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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 56692e9 | Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 39e82d5 | The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0c755f1 | I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 466a83c | I`m thinking that I was a lonely, hopeless person, and I might have fallen in love with the first thing that showed me a hint of kindness and safety | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f572e20 | I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 0119e8f | Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying - what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 1992aca | It is no use trying to sum people up. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| fd5d0e1 | Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. | notoriety | Virginia Woolf | |
| d28f2f4 | You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It's the playing that's irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 61dd5a5 | No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0c73f5d | A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. | reflection | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 86e9e9c | For I am--or I was--one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all--a real decision makes one humble, one knows.. | virtue personality world life pride | James Baldwin | |
| 8d276bf | He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty. | love levin | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a90e733 | You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try | David Levithan | ||
| e008a8d | Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| ce0da03 | The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color... | regret summer | Natalie Babbitt | |
| 593ca26 | So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky. | the-golden-compass philip-pullman | Philip Pullman | |
| d4bb622 | Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky. | eve-rosser michael-glass reba shane-collins parents | Rachel Caine | |
| ddd5779 | When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| efa31d2 | I get so god damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days. It overwhelms me as I'm sitting on the bus; watching the golden leaves from a window; a sudden burst of realisation in the middle of the night. I can't help it and I can't stop it. I'm alone as I've always been and sometimes it hurts.... but I'm learning to breathe deep through it and keep walking. I'm learning to make things nice for myself. To comfort my own heart when I .. | lovely gratitude happy trying feelings depression joy books learning life-quotes sadness friendship heart heal anxiety-disorder being-happy bus december mental-wellness panic-attacks minimalism breath deep self-care mindfulness healing prose plan breathing growing-up well sky worrying worries emotions panic moment regret learn recovery lonely sad night mental-health letters | Charlotte Eriksson | |
| 6a63991 | See with your soul and not your eyes | P.C. Cast | ||
| 4a4ab82 | The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck." | romance humor true-blood sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 26bc32c | I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 3d6da67 | What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?" "A piano." "Simon." "A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?" | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| d39cd61 | The door buzzer sounded again. The two boys exchanged a single look before both bolting down the narrow hallway to the door. Jordan got there first. He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held aboe his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?" Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been .. | funny humor coatrack coats jordan-kyle city-of-fallen-angels the-mortal-instruments jace-lightwood jace-wayland simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1ecb211 | Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?" "Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy. That and he's killed more demons than anyone else his age." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| fdb66e1 | Why are you such an asshat?" "An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f375efa | He broke up with me." "Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box." "No one has a boom box anymore. That was the eighties." | luke | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4d6b1e6 | Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer. | sebastian-verlac magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9bb3040 | I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. | on-writing storytelling stories | Stephen King | |
| 75136cb | It was like drowning, only from the inside out. | Stephen King | ||
| 91bf5b7 | The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better. | Stephen King | ||
| d02b30e | Want your boat, Georgie?' Pennywise asked. 'I only repeat myself because you really do not seem that eager.' He held it up, smiling. He was wearing a baggy silk suit with great big orange buttons. A bright tie, electric-blue, flopped down his front, and on his hands were big white gloves, like the kind Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck always wore. Yes, sure,' George said, looking into the stormdrain. And a balloon? I've got red and green and ye.. | Stephen King | ||
| 0c61a08 | Payne looked back through the glass at the human on the bed. "Yes. I am in love with him. And if you try to dissuade me by the fact that I have not lived yet enough to judge, I say unto you...fuck off." | J.R. Ward | ||
| a3631fc | Christ, don't you ever knock? It's Lassiter. L-A-S-S-I-T-E-R. How is it possible you're still getting me confused with someone else? Do I need a nametag? | J.R. Ward | ||
| 9558bf9 | Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| dcc4afc | And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you. | colin-singleton john-green | John Green | |
| a0aeed4 | So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 27e9e44 | I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you." -Kev to Win" | love kev win obsession | Lisa Kleypas | |
| f1b6efe | He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 141b4db | Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang for it, and so will his squad, most of whom are also nice men, and though I can't say I really care if your attendants hang, there are probably many people that do care, and would you please, please get down?" The king looked at him, eyes narrowed. "I don't think I've ever heard you say that many words in a row. You soun.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 92545b5 | It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again." | Mary Higgins Clark | ||
| 833fc06 | Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f01ff15 | Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. | Robin Hobb |