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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 25aac50 | When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self.. | happiness self-indulgence | Tom Robbins | |
| b63a09e | You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it." | Tom Robbins | ||
| 463c708 | Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances? Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen: Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages, we have worn masks of fruit and flowers in order to conceal from ourselves the meaty essence of our humanity. We appreciate the sexual attractant of the rose, the ripeness of the orange, more than we honor our own ripe carnality. Now today we want to perfume our cities, as well; to replace their stinging fumes of distur.. | humor senses | Tom Robbins | |
| 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. | louisa-may-alcott little-women growing-up | 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 | ||
| 9b3d1f4 | people can die of mere imagination | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 2961107 | It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 87097c4 | Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 251db6e | The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. | love reasons men-and-women | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 6713843 | No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| d1a691f | If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! | Lois Lowry | ||
| 0678747 | Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 5bb8305 | You always kill the one you love. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 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 | ||
| f27e3bc | Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2e2c254 | You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom. | life mindfulness peace | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 771a072 | But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 8c9d9fc | Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. | touch | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 075dd9a | Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice. | Anne Frank | ||
| a3664b2 | It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. | nature humanity humor | Daniel Quinn | |
| c1af06b | The best is the enemy of good. | good greed insatiability desires best | Voltaire | |
| 30d5b9f | rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS. | humor acronyms emoticons 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 |