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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5eaacb | There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 035614d | And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws. | Maurice Sendak | ||
| 35256a8 | You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me." | you | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 153eddf | When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. | bible proverbs | Anonymous | |
| 211834d | Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated | Robert Greene | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| a692b51 | Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets. | Tom Robbins | ||
| e8e46fc | It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall? | falling | Neil Gaiman | |
| 12e15fc | The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 1f58735 | Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b0305ce | My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. | gender-stereotypes | Oscar Wilde | |
| f03e55d | I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me. | absurdist | Oscar Wilde | |
| 3c758cb | And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt. It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly Jessamine lowered her hand from her mouth, her face still very pale. "Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me?" | clockwork-angel jessamine | Cassandra Clare | |
| f5dab76 | Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me?" | sebastian-verlac surprise | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3d7afcb | It was Eric's voice not Simon's, on the recorded message. "Ladies, ladies " he said. Though it was the millionth time she'd heard the recording, Clary couldn't help rolling her eyes. "If you've reached this message that means our boy Simon is out partying. But please don't fight among yourselves. There's always enough Simon to go around." There was a muffled yell, some laughter, and then the long sound of the beep." | city-of-glass-outtake eric mortal-instruments simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9b00ef8 | He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears. | jem-carstairs tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| f6f88e8 | The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 3c702c7 | Butch nodded, finding as comfortable a bite as he could on the leather. He braced himself as V lifted an arm. Except when his roommate's palm landed on his bare chest all he felt was a warm weight. Butch frowned. This was it? This was fucking it? Scaring the shit out of Marissa for no good- He looked down, pissed off. Oh, wrong hand. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 18c4ebf | That is one fine female, true?" V said. There was a low, affirmative grumble. "And someone you do not want to mess with," the brother continued. "Man, you should have seen her when we came into that barn. She was standing over his body, ready to take the cop and me on with her bare hands if she had to. Like Wrath was her cub, you feel me?" "Wonder if she has a sister?" Rhage asked. Phury laughed. "You wouldn't know what to do with yourself .. | dark-lover | J.R. Ward | |
| 07b7a1a | And second, I don't think there's much of a market for your particular brand of psychology." "So not true." "Butch, you and I just beat the crap out of each other." "You started it. And actually, it would be perfect for Spike TV. UFC meets Oprah. God, I'm brilliant." "Keep telling yourself that. -Butch and V" | butch-vishous jr-ward | J.R. Ward | |
| 4b509cd | Writing does not resurrect. It buries. | John Green | ||
| 61ecf4e | Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| dc27cd2 | Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I'll save you too. | Zelda Fitzgerald | ||
| 418ac4b | Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone. | loneliness | Mervyn Peake | |
| 61ccc84 | Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. | life | Lisa Kleypas | |
| c3b1645 | I'll be your family now." ~ Tobis 'Four" | four-tobias insurgent love tris | Veronica Roth | |
| 79f70fe | There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 70b5d68 | Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter. Because Jack is going to leave her one day. i know he will. He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting. | loyalty | Melissa de la Cruz |