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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ea34dda | It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 79a6aba | Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. | quotes-for-women womens-inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspirational fame popularity | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 3b49d78 | Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore. | happy life love inspirational amazing | Chad Sugg | |
| 6224c3c | Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they're not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse. | Michael Crichton | ||
| e46aec7 | Daemon always looks hot!!! Stretching into the aisle, I went to drop the note back on Carissa's desk. Before it could leave my fingertips, it was snatched from my hand. Son of a donkey butt! My mouth dropped open and my cheeks burned. Twisting around in my seat, I glared at Daemon. He held the note close to his chest and grinned. "Passing notes is bad," he murmured." -- | onyx | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| ed38524 | Then he leaned forward and rested his cheek against mine. Hot tingles spread through me as his lips moved against my ear. "You should tell me to stop." I didn't say a word." | alex | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| fc0fdc2 | A smell of burned hair and cotton wafted into the air as I spun toward my desk. There was a low whine from the desk and then smoke billowed out of my closed laptop. I gaped. My precious, perfectly brand new laptop I cherished like one would a small child. Son of a mother... Friend or not, it was so on | humour book-nerd laptop | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 37c8fb5 | As his raft skimmed over the water, taking him back to the mortal world, he understood a line from the Prophecy better- . | love prophecy leo-valdez oath | Rick Riordan | |
| 4cd4823 | You know how teachers tell you the magic word is 'please'? That's not true. The magic word is 'puke'. It will get you out of class faster than anything else. | puke percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| a13168d | The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom... that is very hard indeed." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| f65a7ce | Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| e81e8aa | All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time. | possibility | John O'Donohue | |
| 73fd5b4 | In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. | weep laugh | Robert Jordan | |
| 13835ea | I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e8e8976 | For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't com.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 00c7bc7 | Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized... | motherhood parenting children | Jodi Picoult | |
| cec7378 | I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 4e3ce1d | There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 9ebf53b | They call her my singer--because her blood sings for me. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 3fc9f98 | The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches. | Daniel Kahneman | ||
| 4e58ae5 | Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong. | James Patterson | ||
| 80fa505 | I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it. | Alice Sebold | ||
| ed920e0 | Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| de44ead | We make destiny with every turn, every choice. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8fe6edc | You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| fa29cb9 | Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance." | mines-of-moria pippin | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 41893ac | Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ec4a46a | Jealous?...Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3b81d3a | You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4a26505 | Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create o.. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 38c9ddb | When she looked up at him, it was suddenly easy for her to imagine that her fears were pointless. That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 34904af | I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can. | Libba Bray | ||
| 31f2e56 | Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness? | Graham Greene | ||
| 5b2185a | If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp. | universe science life biology humans | Bill Bryson | |
| 9006d86 | But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d853d62 | If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 8ee8d4b | A snap of Rhys's fingers, and my nightclothes--and some flimsy underthings--appeared on the bed. "I couldn't decide which scrap of lace I wanted you to wear, so I brought you a few to choose from." "Pig," I barked" | funny rhysand flirting | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2221145 | I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. | love | Virginia Woolf | |
| eaaac27 | He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?'... She couldn't say not to Liir. She started to say 'a soldier,' to make fun of his mooning affections over the guys in uniform. But realizing even as she said it that he would be hurt, she caught herself halfway, and in the end what came out of her mouth surprised them both. She said, 'A .. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5b86139 | Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 8354960 | I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| ba4c55e | But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. | hope fulfillment despair | George Eliot | |
| a2cbbed | Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality... But I had gradually come by this time, i.e., 1836 to 1839, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow at sign, &c., &c., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a r.. | history doubt damnable divine-revelation sacred-books tyrant new-testament hindu orthodox old-testament charles-darwin interpretation doctrine hinduism autobiography skepticism miracles belief evidence metaphors resurrection punishment revelation atheism hell | Charles Darwin | |
| d2258f1 | The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that whit.. | inspirational | Harper Lee |