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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 675d912 | I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. but you know that. You know. Don't you?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 7dc469b | Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --" "He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother." | city-of-ashes isabelle-lightwood loyalty the-mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4b8a73f | Are you trying to get run over by a cab?" "Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 012cb45 | He's not warlock. | cassandra-clare mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| b549d69 | It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. | monster | Mary Shelley | |
| 092c38b | I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8995a4f | Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly. | Christopher Pike | ||
| d00e6a0 | No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| d0993fe | The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head. | reality thoughts | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| b47c7b4 | How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. | cat-s cradle kurt vonnegut | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| e37df5b | I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. | reading writing | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 543fa3d | Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| e354745 | And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with. | words-have-power | John Green | |
| 19ae51a | That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father or Fats or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that being alive is a crock of shit. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| a9d6216 | Usually, when we think of power, we think of external power. And we think of powerful people as those who have made it in the world. A powerful woman isn't necessarily someone who has money, but we think of her as someone with a boldness or a spark that makes her manifest in a dramatic way. When we think of a powerful man, we think of his ability to manifest abundance, usually money, in the world. Most people say that a powerful woman does .. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 436d67b | it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name. | zealots | John Irving | |
| c54396c | Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| c482ebb | I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care. | Veronica Roth | ||
| d36ca2e | My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless t.. | storytelling | Diane Setterfield | |
| dd2e28d | The children came to a perfume shop. In the show window was a large jar of freckle salve, and beside the jar was a sign, which read: DO YOU SUFFER FROM FRECKLES? 'What does the sign say?' ask Pippi. She couldn't read very well because she didn't want to go to school as other children did. 'It says, "Do you suffer from freckles?"' said Annika. 'Does it indeed?' said Pippi thoughtfully. 'Well, a civil question deserves a civil answer. Let's g.. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 98a4102 | We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter. . . Recording the details of our lives is a stance agai.. | inspiration writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 5a98c6b | When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself. | inspirational loss | Patrick Swayze | |
| d7e0bba | Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life's secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose- the creation and the expression of WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Decide who you are- who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that | inspirational | Neale Donald Walsch | |
| e0fbded | Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful. | inspirational motivational success | Jordan Belfort | |
| f6b3da0 | The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything. | hard-work inspirational | Vince Lombardi | |
| 6b9515f | Listen, you impossible creature," he said, "I'm a century and more older than--" "Oh, be quiet," I said impatiently." | sarkan | Naomi Novik | |
| 9448c3c | I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us. | William Gibson | ||
| 54af6b7 | The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0284e61 | Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream. | inspirational intellectual-freedom women writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| 1e69520 | Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life's secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose- the creation and the expression of WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Decide who you are- who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| d44811a | We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6bbacce | If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? | maturity pace | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 647751c | To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. | intellectualism reactions seeing understanding | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| f13674d | Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4b43932 | The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| c735e7d | Time is Galleons, little brother. | time weasley-twins | J.K. Rowling | |
| de2a221 | I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 17aade4 | She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a7b73b2 | I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 256740d | What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 96ee0e9 | She'll be back," Ranger said. "But not tonight." [Stephanie] "How'd you get her to leave?" "Told her I was gonna spend the next twelve hours ruining you for all other men, and so she might as well go home." I could feel the heat rush to my face. Ranger gave me the wolf smile. "I lied about it being tonight," he said." -- | ranger romance | Janet Evanovich | |
| 5fda45f | Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. | father mother palahniuk parent snuff | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| cd7b9b3 | No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| da639b1 | I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don't travel. I really don't, and if I did, I probably wouldn't visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor for.. | israel israeli-palestinian-conflict zionism | Isaac Asimov |