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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| d35a9bc | What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 4323b93 | I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly. | Harper Lee | ||
| 394f866 | It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. | david-levithan desire every-day wants | David Levithan | |
| 65da4ee | I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 25034b7 | I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you. | Thomas Harris | ||
| d676413 | Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. | literature untold-stories | Colum McCann | |
| a059427 | Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 77954c7 | Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9772033 | Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? | Tom Stoppard | ||
| a18f8ba | The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 1e9a6fb | If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion" | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 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 .. | athanasian athanasian-creed gullibility martyrs reason the-trinity trinitarian trinity | 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. | adversity depression hard-times inspirational life | 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. | sin south war | 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 | |
| 1460e36 | Kid, you'll move mountains. | mountains move | Dr. Seuss | |
| 67e0443 | WE do try to eat," Raoul called back to her [Kel]. I go all faint if I don't get fed regularly. Only think of the disgrace to the King's Own if I fell from the saddle." "But there was that time in Fanwood," a voice behind them said. "That wedding in Tameran," added the blonde Sergeant Osbern, riding a horse-length behind Kel. "Don't forget when what's-his-name, with the army, retired," yelled a third. "Silence, insubordinate curs!" cried Ra.. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 002647e | She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 264aa3d | Stay Gold | S.E. Hinton | ||
| d0cac76 | The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite. | beauty-in-nature science wonder | Richard Dawkins | |
| 4b04e0e | I do not walk like a duck. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 87135d7 | He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it. | vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| 19a142c | Sometimes when she looks at him that way he finds himself almost blushing; a feeling so strange he almost doesn't recognize it. Jace Wayland doesn't blush. | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| d55bffb | For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle wh.. | inspirational life | Stephen King | |
| 55a413f | Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed? | Stephen King | ||
| 1ec3cd4 | It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. | Stephen King | ||
| 5e2a1be | I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. | John Green | ||
| ec584e3 | She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 0c7480d | Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a4fc75d | I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. | John Irving | ||
| eb0ec46 | You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination? | names | Christopher Paolini | |
| 33313dd | Saphira to Eragon: "If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off. Eragon: I love you too. Saphira: Then I will bind you all the tighter. " | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 18c7c18 | I believe you, Sadie." "Oh really. I'm holding the bloody feather of truth, and you believe me. Well, thanks." | feather-of-truth sadie-kane | Rick Riordan | |
| b53165b | What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced.. | Alexandre Dumas |