yes you bit me, yes, I kind of liked it, yes, let's not talk about it again,' said Jace. 'You're not a vampire anymore. Focus. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 3c27d6b | Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it." | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2e1f292 | Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 3a8f716 | A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation. | Stephen King | ||
| 7003213 | I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 6c289eb | Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. | Kurt Vonnegut |