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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8e3306e | You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 5d283ce | When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right. | murtagh | Christopher Paolini | |
| 298957f | The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| df90912 | So who gave him his name?" I asked. "Kerrick," Belen answered. Not who I'd expect. "Why 'Flea'?" A full-out grin spread across Flea's face. "Cause I'm fast and hard to catch." "Because he's a pest and hard to squash," Belen said. "Because he jumps about three feet in the air when you scare him," Loren added. "Because he's annoying and makes us itch with impatience," Quain said. "Thanks, guys. I love you too." Flea made exaggerated kissing n.. | touch-of-power belen flea maria-v-snyder loren quain | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 20563fc | Kill him before he makes you love him. | Holly Black | ||
| c9712fd | I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 895bcf0 | There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. | stars reality night city | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 42483df | Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl | equality feminism inspirational gender-roles | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| b209b60 | In the end, everything is a gag. | humor inspirational | Charlie Chaplin | |
| b30acfc | Truth builds trust. | relationships honesty inspirational customer-service business | Marilyn Suttle | |
| d4c4ff4 | The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle. | inspirational | Anaïs Nin | |
| ac3bd32 | A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. | soothing imagination dreams strength heart inspirational imaginary-friend richelle richelle-goodrich healing pretending soul | Richelle E. Goodrich | |
| c85b587 | It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. | inspirational | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| f1eba8e | There is a reason God limits man's days. | Mitch Albom | ||
| a6ee370 | My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7775599 | What doesn't kill us makes us funnier. | paraphrased stories | Marian Keyes | |
| 8be4916 | Better?" I went from holding her hand to hugging her. "Lindy, you loved me when I wasn't even human. You kissed me when I had no lips. You saw what was deep down inside me when I wasn't even sure about it myself. Believe me, there's no way I could do better. I think you're perfect." | Alex Flinn | ||
| 4e24d3d | Is this what you do with your spare time?" he asked me, ignoring his sister. "What--are you deciding to talk to me now?" Smiling tightly, I grabbed a handful of mulch and dumped it. Rinse and repeat. "Yeah, it's kind of a hobby. What's yours? Kicking puppies?" | humour katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| c7dfc38 | A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone. | wisdom purpose | Rick Riordan | |
| 961d14d | Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. "A trap?" "Probably," Frank said. "She's not mortal," Hedge said, sniffing the air. "Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus." "No doubt," Percy agreed. "Awesome." Hedge grinned. "Let's go." | humor percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena frank-zhang the-heroes-of-olympus | Rick Riordan | |
| cdb28ac | As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws. | history survival | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 1a11e52 | People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. | Henry Miller | ||
| fdf660c | Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| caa06c7 | I have no mission. No one has. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f9de5fe | Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. | writing wisdom prophetic | Milan Kundera | |
| df0196b | People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 351143b | Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d953904 | Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. | travel starting-point place leave miss | Jodi Picoult | |
| c62306b | No person ever died that had a family. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 60319ac | We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire. | Saul Bellow | ||
| ffef677 | And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat...I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think mayb.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| b1f918e | You don't call Acheron 'babe.' (Valerius) You don't call Acheron 'babe' because...well, that's just sick. But I call him 'babe' all the time. (Tabitha) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 452e0ff | Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 7397778 | All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 27488f8 | Nathan nods. "Have a good time. Don't do anything I wouldn't do." I hear Andy as I'm walking out the front door. "Honey, that threat doesn't work when you're gay." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 68db654 | I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out." Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy. Dang, I'm good." | humor maxride maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 90a9d2f | The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed here. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart, but really with it, and in it. | Emily Brontë | ||
| 2868a88 | A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 2d08dc3 | For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. | evenstar-luthien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 51e9508 | Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off). | inspirational | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 229784b | Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| cd0af0d | The -- the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . ." "Ah, yes. How much did you relay to Lord Voldemort?" "Everything -- everything I heard! That is why -- it is for that reason -- he thinks it means Lily Evans!" "The prophecy did not refer to a woman. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July --" "You know what I mean! He thinks it means her son, he is going to hunt her down -- kill them all --" "If she means so much to you, su.. | anguish voldemort lily-evans severus-snape prophecy disgust | J.K. Rowling | |
| c7d6d8a | What is the difference, Potter, between monkshood and wolfsbane?" At this, Hermione stood up, her hand stretching towards the dungeon ceiling. I don't know," said Harry quietly. "I think Hermione does, though, why don't you try asking her?" A few people laughed; Harry caught sight of Seamus's eye and Seamus winked. Snape, however, was not pleased. Sit down," he snapped at Hermione. "For your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make .. | severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| a1b3364 | I find people confusing. | Mark Haddon |