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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4710055 | What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty? | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 7ee4fb6 | No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. | Robert Greene | ||
| 97d5769 | People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires. | Robert Greene | ||
| 89da763 | It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up." -- | Mitch Albom | ||
| d45a1d8 | All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 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. | attention beauty color compassion detail interest irony mystery | Orhan Pamuk | |
| cd96e66 | The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.. | magic mothers | Robin McKinley | |
| 836adc9 | It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 749b0de | You're kind of dirty, Kitten." I blinked. Deny. Deny. Deny. "What did you say?" -- | katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| e7dae20 | He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds...extreme,' Jason ventured. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 691a279 | A real man's weapon is his mind. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 72f0054 | Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy? Roarke: You'd be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back. Eve: You're not going to hell. Roarke: Oh, and have you got some inside intel on that? Eve: You married a cop...you married me. I'm your goddamn salvation. | mystery romance suspense | J.D. Robb | |
| 59b6524 | I'm blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 4e654fb | This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you. | friends secret secrets shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | |
| c812ddf | And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e5f7523 | Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It's precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get t.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 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 | ||
| 7110f8c | I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options. | gravity | Neil Gaiman | |
| 27606f4 | One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time. | Carl Sagan | ||
| e999d52 | Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 33cb606 | Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. | show-love-for-dogs | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 0a352f6 | Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will. | clockwork-princess jem-carstairs page-245 will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6e22aa2 | They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2f92595 | You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place has been your home." His fingers stroked her wrist lightly, making her shiver. "You are home for me now." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 94ee033 | Clary: What are you doing here, anyway? | city-of-bones clary-morgenstern jace-wayland mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7ade2c6 | Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn't blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain. | friendship lgtbq simon | Cassandra Clare | |
| d4afbd4 | Have you ever felt that your heart contained so much that it must surely break apart | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 29a4dce | The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and... "And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation." | funny mortal-instruments simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 63a7b2a | Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging. | Toni Morrison | ||
| ffe0cfd | I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. | honesty politics | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 2fa9e9d | Only in books do we learn what's really going on. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 2d2bc6f | I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living. | funerals mourning | John Green | |
| d17ff45 | Break hearts, not promises. | turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| 35a63b8 | It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist. | hazel | John Green | |
| dbc3ebd | Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? | inspirational love motivational self-empowerment self-esteem self-realization spiritual truth | Marianne Williamson | |
| 60f3a2e | Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them. | Veronica Roth | ||
| babd05e | He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine. | tris-prior | Veronica Roth |