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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9dc2fb2 | If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 006f69c | Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires. ~Brian Fitzgerald | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 14ce6ee | You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way like five or six people all trying to m.. | William C. Faulkner | ||
| ac5ae74 | She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love. | William Faulkner | ||
| 0a170f6 | Too excited to be genuinely happy | James Joyce | ||
| 5ab08c6 | God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a h.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| c0ec339 | Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 91c8bda | The sun burnt every day. It burnt time. | time | Ray Bradbury | |
| 910c199 | The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony. | irony color compassion beauty detail attention interest mystery | Orhan Pamuk | |
| e7e0b6e | To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes." | lestat | Anne Rice | |
| 8b57280 | And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have. | Anne Rice | ||
| 5dd974d | This is so cool," I said loudly as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?" "He's a she," Mom said. "Is she hot? Cause I'm still young, you know. My sexual identity isnt fully formed." "Your father can't hear you anymore, Maya." Mom sighed." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 98d54f2 | They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. | Albert Camus | ||
| 9e35e6e | My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig | Richard Adams | ||
| 737f5e3 | He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f23fdaa | I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4caf2ec | Mujer, you own my soul. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| fc3f47a | I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 2076cd2 | From Jess: FANG. I've commented your blog with my questions for THREE YEARS. You answer other people's STUPID questions but not MINE. YOU REALLY ASKED FOR IT, BUDDY. I'm just gonna comment with this until you answer at least one of my questions. DO YOU HAVE A JAMAICAN ACCENT? No, Mon DO YOU MOLT? Gross. WHAT'S YOUR STAR SIGN? Dont know. "Angel what's my star sign?" She says Scorpio. HAVE YOU TOLD JEB I LOVE HIM YET? No. DOES NOT HAVING A .. | James Patterson | ||
| 994999d | The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted.. | Joan Didion | ||
| c2b5dfc | There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar. | steinbeck favorite | John Steinbeck | |
| a480e7c | She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that i.. | women | John Steinbeck | |
| 9622e98 | stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh! | Dan Brown | ||
| 031cfbc | Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it. | power | Frank Herbert | |
| cef90c0 | When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. | snow | Neal Stephenson | |
| 2208d40 | The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4e44ece | Seven times I have despised my soul: The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height. The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled. The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy. The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong. The fifth time when she forbode for weakness, and attributed her patience to str.. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 29fb2e7 | Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebaren zu konnen. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.) | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| 6cd0de2 | I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 9b7318c | For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. | wisdom wondering thinking | Plato | |
| 1c7166e | Such loyalty is admirable, of course," said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, "but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone." "He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him," said Harry, smiling in spite of himself." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8f2c04e | She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared. | romance love hermione-granger | J.K. Rowling | |
| f979680 | Jacob: Newt . . . I don't think I'm dreaming. Newt: What gave it away? Jacob: I ain't got the brains to make this up. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| eea9906 | Oh, shut up Weatherby. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 01f21e7 | The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d909d82 | And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 339e4e4 | All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist. | philosophy grief-and-loss | Nicole Krauss | |
| dbcdaef | One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me. "I've seen you out there every day for the past week, and everyone knows you stare at me all day in school, if you have something you want to say to me why don't you just say it to my face instead of sneaking around like a crook?" I considered my options. Either I could run away and never go back to school again, maybe even leave the country as a stowaway on a ship bound fo.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| e158d51 | If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cc770c1 | It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| a9dc917 | Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it -- which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution -- do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| deaec05 | I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 2c235d7 | I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastar.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d9e5d4b | Put a shirt on while you're at it," I quipped. A feline smile. "Does it make you uncomfortable?" "I'm surprised there aren't more mirrors in this house, since you seem to love looking at yourself so much." Azriel launched into a coughing fit. Cassian just turned away, a hand clamped over his mouth. Rhys's lips twitched. "There's the Feyre I adore." I" | Sarah J. Maas |