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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 .. | individuality humanity human-condition 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | every-day david-levithan wants desire | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | wonder science beauty-in-nature | 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.. | life inspirational | 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 |