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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 530c4c2 | They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 74eb2c4 | We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7d37ed3 | If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done i.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| e649efb | Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| b3f8133 | You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you." | heroes | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 8bb48e8 | My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. | writing sadness mathematics | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 923cafc | He has eyes so expressive they give a hint to more than what he portrays. He's dedicated to his friends, family, and even his motorcyle. He touched me as if I were made of glass. He kissed me as if he'd savor it for the rest of his life. | chapter-33 perfect-chemistry | Simone Elkeles | |
| 26ef584 | So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have? Screw it. Let the fates decide. I wish for the thing that is best for me. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 43314de | Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like of music. | music | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 4ad7266 | The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 8d2df68 | Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. | life love louisa | Louisa May Alcott | |
| d8f7490 | Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us. | humor life humiliation | Paul Murray | |
| 02df767 | People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around. | psychology | Douglas Adams | |
| 5735de7 | One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. | inscription | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 407c8f4 | There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. | looking | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 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. | seeing explanations knowledge | 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 | ||
| 8b3eae8 | When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7a7c7cd | My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6c48227 | Tell me that even if I lead us all to ruin, we'll burn in hell together.' 'We're not going to hell, Aelin,' he said. 'But wherever we go, we'll go together. | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 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. | words reading books life language | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 604da6a | To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds. | bell hooks | ||
| 569ffb1 | Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other." | humor birthmarks foaly complex atlantis orion | Eoin Colfer | |
| ac8102d | He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy. he announced. All is shit. | the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 2b65e18 | Don't judge a book by its cover | cover judge mystery | George Eliot | |
| a273cb3 | You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. (Matthew 5:14, The Message) | light god life | Anonymous | |
| 9d89094 | Despise The Free Lunch | Robert Greene | ||
| 072d7f8 | Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 7c60a04 | The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together. | Hannah Arendt | ||
| f4adcb8 | If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions. | lovers memories | David Levithan | |
| 6768637 | Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| d605833 | I think life should be more like TV. I think all of life's problems ought to be solved in 30 minutes with simple homilies, don't you? I think weight and oral hygiene ought to be our biggest concerns. I think we should all have powerful, high-paying jobs, and everyone should drive fancy sports cars. All our desires should be instantly gratified. Women should always wear tight clothing, and men should carry powerful handguns. Life overall sho.. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 7ad931d | Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 4eaf5ff | I am not a fool. I am wise. I will run from my fear, I will outdistance my fear, then I will hide from my fear, I will wait for my fear, I will let my fear run past me, then I will follow my fear, I will track my fear until I can approach my fear in complete silence, then I will strike at my fear, I will charge my fear, I will grab hold of my fear, I will sink my fingers into my fear, then I will bite my fear, I will tear the throat of my f.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 7c26e84 | The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. | resolutions soul starting-over | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 3b82d3a | Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 28f6ee4 | colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy o.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 6868999 | She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds away. Somehow she knew that you didn't get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5b31811 | You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-" | city-of-ashes the-mortal-instruments isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| d6087ab | In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when she woke up screaming for Will, he came and put his arms around her, smelling of turpentine. "The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after." | clockwork-princess tessa-gray magnus-bane will-herondale | Cassandra Clare |