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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| af7d4ec | I'm not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn't seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| db6c8f1 | My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind. | true-love women | Charles Dickens | |
| 1b68433 | A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3d69555 | Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 755407d | In rode the Lord of the Nazgul. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgul, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 81315d2 | The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is. | poor | Howard Zinn | |
| 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. | understanding seeing intellectualism reactions | 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." -- | romance ranger | Janet Evanovich | |
| 5fda45f | Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. | snuff palahniuk parent mother father | 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 | ||
| 123d042 | Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state? | Tite Kubo | ||
| 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. | women writing inspirational intellectual-freedom | 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? | pace maturity | Henry David Thoreau | |
| b8b8363 | People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. | prejudice people truth rumor libel reputation neighbor slander | George Eliot | |
| f5637bc | Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book i.. | reading | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 4195dc5 | For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert." | Robert Greene | ||
| 7499c14 | Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. | Harper Lee | ||
| d754d8d | I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite of passage, a sacrament. It will not be wasted on some hormone-driven frenzy. This is why I wanted you to feed from me." "I will not drink it in a house, I will not drink it with a mouse. I will not drink it here or there, I will not drink it anywhere," I wheezed, hoping I was able to communicate adequate sarcasm through the crippling belly .. | hungry vampire | Molly Harper | |
| 0086b44 | There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive. | David Levithan | ||
| 5db6bf9 | What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty. | beauty | Alain de Botton | |
| 7a2464e | I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get. | loneliness poem poetry people beauty superficial-beauty bukowski appearance superficial superficiality classics self reflection beautiful mirror lonely self-esteem soul ugly classic | Charles Bukowski | |
| a8ff910 | It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. | scott-la scott-westerfeld peeps | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 224670f | The faculty to think objectively is ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of . To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference betw.. | understanding empathy reason love subjective the-art-of-loving erich-fromm objective objectivity narcissism reasoning conflict humility selfishness | Erich Fromm | |
| 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.. | zionism israeli-palestinian-conflict israel | Isaac Asimov | |
| d8fc279 | The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to c.. | robots | Isaac Asimov | |
| 3aa476b | Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul. | management humor | Kim Harrison | |
| fc34a53 | Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2666f43 | Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars.. | stars skywatcher exploration nocturnal space night-sky | Carl Sagan | |
| 39ac2ef | Not much had changed at Magnus's since the first time Jace had been there. Jace used an open rune to get through the front door and took the stairs, buzzing Magnus's apartment bell. It was safer that way because Magnus could be playing video games naked or really anything. Magnus yanked the door open, looking furious. He was wearing a black silk dressing gown, his feet were bare, his dark hair was tangled, "What are you doing here?" "My," s.. | magnus | Cassandra Clare | |
| 21fa3e1 | Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone." "It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard." | malec magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3d71512 | Clary glanced past him and asked, "Where's Magnus?" "He said it would be better if he didn't come. Apparently he and the Seelie Queen have some kind of history." Isabelle raised her eyebrows. "Not that kind of history," said Alec irritably. "Some kind of feud. Though," he added, half under his breath, "the way he got around before me, I woudn't be surprised." | isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 049f868 | It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand--a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love--then you are human." | the-infernal-devices clockwork-angel tessa-gray jem-carstairs | Cassandra Clare |