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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5054090 | Clary shut her eyes. You didn't say no to an angel, no matter what it had in mind. Her heart pounding, she sat floating in the darkness behind her eyelids, resolutely trying not to think of Jace. But his face appear against the blank screen of her closed eyelids anyway - not smiling at her but looking sidelong, and she could see the scar at his temple, the uneven curl at the corner of his mouth, and the silver line on his throat where Simon.. | love | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2cd3afa | She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 4d1aff5 | Once there was a boy," said Jace. Clary interrupted immediately. "A Shadowhunter boy?" "Of course." For a moment a bleak amusement colored his voice. Then it was gone. "When the boy was six years old, his father gave him a falcon to train. Falcons are raptors - killing birds, his father told him, the Shadowhunters of the sky. "The falcon didn't like the boy, and the boy didn't like it, either. Its sharp beak made him nervous, and its bright.. | science love inspirational destroyed falcon jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 796797f | Will's Father's gaze went immediately to Gabriel, and then to Cecily, his eyes narrowing. "And who is this gentlemen?" Will's grin widened. "Oh him," he said. "This is Cecliy's friend, Mr. Gabriel Lightworm." Gabriel, half in the act of stretching his hand to greet Mr. Herondale, froze in horror. "Lightwood," he sputtered. "Gabriel Lightwood." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a347b95 | Will," she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. "Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break." | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| cd5e6b6 | There is a muse, but he's not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer. He lives in the ground. He's a basement kind of guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies .. | Stephen King | ||
| 05e69fb | We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand. | the-drawing-of-the-three stephen-king roland-deschain the-dark-tower | Stephen King | |
| aab264c | Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it? | Stephen King | ||
| 09ac099 | We always say we are beneath the stars. We aren't, of course--there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human--we are whos, other animals are that--but English puts us beneath the stars, at least. | John Green | ||
| b581e70 | I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along with. But I don't know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with. | John Green | ||
| 79a8d3e | dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. | John Green | ||
| 15b6945 | For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a850409 | I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I just remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 1bfcd60 | All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. | life wisdom successful-people goal-setting planning | Brian Tracy | |
| 4fc5f93 | Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 2f5c465 | It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea of what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching...and that's just at my house. Imagine what it would be like here. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| d580acc | In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases | John Irving | ||
| f6ef2c8 | I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn't some sinister force dragging me toward death. This time I know it's my mother's hand, drawing me into her arms. And I go gladly into her embrace. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 5cc97f0 | I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up as a flying rat? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else... Only .. | realisation genius radical insanity | Alan Moore | |
| 1420665 | Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| baa4fb5 | War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle. For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrail.. | war knight knights | George R.R. Martin | |
| c49fa05 | If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. | war strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| 6e1fde5 | There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. | real | Jean Rhys | |
| d8155a9 | Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. | earth save dishes help mom | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 2e1f017 | Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy." | humor karrin-murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| fb15d74 | Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time. | heroism humor | Jim Butcher | |
| c614cb6 | Excelsior! | marvel-comics inspirational stan-lee comics marvel | Stan Lee | |
| 128b110 | Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? | life inspirational being-yourself authenticity | Steve Maraboli | |
| abcb491 | Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a po.. | writing inspirational | Gloria Anzaldúa | |
| 7f68c86 | If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it? | inspirational | Stephen King | |
| 06ff23f | In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. | equality politics humor inspirational country diversity | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 8544e90 | I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing. | Donald Miller | ||
| 9e86e4d | Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them. | humor love tattoos | Laurie Notaro | |
| 2c30342 | I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b69d07c | He didn't think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9707124 | Jason turned to Leo. "Do you think you can fly this thing?" "Um..." Leo put his hand on the side of the helicopter, concentrating hard, as if listening to the machine. "Bell 412HP utility helicopter," Leo said. "Composite four-blade main rotor, cruising speed twenty-two knots, service ceiling twenty-thousand feet. The tank is near full. Sure, I can fly it." Piper smiled at the ranger again. "You din't have a problem with an under-aged unlic.. | piper-mclean lost-hero leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| ecf9181 | Her hair is smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arms, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 54d1b59 | Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 3c59cb2 | The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women. | men relationships women | Milan Kundera | |
| 9794be9 | Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3b22f02 | Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| af9074f | In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity" | mere-christianity theology | C.S. Lewis | |
| 7ec08f5 | Strength through adversity. The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it strength. Those two things make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight. (Savitar) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9db18a7 | Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi) | tory | Sherrilyn Kenyon |