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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | grief-and-loss philosophy | 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 | ||
| 62e921d | You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!" | funny ghost-town humor myrnin rachel-caine the-morganville-vampires vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| d0cde55 | What's possible?' she asked. 'Anything,' he said absently. 'But that's not what I was talking about. Oh, hello, Claire. You're in good time. I need an extra pair of hands.' 'As long as I keep them attached,' she said, which earned her a startled stare. The things you say to me, you'd think I was some sort of monster. | claire-danvers myrnin | Rachel Caine | |
| a13d28d | Her hands brushed Shane's, and he let go of the cards and took hold. And then somehow she was in his lap, and he was kissing her. Hadn't meant to do that but...well. She couldn't exactly be sorry about it, because he tasted amazing, and his lips were so soft and his hands were so strong... He leaned back, eyes half shut, and he was smiling. Shane didn't smile all that much, and it always left her breathless and tingling. There was a secrecy.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 3eee3ae | And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| f433f3c | Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 39125bb | I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who , and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person, because you never went to college, and you resent education, you resent social ease, you resent good manners, you resent success, you resent any kind of success, you resent God, you resent Christ, you resent thousand-.. | William Gaddis | ||
| 25b46e4 | Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. | humor | Christopher Moore | |
| 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. | favorite steinbeck | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 8341256 | Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming. | warnings | William Goldman | |
| 7ec342a | I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 15092c5 | Fiction is an improvement on life | Charles Bukowski | ||
| f6546cd | the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter." | bitterness bukowski death in-the-end individuality life love personality poem poetry self soul | Charles Bukowski | |
| c324c7a | I want to be with you forever and beyond... | romance | Gail Carson Levine | |
| d374518 | I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum'thing has always been and always will be you. I miss you. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| d8c480d | I'll call you," he repeated. "If you call me, I won't pick up the phone." "You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone." -- | ilona-andrews kate magic-bleeds | Ilona Andrews | |
| e6c26f9 | Artemis: "Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre." Myles: "In Paris." Artemis: "Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot attract the waiter's attention. What do you do?" Beckett: "Umm...tell Butler to jump-jump-jump on his head?" Myles: "I agree with simple-toon." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 65bcc40 | The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee. | chimpanzees humanity stories | Terry Pratchett | |
| 82ddcb5 | Whut's the plan, Rob?" said one of them. "Okay, lads, this is what we'll do. As soon as we see somethin', we'll attack it. Right?" This caused a cheer. "Ach, 'tis a good plan," said Daft Wullie." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e514493 | The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. | Elizabeth Gilbert |