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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e7c245 | You are what you believe yourself to be. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e6fa27f | We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?" | friendly magnus-bane gay dating | Cassandra Clare | |
| 81dd58f | When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. | death funeral-rites holden | J.D. Salinger | |
| fc2ae7c | I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 181c613 | There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million.. | third-wheel | Sylvia Plath | |
| 3cdd55a | The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c5e1f8e | How would your life be different if...You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day...You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey. | action kindness compassion change success life inspirational judging respect assumption | Steve Maraboli | |
| ece7fcd | I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. | slavery obsession | Sylvia Plath | |
| a89af26 | Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. | beauty humor love conceit | William Goldman | |
| 5f6a7a0 | We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. | William Faulkner | ||
| 96807b0 | Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 4546411 | I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. | moving-on memories future past homelessness belonging leaving attachment uncertainty roots home reminiscence memory | Beryl Markham | |
| fbdb110 | I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| af08910 | Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. | George Orwell | ||
| aa43a6a | When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. | silence | Wisława Szymborska | |
| 0e7c694 | Did you know that wasn't me, the other Max?" I asked. "Yeah." "When?" "Right away." "How?" I persisted. "We look identical. She even had identical scars and scratches. She was wearing my clothes. How could you tell us apart?" He turned to me and grinned, making my world brighter. "She offered to cook breakfast." | maxride | James Patterson | |
| d922ec6 | I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez | the-mark-of-athena rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| b0ce57b | There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. | truth resilience ruins | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 797d203 | Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am. | Henry Miller | ||
| cc9ecd0 | One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8f761b5 | I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same. | love julia-romano unrequited | Jodi Picoult | |
| 6417c12 | I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. | heartbroken | Emily Brontë | |
| fdc3375 | Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 13db51f | I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. | solitude company privacy | Henry David Thoreau | |
| c8c5de7 | Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4e98adf | Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. | christianity jesus religion god heart rest restlessness peace desire longing | Augustine of Hippo | |
| a56b303 | You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. I mean, I could hate you for being massively unpunctual and for never being interested in anything other than Margo Roth Spiegelman, and for, like, never asking me about how it's going with my girlfriend - but I don't give a shit, man, because you're you. My parents have a shit ton of black Santas, but that's okay. They're them. I'm too obsessed with a reference.. | radar | John Green | |
| 3bcb3b6 | Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. | song-of-ice-and-fire tyrion-lannister george-r-r-martin | George R.R. Martin | |
| bd37dc3 | for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. | empathy | Milan Kundera | |
| 2c8fc49 | Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make. | letting-go-and-moving-on letting-go future choice inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 7be686e | But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d38f0bf | There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1405335 | Do I dare Disturb the universe? | poetry | T.S. Eliot | |
| dda2822 | A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you.. | inspirational | Wendy Mass | |
| 3d90635 | Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. | life-happiness inspirational | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| ec1d523 | Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..." "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 89ffa1e | Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading - Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written - Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered - Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First - Books Too Expensive Now and You'l.. | reading humor | Italo Calvino | |
| 7ac3a15 | i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... An.. | poetry | e.e. cummings | |
| 66d5ec8 | If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoug.. | perseverance life inspirational moral-courage manhood | Rudyard Kipling | |
| db82cd9 | Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod." | friendship debt favor knife percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| fe0a05c | Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. For ancient king and elvish lord There many a gleaming golden hoard They shaped and wrought, and light they caught To hide in gems on hilt of sword. On silver n.. | poetry song | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3042442 | When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. | talking | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| a85fa4f | aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things." | funny | Cassandra Clare | |
| 08b1db6 | Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. | Leo Tolstoy |