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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 090c961 | I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? | futility electricity exhaustion energy sherlock-holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 537a61e | Any woman who counts on her face is a fool. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 274ba6a | What made you fall in love with a prostitute?" "I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul." | lovers | Paulo Coelho | |
| 2efaa13 | You always wear that necklace," he said. "Is it another gift?" Though she wore gloves, he glanced at her hand - where the amethyst ring always sat - and the spark died from his eyes. "No." She covered the amulet with her hand. "I found it in my jewellery box and liked the look of it, you insufferably territorial man." | dorian throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d0cb83f | I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant. | poetry music rampant volatile | Joanne Harris | |
| ead505d | Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. | James Baldwin | ||
| f831d1e | I don't know how to be silent when my heart is speaking. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 311259d | She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast. | sex love lust lips | Margaret Mitchell | |
| f0354fc | If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." (as Marie 'Slim' Browning in )" -- | to-have-and-have-not whistling | Lauren Bacall | |
| b871304 | One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a2a5835 | They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you, I can't help smiling, knowing that you've completed me somehow. I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you'll take me in your arms again | true-love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 80e021b | Remember this also: it's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you'll get along. | Harper Lee | ||
| b245b06 | I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting. | David Levithan | ||
| c0c3a0c | Something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| c633c15 | there's nothing to discuss there's nothing to remember there's nothing to forget it's sad and it's not sad seems the most sensible thing a person can do is sit with drink in hand as the walls wave their goodbye smiles one comes through it all with a certain amount of efficiency and bravery then leaves some accept the possibility of God to help them get through others take it staight on and to these I drink tonight. | poem independence poetry death sadness god life love bukowski goodbyes help goodbye forgetting forget sad | Charles Bukowski | |
| 02dd161 | I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a811647 | Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| c67d4a6 | Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for. | historical | Lauren Willig | |
| e9f7b42 | I came to the table, pulled up a chair, and sat. "Everyone brought a pet. I feel left out." An enthusiastic howl broke the silence, and Grendel bounded through the doorway. He galloped through the steak house, skidded on the floor, smashed into my chair, and dropped a dead rat on my lap. Awesome." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3c6960f | You seem to be under the impression that I work for you and you can give me orders. Let me fix that." I hung up." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 418214e | This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8909216 | If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good help to you nevertheless And filter and fiber your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop some where waiting for you | Walt Whitman | ||
| 4b27756 | There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it. I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way.. | sensitive | Lynda Barry | |
| 9fef6af | T.J.] I pulled my arms out from underneath her body and tucked her hair behind her ears. "I love you, Anna." The surprised look on her face told me she hadn't seen that coming. "You weren't supposed to fall in love," she whispered. "Well, I did," I said, looking into her eyes. "I've been in love with you for months. I'm telling you now because I think you love me too, Anna. You just don't think you're supposed to. You'll tell me when you're.. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 3310173 | Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars | Federico García Lorca | ||
| e5fee22 | You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in the little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds, and thinking, maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds, but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like that. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0ed56f5 | You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.' 'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?' 'What's your name?' 'Enn.' 'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time? | discord three girls self | Neil Gaiman | |
| 891eb13 | The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. | religion religious-extremism | Richard Dawkins | |
| 25c53ae | As she looked, the smoke puffing out of the chimney stopped curling upward and began to take on the shape of a wavering black question mark. Sebastian laughed. "I think that means, " Clary pulled her coat closer around her. "It looks like something out of a fairy tale." "Are you cold?" Sebastian put his arm around her. Immediately the smoke curling from the chimney stopped forming itself into question marks and began puffing out in the sha.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b4aff04 | Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will. | tessa-grey the-infernal-devices clockwork-prince will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4993f10 | If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know," Simon was getting fed up. "Look, did you actually ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I'm something in a petrie dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." | jace-wayland simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6bdeb01 | The greatest fear of Jonathan is the | valentine-morgenstern | Cassandra Clare | |
| ec140f5 | Gracious, that's a lot of bosom you're showing," Magnus went on blithely, gesturing toward Tessa with the burning tip of his cigar. " , as they say in French," he added, miming a vast terrace jutting out from his chest. "Especially apt, as we are now, in fact, on a balcony." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d1abc42 | Belatedly, she realized something else. "Do you... have anything?" He didn't seem to have recovered from her last comment. "But do you mean--wait, do I have what?" She slitted her eyes at him. "Something important." "Like what? The phone number for the White House?" A moment later, under her withering glare, realization dawned. "Oh." His was the expression of someone who has run out of gas in the middle of the desert, miles from help. "I..... | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c947be8 | He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt h.. | family life love alexander-lightwood shadowhunter malec magnus-bane infernal-devices mortal-instruments cassandra-clare | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1852c07 | When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 16b5bd6 | Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love? | Stephen King | ||
| 4c299a0 | Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back. | Stephen King | ||
| 0465923 | If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. | Stephen King | ||
| 4e0646e | I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 9af1010 | When everything was beautiful and nothing hurt... | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 9b88b2d | All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| e21defa | The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards." | paper-towns | John Green | |
| e621e72 | I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. | Stephen Chbosky |