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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 42feb08 | My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 864f88f | Today is declared an unscheduled holiday. | Lois Lowry | ||
| da10fc2 | I want to ask him if it's possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way? | Libba Bray | ||
| b33e908 | The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8f4d632 | What a shame that the current owner of the Vaults, a former underling of Rourke Farran and a dealer of flesh and opiates, had accidentally run into her knives. Repeatedly. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e13f055 | Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1146bff | Look, it's not you. It's , and my inability to dig dirty dudes. | malkom | Kresley Cole | |
| 2e711a7 | They desecrate Riora's sacred temple! She will be enraged." "Oh, gods, look at the marble. We are all beyond doomed." "Somebody put a plant in front of it!" | humour | Kresley Cole | |
| 7f03409 | I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn't even feel it. And yet I believe you'll be sensible of a little gap. But you'd clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose.. | life love | Vita Sackville-West | |
| 6701a62 | Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 46a084b | I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 65013fc | That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. | Willa Cather | ||
| 5e15eac | Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?" | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5b2ea4a | Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 25c5424 | One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man. | new-beginnings | George Eliot | |
| cf952be | I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste. | Voltaire | ||
| 22f1131 | My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here's how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man's chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homonculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I .. | love infatuation | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 6834909 | If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA's state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts [...] That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. Then that most nonaddicted adult civilians have already absorbed and accepted this fact, often rather early on [...] That sleeping can be.. | loneliness kindness alienation | David Foster Wallace | |
| bb28138 | Tikkun olam." Exactly. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job - everyone's job - is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again." And you believe that?" I guess I do. I mean, I don't know how the world broke. And I don't know if there's a God who can help us fix it. But the fact that the world is broken - I absolutely believe that. Just look around .. | David Levithan | ||
| 1e5400f | Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis | Thomas Harris | ||
| 6f184af | This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole | William Blake | ||
| 128e765 | I'm welding the bimbo room shut. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b8c6cec | Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind . . . I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 99a495e | Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. | life love inspirational thelema | Augustine of Hippo | |
| aa9b0a3 | WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7788c62 | She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it. | school | Terry Pratchett | |
| a3c2d32 | A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children pushed the wicked witch into her own oven...Stories like this stopped people thinking properly, she was sure. She'd read that one and thought, Excuse me? | fairy disbelief | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0d11b0c | This near enough? Whatcha gonna do, doll girl? Cry all over me?" Claire hid her eyes as the biker reached out for Eve with one tattooed hand. No," Eve said breathlessly. "I'm going to let my boyfriend beat the crap out of you." There was a dull of wood meeting flesh, and a howl. Then another, much harder , and a crash as a body hit the floor. The biker was down. Claire stared at him in disbelief, then looked past him, to the figure stand.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 0da90e3 | Expecting anybody else?' Shane asked Eve. 'Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?' 'Screw you, Collins. | Rachel Caine | ||
| de88a76 | This near enough? Whatcha gonna do, doll girl? Cry all over me?" Claire hid her eyes as the biker reached out for Eve with one tattooed hand. No," Eve said breathlessly. "I'm going to let my boyfriend beat the crap out of you." There was a dull of wood meeting flesh, and a howl. Then another, much harder , and a crash as a body hit the floor. The biker was down. Claire stared at him in disbelief, then looked past him, to the figure stand.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| e7843a3 | The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a new version of the not-entirely-false model, imagine the first interpreter as a foreign correspondent, reporting from the world. The world in this case means everything out- or inside our bodies, including serotonin levels in the brain. The second interpreter is a news analyst, who writes op-ed pieces. They read each other's work. One needs .. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 49db889 | We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| b509045 | A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry. | merry | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 4e3c459 | I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 8d4cd18 | Yesterday, I cried. I came home, went straight to my room, sat on the edge of my bed, kicked off my shoes, unhooked my bra, and I had myself a good cry. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 8dc1563 | No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 2207e76 | He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1a82e6a | He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 7aa408c | And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow... | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a2bf8f1 | You can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8f89d52 | When Will says 'enterprising', he means 'morally deficient.'" "No, I mean enterprising," said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done." | the-infernal-devices will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9c4ff62 | Gimme hate, Lord," he whimpered. "I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it...It's too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain't it heavy? Jesus? Ain't love heavy?" | Toni Morrison | ||
| cf018c1 | You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c5c5dc1 | You're nothing like your sister," he tells me. "She meant a lot to me, okay? It's true. But the things I like about you have nothing to do with her. You - you are so strong and stubborn it drives me crazy. You're the one going through all this and you still put Laney first every time, instead of throwing yourself the pity party we both know you deserve. You call me out on my shit, and I like that, because sometimes I need someone to call me.. | Hannah Harrington |