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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c596f1 | The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 768177d | It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy | Rick Riordan | ||
| 41dd50a | It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well." You mean I'll have a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 6eaac3e | He carried so much sadness and loneliness, so much heartache. Yet he put his mission first. He persevered. Reyna respected that. She understood that. She'd never been a touchy-feely person, but she had the strangest desire to drape her cloak over Nico's shoulders and tuck him in. She mentally chided herself. He was a comrade, not her little brother. He wouldn't appreciate the gesture. | reyna | Rick Riordan | |
| 15f9743 | That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on. | dystopia enemy government | Margaret Atwood | |
| 4a4cda7 | They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. | imagination pretend school | Margaret Atwood | |
| d70fd53 | Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me. | Dodie Smith | ||
| fe5e80d | A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone. | morphine refreshing | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 872c893 | the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping...something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with another and draw arrows, stars, tr.. | Italo Calvino | ||
| b002064 | It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 4cb06d3 | How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense"," | Franz Kafka | ||
| 9d40f91 | Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 2f655ed | Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 39e896e | She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b9ddc35 | It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it. | seasonal | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 5309938 | No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 39f6cdb | They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 1b1f01c | The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 78c9b00 | My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1992da9 | I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 4dc834f | The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skirts, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex. There are tyrants, not Muslims. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we shoul.. | human-rights freedom terrorism fundamentalism fanaticism | Salman Rushdie | |
| a5227fd | Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 078ed4c | And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch. | Stephen Fry | ||
| a692b51 | Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5f4d7ba | You're wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you're right. She isn't a phony because she's a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can't talk her out of it. | Truman Capote | ||
| 9e81523 | I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history - true or feigned- with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. | literature books | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5d9a5c9 | When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 34021f1 | For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust an.. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 3aef6f7 | in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of the people all around him--in that moment his whole disgust for humankind rose up again within him and completely soured his triumph, so that he felt not only no joy, but not even the least bit of satisfaction. What he had always longed for--that other people should love him--became at the moment of his achieveme.. | hatred perfumery misanthropy perfume | Patrick Süskind | |
| 5df1541 | he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9dcce7f | You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him." | love-story lovers destiny love teddy-kent soulmate emily soulmates space | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 1fbcb23 | If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8b11f8b | I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4ca58fa | Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c5a507f | I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 530eaff | I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 384dab2 | She was a force of nature. She was a calamity and a commander of immortal warriors of legend. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a7c0646 | Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride." | empire-of-storms rowan pride | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e634061 | She moved like a midnight storm. Whatever training she'd had in Wendlyn, whatever that prince had taught her ... Gods help them all. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 15c970f | What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0e4d2c4 | Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the to kill-though not the to kill. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3d88d9f | Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is wo.. | unjust humane law society rights government | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 4973dc5 | After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. | socialism inspirational inevitability apathy marxism capitalism resistance | Terry Eagleton | |
| 165a805 | Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. | social-science nihilism | Cornel West |