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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3e6f8df | I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 7a185f0 | American humorist Kin Hubbard said , "It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be". The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue... Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any.. | poverty | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 5480547 | I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 54fcb32 | There's only one rule that I know of, babies--God damn it, you've got to be kind. | inspirational philosophy | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 19eb3e5 | Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " .. | free-will life | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| a39dab5 | Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 5ef520b | I didn't think about being king," he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. "Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?" | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 6f93369 | There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 8197a0f | In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. | light read stories write | Alberto Manguel | |
| af6c421 | So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 0fb7a1d | Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. | beauty inspirational truth | Khalil Gibran | |
| 18a0cb3 | In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? | art destiny inspirational on-writing | Rainer Maria Rilke | |
| e185dd4 | Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades | death inspirational lee-argus life love qoutes-to-live-by quote romance | Lee Argus | |
| ab037a0 | Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. | clumsiness grace inspirational | Confucius | |
| b1af5b4 | I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart. | be-yourself beauty best feelings head heart heartache heartbreak infatuation inspirational life life-lessons love lust mistakes realist relationships sentimental sex truth word-junkies | Crystal Woods | |
| df282fe | I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth. | inspirational | Amy Harmon | |
| 35cc1ff | Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. | inspirational | Werner Herzog | |
| 6842235 | But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 533e139 | A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been. | writing | Betty Smith | |
| 65b1737 | Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle | Gregory Maguire | ||
| de03ff6 | We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down." | Chinua Achebe | ||
| d6845c7 | It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 83cbb5b | People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people. | humor humorous ironic irony | Terry Pratchett | |
| b98650f | The heaviest burden: "What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh... must return to you--all in the same succession and sequence--even this spider and this moonlight between the .. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| 2ba38ab | You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say? | Yann Martel | ||
| f590596 | Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also | inspirational | J.K. Rowling | |
| 76f72f3 | It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 83fd1c1 | Metaphors are lies. | Mark Haddon | ||
| db8be9c | I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on an island," Mary Lou said to Adina one afternoon as they rested on their elbows taking bites from the same papaya. "Lord of the Flies. What about it?" You know how you said it wasn't a true measure of humanity because there were no girls and you wondered how it would be different if there had been girls?" "Yeah?" "Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they nee.. | Libba Bray | ||
| c8f0b75 | I am Jack's smirking revenge. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cb1b7a3 | I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 29d7d97 | He tugged on the hood, and I savored the shadows and menace and wings. . That's what I'd call the painting. He said softly, "I love it when you look at me like that." The purr in his voice heated my blood. "Like what?" "Like my power isn't something to run from. Like you see me." | pg466 rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8fdb974 | He gripped her hard, forcing her to meet his eyes as he snarled, "I see you. I see every part of you. And I am not afraid." . A line in the burning brightness. ." | love pg418 rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| bcd2fe7 | We'd better eat before we raise hell. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c84437d | Rhysand merely raised a brow. "I already have everything I want." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 31195be | Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? | Walt Whitman | ||
| ae674b0 | There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?" | Rachel Caine | ||
| d2af231 | Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask | Rachel Cohn | ||
| b2d9e88 | Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking. | liking ownership | José Saramago | |
| 2050759 | Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside | José Saramago | ||
| 8057660 | Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have. | fate life predetermination | Kevin Brockmeier | |
| cff8c84 | We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all. | Joan Didion | ||
| 76db2df | Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. | Ayn Rand | ||
| c66745a | You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him. | J.R.R. Tolkien |