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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 the-mortal-instruments isabelle-lightwood loyalty | 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. | mortal-instruments cassandra-clare | 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. | thoughts reality | 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.. | writing inspiration | 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. | loss inspirational | 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. | motivational success inspirational | 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. | inspirational hard-work | Vince Lombardi | |
| 20827b1 | That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer feel it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 65d3dd8 | He faced us. "You hear that, guys? A batch of cookies is depending on me. If you get me killed on the way to camp, I am going be ticked off." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0c9b8a9 | The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 2131370 | Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same shore before the same mighty ocean. The ocean of love. There it is - in perpetuum. As much in a broken blossom, the sound of a waterfall, the swoop of a carrion bird as in the thunderous artillery of the prophet. | Henry Miller | ||
| ff0871a | Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. | paper | Dodie Smith | |
| ab1ab93 | Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. | reading philosophy-of-life | Italo Calvino | |
| b741e61 | What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 58a98dc | I meant it, Claire,' he said quietly. 'My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we go next. To France, to Italy, even back to Scotland. My heart has been yours since first I saw ye, and you've held my soul and body between your two hands here, and kept them safe. We shall go as ye say. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5169902 | Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed! | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ca03851 | That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price. | the-summoning | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 61ef03c | Screw caution," Tori said. "I'm outta here." We looked at her. "Well, I am. As long as someone comes with me." We kept looking at her. She sighed. "Fine, but when everything goes to hell, just remember, I get to blame you guys, because I wanted to leave right away." | kelley chloe tori reckoning derek | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 3922922 | For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 10c3253 | The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 19b8726 | But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were! | love balcony-scene romeo juliet plays romeo-and-juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| c343489 | The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2a23ec4 | There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5799c74 | Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. | time work whine complain | Joan Didion | |
| 016d166 | After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about try.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c6bc12c | We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. | Arthur Golden |