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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b0535a | Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap | poetry | e.e. cummings | |
| 77802c0 | He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?" "Like what?" "Like hitting on you." "Ew. No, of course not. He doesn't see me that way." Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee. "What? You think he does?" "Sometimes he looks at you a little... oddly, that's all. Maybe you're right. Maybe he just wants you for your blood." "Again, Ew! What's with you this morning?" "Not enough coffee." | funny ghost-town humor michael-glass morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine shane-collins teacher vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 8ddfee2 | The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do. | Rachel Cohn & David Levithan | ||
| adf390c | There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. | mind suffering | Isaac Asimov | |
| 4f4948e | If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. | Don DeLillo | ||
| baf0737 | They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. | william-golding | William Golding | |
| a90f754 | Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know. | Michael Lewis | ||
| a0541e3 | Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). | habit knowledge skill | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 1b0e784 | The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain. | awareness depressed depression mental-health mental-illness pain prevention psychology suffering suicide | William Styron | |
| 452545f | You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 59fa53e | Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy | depression grief | Joseph Conrad | |
| 0fb7929 | because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. | Anne Lamott | ||
| fd1d050 | Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than ? In what respect was he the superior of ? Was he gentler than , more universal than ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to tho.. | baruch-spinoza bruno buddha buddhism cicero epictetus epicurus gautama-buddha giordano-bruno isaac-newton johannes-kepler kepler kindness laozi newton patience shakespeare socrates spinoza stoicism william-shakespeare wisdom zeno zeno-of-citium zoroaster | Robert G. Ingersoll | |
| 189d56f | Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8cc79f4 | Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves | wordplay | Lewis Carroll | |
| 0854627 | Fang and I searched in every way we could think of and found a million institutes of one kind or another, in Manhattan and throughout New York state, but none of them seemed promising. My favorite? The Institute for Realizing Your Pet's Inner Potential. Anyone who can explain that to me, drop a line. | James Patterson | ||
| bd2b958 | Every name is real. That's the nature of names. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| dc57f20 | What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met. | death terrorism | David Levithan | |
| a73e753 | i can't help thinking that 'getting a life' is something only a complete idiot could believe. like you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, 'wow, i look much happier - i think this is the life i need to get!' take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. if getting a life was that easy, we'd be one blissed.. | David Levithan | ||
| 598e626 | You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit. | self-acceptance | Irvine Welsh | |
| ed58b53 | We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place. | living | Philip Pullman | |
| 1bb8b27 | I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| b3188f9 | Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time? | Daniel Keyes | ||
| f02aada | In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter? | Sharon Creech | ||
| a4af0a3 | It seems to me that we can't explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can't fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn't as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, m.. | fear | Sharon Creech | |
| 6972a3f | As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8057d91 | I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real. | reality | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 169cf7d | I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. | indecision | Sylvia Plath | |
| 19084d6 | When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 6a50c27 | Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. "Rachel may use a guest room in the Big House for now, until we give the matter more thought." "I'm thinking a cave in the hills," Apollo mused. "With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with.. | chiron rachel-elizabeth-dare | Rick Riordan | |
| 5fcd28e | Frank nodded grimly. "Well...any goddess who throws a Ding Dong at a giant can't be all bad. Let's go." | son-of-neptune | Rick Riordan | |
| 9396969 | George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. "The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent." " | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 558d24d | Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. | Rick Riordan | ||
| ca0f721 | The raft finally got here," he said. Calypso snorted. Her eyes might have been red, but it was hard to tell in the moonlight. "You just noticed?" "But if it only shows up for guys you like-" "Don't push your luck, Leo Valdez," she said. "I still hate you." "Okay." "And you are not coming back here," she insisted. "So don't give me any empty promises." "How about a full promise?" he said. "Because I'm definitely-" She grabbed his face and pu.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6ff4fda | To want is to have a weakness. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 327043b | Always remember, child" her first teacher had impressed on her, "that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that need disipline -training- is about. So train your mind to dwell on sweet perfumes, the touch of this silk, tender raindrops against the sh.. | james clavell | ||
| aef97e8 | Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 59ed07d | Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been .. | forgiving | Milan Kundera | |
| d32fc51 | By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko's death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without w.. | haruki murakami | ||
| 03cb66f | What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you. | romance sluts women | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 99c40e6 | Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way. | marriage mistakes | Jodi Picoult | |
| 9244533 | Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you. | self-sacrifice wrong | Jodi Picoult | |
| fd88833 | Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name. | C. S. Lewis | ||
| a1e0c4e | Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES! | Ken Kesey |