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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | humor india past time | 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 | ||
| 56fc397 | Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving | every-day | David Levithan | |
| 5e68458 | Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 9dbd1b1 | Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4ca81af | If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void. | opal | Eoin Colfer | |
| 53fc663 | If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. | friends friendship respect | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 28ead57 | On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages that moved him: "He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others... I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 151e32a | Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 2d8926b | A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5004edb | I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 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" | life live promise sweet | 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. | percy-jackson-and-the-olympians piper-mclean self-confidence self-esteem skolopendra the-mark-of-athena | 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." | bronze echo hazel-levesque humor leo-valdez narissus nymphs | 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 nico-di-angelo percy-jackson | 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. | ares fear love piper-mclean wisdom | 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 meditation steve-jobs zen | 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 | ||
| dffa567 | Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 2e7755d | Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 5314fc4 | You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-" "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to." | gender-stereotypes humour | Tamora Pierce | |
| adb836a | He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep. | stupidity | Tamora Pierce | |
| 8ac4c01 | You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4e08ef3 | Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. | parenting parents | Neil Gaiman | |
| 17843d1 | I trudged back to my bedroom and pushed the door open, intending to wash my face or brush my teeth or make some stab at smoothing my hair, because I thought it might make me feel a little less trampled. Eric was sitting on my bed, his face buried in his hands. He looked up at me as I entered, and he looked shocked. Well, no wonder, what with the very thorough takeover and traumatic changing of the guard. Sitting here on your bed, smelling.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 30e05e0 | I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide. | tiredness | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 86feaf2 | Emma's gaze went from Alec to Jace, curious. "Do you worry about him?" she asked Alec, surprising a laugh out of him. "All the time," he said. "Jace could get himself killed putting his pants on in the morning. Being his parabatai is a full-time job." | emma jace parabatai | Cassandra Clare | |
| 979be12 | I am here to determine my relationship." Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Could she? "Do you see that man?" Isabelle asked, pointing at Simon. Apparently she was talking about him. "That's Simon Lewis, and he is my boyfriend. So if any of you think about trying to hurt him because he's a mundie or--may the Angel have mercy on your soul--pursuing him romantically, I will come after you, I will hunt you down and I will crush .. | isabelle-lightwood mundie simon-lewis sizzy | Cassandra Clare | |
| ebaf872 | My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands." | jace love | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4f3b0b9 | Magnus, we're going down to the lake," he said. "Do you want to come?" "Why?" Magnus inquired. Alec shrugged, "Clary says it's pretty," he said. "I mean, I've seen it before, but there was a huge angel rising out of it, and that was distracting." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 48a7352 | You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes. | expatriate sex | Ernest Hemingway | |
| a45de34 | When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. | critical-thinking editing revisions writing | Stephen King | |
| de12e65 | Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil. | love monsters vampires | Christopher Pike | |
| daba749 | His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand--passive resistance and open displays of contempt. | Kurt Vonnegut |