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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 710c96c | There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| abf1755 | I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7937dc9 | You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments." "Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git." | humor prefect | J.K. Rowling | |
| 21b60b1 | What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end... | Tim O'Brien | ||
| f766405 | What was she like?" I tell the truth. "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 be another." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| df1a803 | A book is as private and consensual as sex. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 438d1cd | 15. WHENEVER I WENT OUT TO PLAY, MY MOTHER WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING TO BE When I'd come in, she'd call me into her bedroom, take me in her arms, and cover me with kisses. She'd stroke my hair and say, 'I love you so much,' and when I sneezed she'd say, 'Bless you, you know how much I love you, don't you?' and when I got up for a tissue she'd say, 'Let me get that for you I love you so much,' and when I looked for a pen to do.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 9957dc7 | Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3e1d93c | Death frees from the fear of dying | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0ef2d63 | The walls weren't moving, and the room was open - gaping. No colors, but shades of darkness, of night . Only those star-flecked violet eyes were bright, full of color and light. He gave me a lazy smile before he leaned forward. I pulled away, but his hands were like shackles. I could do nothing as his mouth met with my cheek, and he licked away a tear. His tongue was hot against my skin, so startling that I couldn't move as he licked away a.. | stop-crying freyre rhysand sassy rhys | Sarah J. Maas | |
| faaff53 | Because your human joy fascinates me--the way you experience things, in your life span, so wildly and deeply and all at once, is ... entrancing. I'm drawn to it, even when I know I shouldn't be, even when I try not to be. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 91d3b44 | He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 147f0fb | Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. | warnings human-nature monsters | Sue Grafton | |
| ebbfb04 | But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. | Norton Juster | ||
| 61b2561 | Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not e.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 77a892d | only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail. | philosophy | David Eddings | |
| 3e20aad | I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! | friends | Charlotte Brontë | |
| b7047ce | Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| f28a679 | The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5165ad9 | Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 6382f2e | Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 65c0f13 | And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot | Maurice Sendak | ||
| 0a45263 | Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be r.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| d0d327d | She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference. | Thomas Harris | ||
| e67aded | Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. | law | William Gaddis | |
| 828a07e | Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 666b142 | I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You're the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You're my letter to desire: And you'll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, | words passion love | Neil Gaiman | |
| aa90e20 | Understanding is a kind of ecstasy | understanding | Carl Sagan | |
| 8865e63 | We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 4f2d66b | Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid. | dark apprentice delaney last-apprentice tom-ward | Joseph Delaney | |
| 789158f | You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. | love | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 5ac7146 | The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gr.. | wealth youth intelligence inspirational dorian-gray good-looks oscar-wilde stupid-people curse brains gods power | Oscar Wilde | |
| 0c55313 | My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman! | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 11adbaf | Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew mo.. | funny humor neighbors romance-relationship city-of-lost-souls the-mortal-instruments apartment cassandra-clare new-york | Cassandra Clare | |
| f672e30 | And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f54ff7b | But--but..." Will sputtered. "Oh, leave it," said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. "She annexed my plan!" "Will," Tessa said firmly. "Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit for it?" Will pointed a finger at her. "That," he said. "The second one." | infernal-devices | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7036ec3 | At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?" -- | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 1d674f9 | She looked across the room at , she wasn't sure why, only to find that They both glanced hastily away. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 557f46e | I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray" | words love tessa | Cassandra Clare | |
| e048f7c | I'm--sorry about being a lousy date," Alec muttered. "What are you talking about?" Magnus asked. "You're a fantastic date. You've only been here ten minutes, and I already got half of your clothes off." | first-dates malec magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| c012948 | Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d55b861 | I have an idea," Simon said. "Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?" "Vividly," Jace said. "It was a dark time." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d0593cc | Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 920e50a | Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. | Kurt Vonnegut |