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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 91d17f1 | There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul." Ely in Rachel Cohn and David Levithan" | Rachel Cohn | ||
| cdd1a6a | Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. | Jack Kerouac "The Dharma Bums" | ||
| 5af6e15 | I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) | humor husbands intelligence intelligent marriage matrimony women | Elizabeth Peters | |
| a5a72a1 | Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 3b4e70b | You try getting through the Hollows traffic with a stoned redhead hanging out the window shouting, 'I'm king of the world!' ~Lee | Kim Harrison | ||
| 4cf3c66 | Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.... | Rick Warren | ||
| 83b57e1 | You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy .. | Charles Dickens | ||
| c33d93c | from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan" | attitude complete dune knife | Frank Herbert | |
| 925fdae | love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. | love marriage quiver relationships share | Kahlil Gibran | |
| e0f5c63 | If it gets too bad, go. I'll understand." I won't." | derek | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 3595aac | Whatever can die is beautiful -- more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me? | death | Peter S. Beagle | |
| b3ff54b | It was not going to be the end of the world. Just the end of the Cullens. The end of Edward, the end of me. I preferred it that way - the last part anyway. I would not live without Edward again; if he was leaving this world, then I would be right behind him. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 4401d78 | Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world. | David Levithan | ||
| 1859c38 | There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book. | candy cozy reading | Betty MacDonald | |
| 01991f0 | A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life. | Emily Giffin | ||
| eb25acf | In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. | dallben | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 18159dc | The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. | human-nature life | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 8b753be | Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized. | wisdom women | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 7809186 | Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a gir.. | feminism feminism-woman-submission | Sylvia Plath | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | honesty lies love men relationships women | 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 | ||
| 4ee9150 | It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren't connected, aren't working together harmoniously, well, you're just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you're walking, you may think you're running a damn marathon, but you're only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained. | Tom Robbins | ||
| d03c33a | I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. | friendship heartbreak love | Graham Greene | |
| 051d5a2 | Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep. | youth | S. E. Hinton | |
| f1cf21f | You want sensitive and understanding, stick with the therapist.You want great, headbanging sex, get off the fucking phone and come with me. | seduction | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 6aeae96 | she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. | inspirational | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0406ba5 | It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor." | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 251cf20 | He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-' 'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own. | self-belief thoughtful | Toni Morrison | |
| 500ebbc | How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. | Og Mandino | ||
| 93fda35 | That night at the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door, a thick carpet on the floor of the room, outside the windows the rain falling and in the room light and pleasant and cheerful, then the light out and it exciting with smooth sheets and the bed comfortable, feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other th.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 28ef260 | People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. | body breakfast-of-champions chemicals human kurt-vonnegut life people ugly | Kurt Vonnegut |