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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
35c0b95 | We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first. | Ilona Andrews | ||
c8a9df3 | Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live | yes | E.E. Cummings | |
dca206b | It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers | Terry Pratchett | ||
02a3dce | That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay. | Rachel Caine | ||
f371922 | Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
7aea9d6 | So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry | travel life love awakening | Jack Kerouac | |
53110f3 | Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale, Carpenter, bring out your hammers and nails. Hammers and nails, hammers and nails, Build me a boat to go chasing the whales. Chasing the whales, sailing the blue Find me a captain and sign me a crew. | Shel Silverstein | ||
baed2ff | This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so? | Thomas Hardy | ||
0ae0ae0 | Fucking was how babies were made. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
73eb729 | I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, are in line with that goal. Most people just want to feel they belong somewhere, want to be loved, and want to feel they're important to someone. If you really examine all the wrongheaded and messed-up things they do, they can most often be traced back to that basic desire. The abusers, the addicted, the cruel and unpleasant, the manipulators.. | sadness life-lessons | Lisa Unger | |
5d9a1f7 | The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. | Oscar Wilde | ||
3606d5f | You didn't have to come after me." "Yes, I did," he said. "You're far too inexperienced to protect yourself in a hostile situation without me." "That's sweet. Maybe I'll forgive you." "Forgive me? Fro what?" "Fro telling me to shut up." | Cassandra Clare | ||
075fc68 | Then why are you here?" Emma demanded. "Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don't date trees." "I am not a tree." Iarlath looked angry, his bark peeling slightly." | sassiness sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
e6bdd56 | Fine." Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial." Alec flushed. "If you say so," he said. "I say so," said Magnus, and he turned to follow Isabelle out of the room." | Cassandra Clare | ||
1c0420d | He's got a great sense of humor for a guy who never says anything. | Cassandra Clare | ||
f0a2b6f | You're not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same," said Will. "I discovered that fact while investigating the symbol. I must have carried that knife through a hundred Downworld haunts, searching for someone who might recognize it. I offered a reward for information. Eventually the name of the Dark Sisters came to my ears." "Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
074f6ac | Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. | life philosophy truth wisdom inspirational excellence critics | Robert A. Heinlein | |
cb65fb0 | Invitation to Dance- It's a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. | Stephen King | ||
018423e | Tell me something,boys. Do you wear that leather to turn each other on? I mean, is it a dick thing with you all? | J.R. Ward | ||
31089e4 | In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky -- her grand old woods -- her fertile fields -- her beautiful rivers -- her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, -- when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethr.. | wrong disregard robbery slaveholding curse loathing | Frederick Douglass | |
7015da3 | On how to make boys like you: the third way is to be come something called "hot" Now Katie I would argue that there are at least two distinct definitions of hot. There is the like normal human definition which is that individual seems suitable for mating. And then theirs the weird culturally constructed definition of hot which is that individual is | John Green | ||
620c56f | A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn't have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you. | Veronica Roth | ||
577c06b | Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?' -Tris | dauntless amity candor eurdite tobias-and-tris tobias-eaton divergent tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
bff0320 | Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow." | Louis L'Amour | ||
3c45816 | Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. | life harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
57d2bb9 | Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child. | killing funny humor inspirational incentive interesting kind different | Anthony Horowitz | |
8b1bd4d | The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. | philosophy inspirational martial-arts strategy | Miyamoto Musashi | |
d587c43 | Storms make trees take deeper roots. | inspirational | Dolly Parton | |
d5dc1f5 | If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. | 1738 writing humor inspirational advice | Benjamin Franklin | |
d220e41 | I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
e28733d | KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of the Tea-Shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when he can't find a rape victim. He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your badge. The Dope Fiend fears nothing. He will attack, for no reason, with every weapon at his command-includi.. | humor | Hunter S. Thompson | |
f4a1e4a | Love is on every side, and no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you. | Rick Riordan | ||
76f115d | What are you?" She demanded. "My dad? Osiris? Are you even alive?" Dad looked at Anubis. "What did I tell you about her? Fiercer than Ammit, I said." "You didn't need to tell me that." Anubis's face was grave. "I've learned to fear that sharp tongue." Sadie looked outraged. "Excuse me?" | Rick Riordan | ||
fc1df14 | is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space. | should | Margaret Atwood | |
8c9af25 | He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age. | Robert Jordan | ||
7a83a60 | It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone. | Ian McEwan | ||
ef823a8 | But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? | Milan Kundera | ||
4d5b470 | The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood. | Haruki Murakami | ||
54dd08d | Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment. | lies men relationships women honesty love | W. Somerset Maugham | |
c44489f | Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane | Cecelia Ahern | ||
93def86 | Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood. | paganism | C.S. Lewis | |
7b5a843 | Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North! | inspirational | C.S. Lewis | |
1b7f1e7 | Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. | C.S. Lewis | ||
81bcd39 | I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be. | Sylvia Plath |