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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. | philosophy inspirational | 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 write read stories | 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 truth inspirational | 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? | destiny inspirational art 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 | lee-argus qoutes-to-live-by romance quote death life love inspirational | Lee Argus | |
| ab037a0 | Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. | clumsiness inspirational grace | 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 sex word-junkies feelings relationships beauty heartbreak life-lessons heart life love truth inspirational realist best heartache infatuation sentimental head mistakes lust | 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 | |
| 1735fa1 | I'll tell you how the sun rose A ribbon at a time... It's a living book, this life; it folds out in a million settings, cast with a billion beautiful characters, and it is almost over for you. It doesn't matter how old you are; it is coming to a close quickly, and soon the credits will roll and all your friends will fold out of your funeral and drive back to their homes in cold and still and silence. And they will make a fire and pour som.. | Donald Miller | ||
| ab13b41 | Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the .. | Judith Butler | ||
| dda09f5 | I promise you that this isn't going to be our future, Kitten. I will give that to you--a normal life." Her eyes glistened. "I don't expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you" | live life sweet promise | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| e896b20 | Oh, I was two seconds from jumping on his back and strangling him from behind... with love, of course. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 35afd6b | Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of . Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective. | skolopendra piper-mclean percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena self-confidence self-esteem | Rick Riordan | |
| 3f649db | Yes!" Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. "The first one who get that bronze, I will like you as much as I like me. I might even kiss you, right after I kiss my reflection!" "Oh my gods!" the nymphs squealed." | humor bronze echo narissus nymphs hazel-levesque leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 7f783d5 | Nico studied his face - his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on. | love percy-jackson nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| 8836bb8 | Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions. That's why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons - Fear and Panic - were spawned from both war and love. | fear love wisdom ares piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| 37b5e52 | Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stac.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 5e339ee | The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ee981df | If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It'.. | india inspirational steve-jobs zen meditation | Walter Isaacson | |
| 598ea49 | She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d04ecf1 | You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a7aa9f0 | Don't let those people steal your day | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9611eab | You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ce43125 | It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 9b5f9e2 | No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time. | time india past humor | Salman Rushdie | |
| 30e58e2 | No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here; | William Shakespeare | ||
| c14b4e0 | That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| dffa567 | Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |