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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. | fame inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living popularity quotes-for-women womens-inspirational | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 3b49d78 | Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore. | amazing happy inspirational life love | Chad Sugg | |
| 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 | ||
| e196c29 | Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? | words-to-live-by | Terry Pratchett | |
| 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. | biology humans life science universe | 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" | flirting funny rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 874ae4b | Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just to take a nice silly walk in Central Park with. Somebody who wouldn't judge another for the prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| ad10e4a | The beauty of things must be that they end. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 0ed01a3 | Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes. | Richard Bach | ||
| 9a558b7 | Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. | richard-bach | Richard Bach | |
| 4d7ff0b | Here's a newsflash from the only High Preistess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. And believe me, I know dead. I've been there, done that, and got the frickin' T-shirt." - Stevie Rae" | P.C. Cast | ||
| 0c582c4 | Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen." | love reasons-why | Annette Curtis Klause | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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.. | atheism autobiography belief charles-darwin damnable divine-revelation doctrine doubt evidence hell hindu hinduism history interpretation metaphors miracles new-testament old-testament orthodox punishment resurrection revelation sacred-books skepticism tyrant | 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 | |
| 16b58ef | The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. | faith levithan precarious word | David Levithan | |
| fc095b7 | Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. | William Blake | ||
| e4a7c13 | When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 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. | despair fulfillment hope | George Eliot | |
| 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 |