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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e490c5 | Yay!" Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug--even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it." | hugs octavian percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| a1e6307 | She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh, God." "Nay, lass. Connor." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 516fb7e | The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. | Italo Calvino | ||
| 9a835b9 | Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d3dc912 | He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. | questions | Elie Wiesel | |
| a35cde9 | With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| ac45d02 | But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day. | love reality romance | Tom Robbins | |
| 37f44da | In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extremely lifelike quality. The resulting picture is sometimes monstrous, but the setting and the whole process of the presentation sometimes happen to be so probable, and with details so subtle, unexpected, yet artistically consistent with the whole fullness of the picture, that even the dreamer himself would be unable to invent them in reality, t.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 66c8d7c | She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises. | women | Thomas Hardy | |
| 3130763 | I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 8f7bb48 | It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. " First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, THEN the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." "He might have sent her candy and flowers," Isabelle said. "We don't know." "Isabelle," said Hodge patiently, "this is the man who rained down destruction on Idris the like of which it had never seen,who set shadowhunter against Downworlder and made the streets of the Glass City run with blood." "Th.. | hodge isabella jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6a33641 | Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can't believe you two. Why? What's wrong with bedrooms? And pivacy? | isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6f88f5a | You on your way out?" Jace nodded. "Dont want to overstay our welcome." "What welcome?" Magnus asked. "I'd say is was a pleasure to meet you, but it wasn't. Not that you aren't all fairly charming, and as for you-" He dropped a glittery wink at Alec, who looked astounded. "Call me?" -Magnus & Jace, pg.243-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 5fcab5c | I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you." | clary-fray isabelle-lightwood mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| be9a8be | Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 6a3e1b5 | If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone | fate ka love roland stephen-king susan susan-delgado wind wizard-and-glass | Stephen King | |
| a339e8a | Don't be an asshole" Rhage summed up the regurgitation with two words: "Kettle.Black." Fucking hell. "Did you guys plan that out?" "Yeah and if you don't fight us"- Hollywood bit down on the grape Tootsie Pop-"we'll do it again- only with the dance moves this time" "Spare me." "Fine.Unless you agree to home it,we WILL rock the dance moves." To prove the point ,the moron linked his palms behind his head and started doing something obscene wi.. | humor tohr | J.R. Ward | |
| 92580c7 | He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said." | ignorance inspirational | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 47c52fa | Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. | humor inspirational writing | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 6cc6ca8 | Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion. | Georges Bataille | ||
| ca47c44 | I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar (...) What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being .. | the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| c8a2c6a | Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate. | Zelda Fitzgerald | ||
| 009389c | What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know. | Veronica Roth | ||
| d67dda2 | My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I'll lay you down, I'll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a crown. For you shall be my lady love, and I shall be your lord. I'll always keep you warm and safe, and guard you with my sword. And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed for me. I'll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my f.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8dd0b81 | Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 0a42a31 | Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. | music youth | Rob Sheffield | |
| 190944e | A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7fd66bc | And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it. | Holly Black | ||
| bb15b98 | Yet he who reigns within himself, and rule | inspirational | John Milton | |
| cf103e2 | Pressure makes diamonds | inspirational pressure | George S. Patton Jr. | |
| 57fe8c5 | Sometimes it comes down to a choice," Magnus said. "Between saving one person and saving the whole world. I've seen it happen, and I'm selfish enough to want the person who loves me to choose me. But Nephilim wil always choose the world. I look at Alec and I feel like Lucifer in Paradise Lost. 'Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.' He meant it in the classical sense. 'Awful' as in inspiring awe. And awe is well and good,.. | inspirational love malec | Cassandra Clare | |
| b0a97c4 | Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. | christian christian-life inspirational religion | Jim Elliot | |
| 4554196 | In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few | inspirational philosophy zen | Shunryu Suzuki | |
| 2cd4bdd | Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now. | inspirational life | Claudia Gray | |
| fc8e3f3 | I'd rather welcome change than cling to the past. | inspirational | Robert T. Kiyosaki | |
| 7778f5a | There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves | inspirational women | Margaret Mead | |
| 2a9d78f | A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. | books language life reading words | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 604da6a | To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds. | bell hooks | ||
| e1196a4 | We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 795feab | The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight. | explanations knowledge seeing | John Berger | |
| afffc40 | I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the fairy's rubber breasts, the travelling clock which always t.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 471da26 | Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9a5121e | Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| bad0cea | Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see. | Libba Bray |