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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ec13417 | Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| b852f62 | When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?" It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, but I told her, "Yeah, totally." For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her." | John Green | ||
| 757df5a | Snoring keeps the monsters away. | snoring | Judy Blume | |
| 114a72f | New Year's Eve always terrifies me. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| ddcbdad | If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane. | love | John Irving | |
| 9ac5225 | You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 755305e | He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope. | tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 27a9e4d | A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 51392ba | He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. | Sun Tzu | ||
| f172b07 | I wanted to live among books. | books | Alberto Manguel | |
| 29ee0b0 | You're alive!" Percy said to the others. "The giants said you were captured. What happened?" Leo shrugged. "Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez. You'd be amazed what you can do with an Archimedes sphere, a girl who can sense stuff underground, and a weasel." "I was the weasel," Frank said glumly." | Rick Riordan | ||
| fef2123 | It's first owner...well, things didn't turn out too well for her. Her name was Helena.' Piper let that sink in. "Wait, you mean the Helena? Helena of Troy?' Annabeth nodded. "And it's just sitting in your toolshed?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 5291819 | For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together. | Rick Riordan | ||
| be87c72 | The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level. | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| adc3365 | I gotta say"--Apollo broke the silence--"these kids did okay." He cleared his throat and began to recite: " --" Um, yes, first class," Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry." | percy-jackson hermes | Rick Riordan | |
| d1c4fe6 | Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9372fc8 | I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all. | Holly Black | ||
| 9b54035 | That's the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4502aac | Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody. | unsung-heroes courage goodness character inspirational moral-courage | Justin Cronin | |
| be1d826 | Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. | wisdom inspirational opposition | Albert Einstein | |
| 7b86d12 | I don't want anyone to hold back who they are. It's not okay... it's not a good thing | team-internet inspirational lgbtqia youtube coming-out lgbt | Connor Franta | |
| ebc10fe | As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 30deefa | The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs... In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that .. | reason athanasian-creed trinitarian athanasian the-trinity trinity martyrs gullibility | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 2fcf8d3 | Okay. He had a point but it wasn't like I could tell him anything. I could see me now: Guess what? You ever watch Clash of the Titans or read any Greek fables? Well those gods are real and yeah, I'm sort of a descendant of them. Kind of like the stepchild no one wants to claim. Oh, and I hadn't even been around mortals until three years ago. Can we still be friends? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 379c25f | What the hell, man?" Dawson exploded, hands flying up. "I was on level sixty-nine of Candy Crush, you bastard. Do you know how hard that--?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0d63441 | But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects. | Rick Riordan | ||
| bc2f5ac | everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 038c798 | There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while. | depression life inspirational adversity hard-times | Nick Hornby | |
| d8100aa | If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. | lying self-deception | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 8fd5ebd | I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music. | house-rules jodi-picoult | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3baf948 | He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret. | war south sin | Charles Frazier | |
| 40a8b6b | Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may." | mrs-fitzgibbons | Diana Gabaldon | |
| b309df7 | Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... | temptation | C.S. Lewis | |
| 81d6991 | We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| dfe78c4 | The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 3cb8133 | As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 747bfd5 | Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can. | high-school | Simone Elkeles | |
| 76f8be8 | The hamster called. He wants his home back. | James Patterson | ||
| a819877 | Fang: When do I get out of here? Max: They say a week. Fang: So, like, tomorrow? Max: That's what I'm thinking. | James Patterson | ||
| 1460e36 | Kid, you'll move mountains. | mountains move | Dr. Seuss | |
| 67b014d | Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be. | life | James Frey | |
| b5ebfbe | But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" | charity | Charles Dickens | |
| 659bda1 | And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 0607a80 | It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty. | Truman Capote |