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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5de3315 | Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 585c204 | If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9194f16 | Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them. It was really nice sightseeing, if you know what I mean. In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them. When they got out of school and college, I mean. You figured most.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 96ecdb7 | I don't make threats. Only promises. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0d8eaba | You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 5214976 | The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 4b608d0 | If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes. | music | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 5de9ba0 | But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love. | Ayn Rand | ||
| bb01ce7 | He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him. | love | Lisa See | |
| bdf07a7 | I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. | growing-up little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 37db7d3 | In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( , 1853)" | utilitarianism | Charles Dickens | |
| 4986cab | The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. | Frank Herbert | ||
| e0670e4 | The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ea5bed6 | Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3137281 | What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream? | Umberto Eco | ||
| 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 | |
| 7ff1687 | You're crying?" he said. "No, I- " I tore my gaze away. "Just dust. From the path. Simon's that way." I tried to pass him, but he stooped, trying to get a loom of my face. When I wouldn't let him, he caught my chin. I jerked back, flinching at his touch, heart thudding at it, too. I told myself Simon was wrong. I'd never be dumb enough to fall for Derek. But I had. With him so close, my stomach kept doing weird flips. It wasn't fear. It had.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| d78e5d2 | I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one | Albert Camus | ||
| 61102a8 | Hey, do you know what you call a blond with a brain?" I asked, and the continued on the same breath, "a golden retriever." I've heard that one, too," she said, no longer smiling. I'll keep trying." I promised." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ff99fc1 | To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| e946d6d | For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7ddc71f | You'll be so busy with Bridge and what's-his-name that you'll forget all about your English mate, St. Clair." "Ha! So you are English!" I poke him in the stomach. He grabs my hand and we wrestle, laughing. "I claim... no... nationality." | anna-and-the-french-kiss etienne-st-clair | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 77e82c5 | Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another. | James Patterson | ||
| 2850ea9 | Fang was going to kill me. And after I was dead, he would kill me again. | James Patterson | ||
| 30d5b9f | rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS. | acronyms emoticons humor internet-slang | David Levithan | |
| 51bef53 | It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for ou.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 51c5bd3 | But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing." | good-bye | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 4e5ecfa | People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect. | perfection | Colum McCann | |
| e2aab8e | The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0daa8d9 | I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?" | kate magic-strikes | Ilona Andrews | |
| e1b5d16 | If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c1af06b | The best is the enemy of good. | best desires good greed insatiability | Voltaire | |
| 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.. | leo-valdez lost-hero piper-mclean | 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 |