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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. | tobias tris | 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." | hermes percy-jackson | 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. | character courage goodness inspirational moral-courage unsung-heroes | 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. | inspirational opposition wisdom | Albert Einstein | |
| 7b86d12 | I don't want anyone to hold back who they are. It's not okay... it's not a good thing | coming-out inspirational lgbt lgbtqia team-internet youtube | Connor Franta | |
| fa40723 | You know that feeling at the end of the day, when the anxiety of that-which-I-must-do falls away and, for maybe the first time that day, you see, with some clarity, the people you love and the ways you have, during that day, slightly ignored them, turned away from them to get back to what you were doing, blurted out some mildly hurtful thing, projected, instead of the deep love you really feel, a surge of defensiveness or self-protection or.. | George Saunders | ||
| eacfb3e | Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f26ac99 | If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as .. | human-condition humanity individuality uniqueness | Oliver Sacks | |
| 46cb85d | There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3bea16d | He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare. | eating-disorders | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| ac805f9 | It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| de2a7a2 | Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5947c20 | At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 68eac16 | Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. ... The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big even.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 17b459d | I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a7448b8 | Love is the whole and more than all. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| c34f98d | Faster!" Shane yelled. Eve hit the gas hard, and whipped around a slower-moving van. The firing ceased, at least for now. "You see why I didn't want you to stop?" "Okay, your father is officially !" Eve yelled. "Oh my God, look at my car!" | morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| c422939 | Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues. | William Shakespeare | ||
| abb106e | There's small choice in rotten apples. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 35d3199 | Now I will believe that there are unicorns... | William Shakespeare | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |