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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3f8ddca | There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. | idiocy harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 8ecf7be | inspirational | ????? ???? | ||
| 796d6a4 | We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. | acceptance-of-oneself fear self-awareness trust inspiration love inspirational self-acceptance self-love awareness vulnerability power surrender | Eric Micha'el Leventhal | |
| b830d11 | inspirational | ???? ?????? | ||
| 393bc23 | Great acts are made up of small deeds. | inspirational | Lao-Tzu | |
| c240bd0 | Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing. | existance reality | William S. Burroughs | |
| ecb10e4 | Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 51385c9 | Incredible," Jason said. "These are really good brownies." "That's your only comment?" Piper demanded. He looked surprised. "What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--" "I know," Frank said, his mouth full. "Try them with Esther's peach preserves." "That," Hazel said, "is incredibly disgusting." "Pass me the jar, man," Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look o.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| f4d6005 | It was an annoying name to have. People tended to spell in Mangus, rhymes with Angus. I always corrected them: At which point they would stare at me blankly. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 41ae931 | Nice creepy reptile," Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. "Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 29ec2e4 | My name is Magnus Chase. I'm sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed. | Rick Riordan | ||
| ad2eda1 | Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be. | home percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena the-heroes-of-olympus nostalgia | Rick Riordan | |
| 5089574 | If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ... | situation pretend | Sophie Kinsella | |
| c813aa9 | Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive. | pain | Robert Jordan | |
| 388d829 | It took me to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really raring to go. I was in my study writing. I was learning how to go down into myself and salvage bits and pieces of the past. I was learning how to sneak up on the unconscious and how to c.. | feminism thoughts writing insecurity | Erica Jong | |
| 06da198 | You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. | shame secrets | Alice Munro | |
| dde5092 | Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| dac21f8 | The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart. | heart growth | Haruki Murakami | |
| 93eaa95 | We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect. | survive perfect lives | Haruki Murakami | |
| 3d316da | The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5a5033c | I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy. | James Joyce | ||
| 06708fb | God made food; the devil the cooks. | James Joyce | ||
| 3d8c645 | I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth,--the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names." | poetry death truth keats | emily dickinson | |
| 26bdb14 | I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books. | words literature reading | Marilynne Robinson | |
| ace05b5 | Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud! | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ac46c01 | So that's it then. You're just going to be mean to me. (Artemis) Mean to you? Mean? Fuck you, Artemis! I was butchered on the floor by your brother while you watched it happen. Then, when I was finally happy someplace, gods forbid, you tricked me into drinking your blood to bind me to you. And you think I'm mean? Bitch, please, you haven't seen mean yet. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c1cf653 | Where have you been?" she cried. "Damn you, where have you been?" She took a few steps toward Schmendrick, but she was looking beyond him, at the unicorn. When she tried to get by, the magician stood in her way. "You don't talk like that," he told her, still uncertain that Molly had recognized the unicorn. "Don't you know how to behave, woman? You don't curtsy, either." But Molly pushed him aside and went up to the unicorn, scolding her as .. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| fee3208 | Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5e23bfe | Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| a6798be | I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, | inspiration music janis-joplin jim-morrison patti smith originality | Patti Smith | |
| 7646dc6 | Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth." | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| 28e49bc | What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ad6f264 | Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7982a3a | You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 63f4f03 | New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. | new-york-city | John Steinbeck | |
| a33a7b3 | Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle--like getting to work on time or paying our taxes. | Dan Brown | ||
| 668969b | Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now. | Rick Warren | ||
| 673e8e2 | Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. | money motivational copperfield micawber pecuniary dickens frugality income debt | Charles Dickens | |
| 1f277c8 | Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 1642a05 | There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. | unhappiness marriage mind suitability matches matrimony purpose | Charles Dickens | |
| b698b5c | It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two. | Truman Capote | ||
| 6d18c91 | That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 7c4e6bc | Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked). | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 32a17a3 | That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered. | J.R.R. Tolkien |