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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3f8ddca | There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. | harry-dresden idiocy | Jim Butcher | |
| 8ecf7be | inspirational | ????? ???? | ||
| 796d6a4 | We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. | acceptance-of-oneself awareness fear inspiration inspirational love power self-acceptance self-awareness self-love surrender trust vulnerability | Eric Micha'el Leventhal | |
| b830d11 | inspirational | ???? ?????? | ||
| 393bc23 | Great acts are made up of small deeds. | inspirational | Lao-Tzu | |
| bef14b7 | It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. | author-s-note | Terry Pratchett | |
| dc90a80 | I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. | old spring | Virginia Woolf | |
| c1164fb | Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it." | Art Spiegelman | ||
| 7e9810d | It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 483a395 | I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death. | shades-of-london southerners the-name-of-the-star ya young-adult | Maureen Johnson | |
| 4458f38 | Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. | E.M. Forster | ||
| fa776b0 | Dobby is . | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8b47729 | It's tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn't it? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c76b9b6 | Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 316cdf2 | I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected. | Libba Bray | ||
| 5674e0e | I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity," Sam said." | Libba Bray | ||
| 5fe2b0f | When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.' | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 9695ada | No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 22eb11d | Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work. | dreams inspirational work | Paulo Coelho | |
| c987e28 | Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, she'd admitted, but she would never trust him. She would always hate him for what he'd done. But he could do this for her. Even if he never saw her again, even if she abandoned her duties as King's Champion and stayed with the Fae in Wendlyn forever-as long as he knew that she was safe, that no one could hurt her... He'd sell his soul again and.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 296731a | If you don't marry her, you stupid prick, I will. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d5188fc | Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escap.. | carriage cinderella fairy-tale happiness lily | Rachel Cohn | |
| 0953db6 | Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the d.. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| d6eb98f | I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry. | Christopher Moore | ||
| b98f942 | Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car. | fluke | Christopher Moore | |
| 9958d76 | I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl. | P.C. Cast | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 673e8e2 | Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. | copperfield debt dickens frugality income micawber money motivational pecuniary | 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. | marriage matches matrimony mind purpose suitability unhappiness | 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 | ||
| 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. | literature reading words | 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 janis-joplin jim-morrison music originality patti smith | 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 |