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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a5dac73 | When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height an.. | marriage | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 6968a59 | Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen. | life open possibilities | George Saunders | |
| f7db70f | Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 0d7d697 | So what was that all about?" "I think," Jace said, "that she asked if she could touch my mango." "She that?" Jace shrugged. "Yeah, then she gave me her number." | jace-lightwood simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7194734 | Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. | courage inspirational | Victor Hugo | |
| 7e1012d | Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals." "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned. "Hey!" I protested." | banter grover-underwood percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| a6a17c2 | Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little pi.. | growing-up inspirational life | Betty Smith | |
| 996ee04 | People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. | Harper Lee | ||
| d9eb69b | No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. | bravery courage dauntless experience life training | Veronica Roth | |
| b7f0fdb | If you care about something you have to protect it - If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. | John Irving | ||
| 45b2c6b | The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. | love | Tom Robbins | |
| c4e75e6 | Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! | haunting heathcliff love malediction restlessness | Emily Brontë | |
| 0c551e1 | Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? | feelings | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 455987c | We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3035308 | I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d25a1a2 | Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, an.. | ecstasy fulfillment joy love men passion sensuality sexuality women | Anaïs Nin | |
| 03bcfe3 | According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1c8e5bf | Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little pi.. | inspirational life | Betty Smith | |
| 48dad66 | I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. | Albert Camus | ||
| e1a9786 | No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 155925d | You might as well answer the door, my child | inspirational | Lucille Clifton | |
| 9386531 | We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. | John Green | ||
| 44c8581 | Even the Inquisitor's eyebrows shot up when Magnus strode through the gate. The High Warlock was wearing black leather pants, a belt with a buckle in the shape of a jeweled , and a cobalt-blue Prussian military jacket open over a white lace shirt. He shimmered with layers of glitter. His gaze rested for a moment on Alec's face with amusement and a hint of something else before moving on to Jace, prone on the ground. "Is he dead?" he inquir.. | imogen-herondale magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| acf1888 | I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular." | individuals love mankind | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e0bf12e | I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get. | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | ||
| 231bd6e | I think I deserve something beautiful. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a431db8 | She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4a23a66 | I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored | humor | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7a38096 | But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1adc072 | I have not the pleasure of understanding you. | Jane Austen | ||
| d87db97 | As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. | dignity double-standards empowerment feminism gender hypocrisy intelligence men misogyny self-determination social-norms stereotypes thought women | Virginia Woolf | |
| 45e2d87 | It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the op.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| e7de926 | In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. | change character empowerment love men nature pleasing self-discovery self-esteem self-respect truthfulness wisdom women youth | Dorothy Parker | |
| ff8bae3 | Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d6247b4 | People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. | humor memory recall | Christopher Paolini | |
| af2c424 | When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again. | action do-the-right-thing doing inner-peace inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic peace positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking serenity | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 14535e9 | Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 18aba0d | Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. | moon sense-of-wonder stars | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 792fe7c | My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?" He wandered toward the window, pausing to examine the stacks of books on her bedside table, and then the bed itself. He waved a hand at the ropes. "Do you often sleep tied to the bed?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f63da9d | Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. | life | Haruki Murakami | |
| ad8633d | In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a5154d1 | At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 06717ca | We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left. | individuality inspirational flaws | Sarah Vowell | |
| 859432f | The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |