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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1191264 | The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 077118a | Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? | people friendship love philosophy possibility important thought | Haruki Murakami | |
| 12117df | Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before. | silly | Shel Silverstein | |
| 204090d | Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism heart life love inspirational do doing | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 432204b | We need never be ashamed of our tears. | sorrow tears shame | Charles Dickens | |
| 3992d8c | Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). | sleep polygamy monogamy | Milan Kundera | |
| 31f4cad | When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't. | self-awareness self-love self-confidence self-esteem | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4acacb5 | You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8b6cac0 | The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. | people freedom sacrifice love caring discipline | David Foster Wallace | |
| d747d64 | It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. | time love waiting | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| bff1bb8 | There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled | inspirational | Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi | |
| 7e2e108 | I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 769f618 | People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little. | people viewpoint | James Hilton | |
| 68b1434 | I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 0c69ccf | Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool. | humor rosalie dawn jacob mirror | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 2011a76 | I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. I will love you as a battlefield loves young men and as peppermints love your allergies, and I will love you as the banana peel loves the shoe of a man who was just struck by a shingle .. | Lemony Snicket | ||
| 0dad545 | I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. | love secrets | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 4e8085e | Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. | Amy Tan | ||
| 2af94fb | It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, lo.. | love lost-love | Edgar Allen Poe | |
| f273798 | Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. | Toni Morrison | ||
| dedd3af | We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2a89362 | Joy is the best makeup. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b3140af | Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason. | exercise bravery courage memories depression future reason living strength life love medication loved-ones eating food | Andrew Solomon | |
| 6c0bab0 | No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?" | humor interrogation police | Terry Pratchett | |
| e901bb3 | When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. | deeds | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3748c90 | Reparations," said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. "Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees." "What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inquired Jessamine." | jessamine-lovelace jem-carstairs will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 88c0253 | You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 55fc75c | It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense. | humor jace-lightwood sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9e3e075 | Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. | faith god love inspirational | Joni Eareckson Tada | |
| cc708de | I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| bd9e5fe | Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 0de09e6 | They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. | sexual intimacy | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| e9b21ec | I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.) | humor diagnosis john-green | John Green | |
| 2cb9da7 | When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e56c382 | Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. | daytime day window | Edith Wharton | |
| 83519c9 | She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 359065c | It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. | little-things | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 11bf451 | By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. | lying passion love cynicism | Dorothy Parker | |
| a77753d | And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders. | humor love clary-and-jace jace-and-clary jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6b516fd | Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? | yearning unrequited-love | James Patterson | |
| 0dc6be6 | How about a kiss, ?" He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments longer before climbing out and handing her the book. His pants clung to him, and he did not stop walking. In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them." | Markus Zusak | ||
| f43014d | Reader, I married him. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 94a5176 | You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the .. | love inspirational roses caring uniqueness | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| c03cdef | Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are." The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes. "Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow. "Fuck you," said the raven." | poe humor nevermore parody raven | Neil Gaiman |