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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1878c0c | Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 96892fe | Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150) | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 63cc61b | I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| 87311a4 | You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| 194f72d | I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9a8f342 | That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 21fc916 | Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9c1b84b | People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e1aebe0 | One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. | wisdom | Hermann Hesse | |
| cb4dace | You just noticed? You're slow... | humor weird manga | Tite Kubo | |
| 23595df | Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end by saying that I am on medication. "Still?" people ask. "But you seem fine!" To which I invariably reply that I seem fine because I am fine, and that I am fine in part because of medication. "So how long do you expect to go on taking this stuff?" people ask. When I say that I will be on medication indefinitel.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| d33f5dc | We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I'd liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he was never afraid. You didn't meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call "the Planet of E.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 8b562bc | 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 place | writing | Gertrude Stein | |
| b6c063e | But now isn't simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until -- later of sooner -- perhaps -- no, not perhaps -- quite certainly: it will come. | present time past | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 972090f | How do I love thee? wondered Orion. "Let me see. I love thee passionately and eternally...obviously eternally-that goes without saying." Holly blinked sweat from her eyes. "Is he serious?" she called over her shoulder to Foaly. "Oh, absolutely," said the centaur "If he asks you to look for birthmarks, say no immediately." "Oh, I would never." Orion assured her. "Ladies don't look for birthmarks; that is work for jolly fellows like the Goodl.. | romance foaly orion holly | Eoin Colfer | |
| 9ba820c | God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest. | suicide courage joy death strength optimism life steadfastness endurance | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 776280e | His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 15273e0 | Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If li.. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 6924621 | I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| e49efb6 | I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it. | David Levithan | ||
| 2f610da | Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly - all else is desperation. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 65670ae | I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. | planning | Doris Lessing | |
| dc74dad | I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I'll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it's possible to be. I'm growing and I don't know how to grow. I'm living but I haven't started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Somet.. | existence life growing-up | David Almond | |
| 9652721 | This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs. | humor happy-end | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8a4e702 | I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor | Cornelia Funke | ||
| b210202 | It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail. | Sam Harris | ||
| c408ac2 | Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and.. | poe madness | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| c85d129 | I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an end. I could name the very moment when it had begun, and one day I knew I should be able to name the final hour. When she left the house I couldn't settle to work. I would reconstruct what we had said to each other; I would fan myself into anger or remorse. And all the time I knew I was forcing the pace. I was pushing, pushing the only thing .. | Graham Greene | ||
| db1e4c9 | I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5f2720a | Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth... | light | Neil Gaiman | |
| 4a355a8 | Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked. "In case one of them is stolen," Marked said, as it were entirely normal." | mark-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5912259 | It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true.' 'And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still be true too. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 4cae966 | Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you. | love julian-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| b6ebdc8 | You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin." | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 627966b | Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always will be." "What do you mean?" He flushed, the color dark against his pale skin. "I mean," he said, "Tessa Gray, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" Tessa sat bolt upright. "Jem!" They stared at each other for a moment. At last he said, trying for lightness, though his voice cracked, "That was not a no, I suppose, though neither was it a yes." "You can't mean it." "I do mean it." "You c.. | marriage love tessa-gray jem-carstairs | Cassandra Clare | |
| 13316cc | Butch: -I hear ya. No one's biz but yours. One question though Vishous: -What Butch: -When the females tie you down, do they paint your toe-nails and shit? Or just do your makeup? Wait... they tickle your pits with feather, right? | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| cf2286a | Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right - no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your w.. | lover ward brotherhood dagger black | J.R. Ward | |
| ca735d9 | You just gotta tell her, man,' I said. 'You just gotta say, "Angela, I really like you, but there's something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we'll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas." -- | John Green | ||
| f62f4e3 | Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?" Win?" Yeah." You okay?" Hello?" Win?" Yeah." What took you so long to answer the phone?" Hello?" Win?" Who is this?" Myron." Myron Bolitar?" How many other Myrons do you know?" Myron Bolitar?" No, Myron Rockefeller." Something's wrong," Win said. What?" Terribly wrong." What are you talking about?" Some.. | Harlan Coben | ||
| b66737d | Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior. | love | Christopher Paolini | |
| 9b37174 | It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. | life | Christopher Paolini | |
| 4eb5af5 | Hell's bells, irony blows. | irony humor | Jim Butcher | |
| fb8ff8f | If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places." | humor karrin-murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| 77ae687 | Tell me again what you said at the revel," he says, climbing over me, his body against mine. "What?" I can barely think. "That you hate me," he says, his voice hoarse. "Tell me that you hate me." "I hate you," I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you." He kisses me harder. "I hate you," I breathe into his mouth. .. | hate enchantment kisses revel oblivion | Holly Black |