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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 18a3ba8 | Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only twelve years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown & Williamson have promised to kill me. But I am eighty-two. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three m.. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| c0d15f4 | Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question.../ Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' / Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly." | John Green | ||
| 0f26edc | Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway | thoughts hazel-grace worry | John Green | |
| ad1818a | Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind? | romance sadness | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| b5dfd61 | A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. | lazy soul | Michel Faber | |
| 648d604 | Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0469bcd | Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. | success inspirational | John R Wooden | |
| 8278fdb | I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing -- that it was all started by a mouse. | inspirational | Walt Disney Company | |
| 78df07e | Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. | life inspirational | George Bernard Shaw | |
| a293024 | A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise. | inspirational promises | Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S | |
| 7fd8913 | We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor | earth science inspirational environmentalism conservation | Moss Cass | |
| 95b234f | Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. | heart inspirational | Albert Einstein | |
| 6e1e98b | Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. | inspirational | Helen Keller | |
| c5d8ed8 | One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. | success inspirational | Michelle Obama | |
| 02da89f | There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 036c410 | Life will find a way. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c13c503 | There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home. | home | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 2617b91 | Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four. | humorous skinny | Nora Ephron | |
| 3a6060b | Gods, it was a messed up day when was the voice of reason. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8903e84 | Whatever you do, don't break my brother's heart. You are his world. And if you leave it, it will destroy him. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 246da3f | They would find this House of Hades. They'd take the Doors of Death. And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm long enough to snatch Percy and Annabeth out of Tartarus, then that's what he would do. Nemesis wanted him to wreak vengeance on Gaea? Leo would be happy to oblige. He was going to make Gaea sorry she had ever messed with Leo Valdez. "Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset... | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2494ed5 | Reyna marvelled at how peaceful he looked. The worry lines vanished. His face became strangely angelic...like his surname, di Angelo. She could almost believe he was a regular fourteen-year-old boy, not a son of Hades who had been pulled out of time from the 1940s and forced to endure more tragedy and danger than most demigods would in a lifetime. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 050b038 | Es natural condicion de las mujeres desdenar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece | women | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 228c5ca | It's hard to say goodbye to the place you've lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 2b1bad6 | This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a2c811b | Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart." | humor jamie-fraser | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 3d8fb27 | There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 2217114 | No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2a506c3 | Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her. | literature life philosophy the-stranger albert-camus existentialism | Albert Camus | |
| 36daf53 | A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that c.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| ad4e368 | When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 7062dc2 | The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. | William Shakespeare | ||
| ebd213d | Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt?" | James Patterson | ||
| f41aae8 | Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring. | Tom Robbins | ||
| bf12da6 | Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. | Philip Roth | ||
| 16454f6 | This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. | speaking-out freedom-of-speech | Euripides | |
| e7fe363 | She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 9ca06cb | When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 2b2b615 | I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day." | h2g2 hitchhiker-s-guide | Douglas Adams | |
| be7c035 | Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply." | tolkien hobbit farewell | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 58ce3c3 | I love you, Hermione," said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, "Don't let Lavender hear you saying that." "I won't," said Ron into his hands. "Or maybe I will . . . then she'll ditch me . . ." | love hermione ron j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| fd746d9 | Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ed37e28 | You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6fca87a | To whatever end," he whispered. Silver lined her eyes. "To whatever end." A reminder--and a vow, more sacred than the wedding oaths they'd sworn on that ship. To walk this path together, back from the darkness of the iron coffin. To face what waited in Terrasen, ancient promises to the gods be damned." | koa throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas tog | Sarah J. Maas |