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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e6cd84 | Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another. | place | Anne Michaels | |
| 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 | ||
| 63639a7 | You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8cc8ddc | Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe the pieces." [...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking." | philosophy | David Levithan | |
| 3711064 | People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be. | success | Charles Bukowski | |
| 9f6fa4d | It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| a50ad5f | With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 510b318 | Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 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 jace isabella | 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 love ka susan susan-delgado wizard-and-glass roland stephen-king wind | 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." | inspirational ignorance | 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. | writing humor inspirational | 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. | youth music | 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,.. | love inspirational malec | Cassandra Clare | |
| b0a97c4 | Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. | religion inspirational christian-life christian | Jim Elliot | |
| 4554196 | In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few | philosophy inspirational 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. | life inspirational | 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 | women inspirational | Margaret Mead | |
| 88b6d5d | A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ffd945a | The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 15fac0f | We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time. When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not p.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| ab1fb42 | Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 9b30fd7 | Cupping my cheeks, he exhaled a soft groan, and his lips scorched mine as he deepened the kiss until we both were breathless from its intensity. Daemon moved as close as he could with the chair between us. Gripping his arms, I held onto him, wanting him closer. The chair prevented all but our lips and hands from touching. Frustrating. , I ordered restlessly. It trembled under my foot, and then the heavy oak chair slid out from under me, d.. | onyx jennifer-l-armentrout lux katy-and-daemon katy-swartz | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| a422725 | We started this together, Leo. Seems only right you come along. You find us a ride, you're in." "Yes!" Leo pumped his fist. * * * * * Jason gazed up at the dragon and shook his head in amazement. "Leo, what have you done?" "Found a ride!" Leo beamed. "You said I could go on the quest if I got you a ride. Well, I got you a class-A metallic flying bad boy! Festus can take us anywhere!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| fdc5dd5 | We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it. | misfortune | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 4496845 | I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away. | Haruki Murakami |