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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 987a94d | It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying. | dying living | Stephen King | |
| bdd6ada | In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually trying to stop it...No, I only meant to give him a shave...No, I didn't realize that slicing open someone's jugular was going to lead to death. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 386e102 | America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glori.. | poverty | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 4b14036 | I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 3a495a2 | In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments | john-green talk turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| e6d9f2c | I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| aecf925 | Having regrets is the only sign that you've done anything interesting with your life. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 07b7328 | You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside. | inner-strength life | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 326f2e1 | I think that are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the avarge person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that is put to the test, it all falls apart." I am crying now, nut I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, bec.. | tris | Veronica Roth | |
| b1e4336 | Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover's kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| dcb5e01 | Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him. | roger-ames | Sun Tzu | |
| 8f6d41e | Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5501941 | Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless were going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense.. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| b3f5041 | I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point. | ferro harry-dresden humor sarcasm | Jim Butcher | |
| 0b91fd1 | As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. | wonder | Charles Baudelaire | |
| a97aa27 | I am not afraid... I was born to do this. | inspirational | Joan of Arc | |
| 16e4989 | He who binds to himself a jo | inspirational wisdom | William Blake | |
| 6e305ce | You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful. | beauty inspirational lies self-love | Steve Maraboli | |
| 7faddea | If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all... | inspirational | Darren E. Laws | |
| 70f5b46 | The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. | freedom global-oneness inspirational life love meditation miracles-of-life nonduality-yoga oneness oneness-with-life unity unity-consciousness yoga | Amit Ray | |
| 1c38102 | When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace. | grace inspirational life | Patricia Briggs | |
| f77cb1b | Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. | humor inspirational | Bernard Baruch | |
| 354394f | I do like the world quite a lot. | inspirational | Shannon Hale | |
| b30cb13 | You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take plac | inspirational writing | Gertrude Stein | |
| e1207b0 | It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you. | inspirational life | Lady Gaga | |
| f0d1116 | Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today. | action belief beliefs believe choice choices decision future inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| d717357 | As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed. | Betty Smith | ||
| 21a9283 | In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| 9f6133c | It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather! | Louis Sachar | ||
| 8b5b13f | People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again--but it finds a tougher surface. | Willa Cather | ||
| 6ad9594 | In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos] | immensity joy love marriage science space time true-love vastness wife | Carl Sagan | |
| 2e69565 | Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. | reason | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7c6d3c7 | He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute. | debate disagreement dispute heat ice thoughts | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| af61da6 | All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. | strange | Yann Martel | |
| eacdfcc | My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself. | tonks | J.K. Rowling | |
| 73385aa | You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the t.. | molly-weasley voldemort | J.K. Rowling | |
| e905b9b | And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery...and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. | self-confidence | Mark Haddon | |
| e1c0cd2 | Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered." | sleep stirred whispered | Lois Lowry | |
| b95c145 | Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?" "Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can." | Libba Bray | ||
| ddb405a | There is no greater power on this earth than story." Will paced the length of the room. "People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense--words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions--words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History." Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. "This, and these"--he gestured to the library's teeming shelves--"they're a testament to the country's rich supernatura.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 475a6e1 | This is not an exit. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 8da46e2 | Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are." -- | politics second-amendment | Ann Coulter | |
| eed7301 | You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2ddbd48 | And Chaol was afraid, but not for himself. He was afraid of what would come when Aedion and Aelin were reunited. For he'd seen in her that same glittering ember that made people look and listen. Had seen her stalk into the council with Councilor Mullison's head and smile at the King of Adarlan, every man in that room enthralled and petrified by the dark whirlwind of her spirit. The two of them together, both of them lethal, working to build.. | Sarah J. Maas |