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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2868a88 | A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 .. | infatuation love | 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.. | alienation kindness loneliness | David Foster Wallace | |
| f1eba8e | There is a reason God limits man's days. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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? | disbelief fairy | Terry Pratchett | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| c7dfc38 | A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone. | purpose wisdom | 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." | frank-zhang humor percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena | 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 | |
| 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. | prophetic wisdom writing | 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. | leave miss place starting-point travel | Jodi Picoult | |
| 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. | inspirational life love thelema | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 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 |