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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 | hazel-grace thoughts 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. | inspirational success | 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. | inspirational life | 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 | conservation earth environmentalism inspirational science | 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. | inspirational success | Michelle Obama | |
| a5fedbe | To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole; | Donna Tartt | ||
| 8498fed | every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a51ac1c | Never run from one such as me, female. You will no' get away - and we like it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3eb9231 | I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. | reading | Virginia Woolf | |
| dbf11d8 | But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day.. | lgbt life love philosophy religion | Jeanette Winterson | |
| a5234c4 | The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god). | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 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 . . ." | hermione j-k-rowling love ron | 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 sarah-j-maas throne-of-glass tog | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 63826c9 | He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear - and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly. | men women | Cornelia Funke | |
| 8bc92b9 | Never criticize, unless you can do a better job. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| a6982f7 | Wasn't he the one who sliced off his ear and mailed it to his girlfriend?" "Van Gogh," said Varen, in a monotone that suggested he might be in pain. "Van ," Gwen said, leaning away, waving the apple. "Edgar Allan . Close enough!" | Kelly Creagh | ||
| ee3f5b5 | Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less ? that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. | poetry | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| bf12da6 | Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. | Philip Roth | ||
| 16454f6 | This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. | freedom-of-speech speaking-out | 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." | farewell hobbit tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 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. | albert-camus existentialism life literature philosophy the-stranger | 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 | ||
| e13fba8 | life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle - | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 076fc6f | Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 8bde983 | dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 390eb26 | I feel a little dizzy," said Orion. "But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word ." "Oxygen deprivation," said Foaly. "Or maybe it's just him." | orange orion rhyme | Eoin Colfer |