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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0f27b73 | Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2045ef1 | I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. | philosophy taggart objectivism | Ayn Rand | |
| 5877150 | I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| c2b2c12 | I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin .. | Billy Collins | ||
| 92630f4 | Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. | evolution decisions | Jared Diamond | |
| 1c2714f | The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a m.. | Carl Gustav Jung | ||
| 00ff25c | Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4182d76 | Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. | Herman Melville | ||
| 16c52af | I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| dd93c0f | It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy. | E. M. Forster | ||
| a158597 | He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved acro.. | lily-potter letter | J.K. Rowling | |
| fd30b3f | Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| efa8b8b | It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| a63bcf0 | I met those laughing, fierce hazel eyes. Cassian's smile softened. "Hello, Feyre." My throat tightened to the point of pain, and I threw my arms around his neck, embracing him tightly. "I missed you, too," Cassian murmured, squeezing me." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f302382 | he thought again. "I could hate her for what she did to me." "Because of one unsuccessful beheading?" She tapped her claw to her chin. "Wow. I never thought you were such a pussy. I'm rethinking our friendship." | lothaire nix kresley-cole | Kresley Cole | |
| 1da6da3 | So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. | morning wind sky sea | Virginia Woolf | |
| 70f681c | I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway. | Anne Frank | ||
| e96c5cc | Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. | sorrow witch remorse guilt | Gregory Maguire | |
| f592be1 | It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't .. | scarlet-letter symbolism | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| f75db62 | Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore | youth | James Baldwin | |
| e747371 | Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| a2f7a69 | It's life that matters, nothing but life--the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. | discovery hippolyte detachment clinging | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| cf07750 | I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember? | humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 6d0cce7 | Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| a30e8a0 | My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7dfe02a | They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 702370c | Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. | reconstruction | Margaret Mitchell | |
| c5c07d5 | To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 469f9c0 | Kaede: I know this, ungrateful dog. In order to find the sacred jewel shards, Kagome's spirtual power is essential. Yet ye made her upset with your words an sent her running home InuYasha: That was her idea! she chose to go home! She said: "I'm going home! You jerk!" | kaede inuyasha kagome manga | Rumiko Takahashi | |
| fc94a69 | invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, don't swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and stay out of the clutches of mediocrity. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you. reinvigorate yourself and accept what is but only on the terms that you have invented and reinvented. be self-taught. and reinvent your life because you must; it is .. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 47cdd17 | Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town the impossibility of being human Burroughs killing his wife with a gun Mailer stabbing his the impossibility of being human Maupassant going mad in a rowboat Dostoevsky lined up ag.. | mad truth beatiful champions cowards bukowski glory creatures dog soul | Charles Bukowski | |
| 747c721 | Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me." | romance | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 661eaee | Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 7eaf011 | Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| ae8a54a | You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road. | life tuck-everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | |
| 5b12a89 | If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things,and then they would replace me and forget I was ever there. You would stay with me. You would take care of me, because you love me. I love you too, Kate. If you ever became hurt, I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want'there' to be. -Curran to Kate | love magic-slays ilona-andrews curran kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 14ec3d2 | How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity. | present future past | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| d8d82ee | Your very flesh shall be a great poem... | Walt Whitman | ||
| 8e64c26 | I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. | inspiration fantasy-genre self-deprication popularity ideas | Michael Moorcock | |
| e75824c | Zoey~ 'Listen to me, whinning about money and a scarf. Ah, hell! I'm starting to sound like Aphrodite.' Stark~ 'If you turn into Aprodite I'm going to stab myself.' Zoey~ 'If I turn into Aprodite, stab me first.' Stark~ 'Deal.' Zoey~ 'Deal. | zoey stark | P.C. Cast &Kristin Cast | |
| 54d4deb | As the joke goes, you don't have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away. | Kim Harrison | ||
| c3a4bfb | I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, . No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore; no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance; no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinships--gone. She went o.. | family anonymity born-again clean-slate nabokov signs-and-symbols extinction nazis genocide rwanda rwandan-genocide germans misery short-stories survivors | Christopher Hitchens | |
| da6e76f | We forget very easily what gives us pain. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8ffdff4 | It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct. | science | Michio Kaku |