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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2b66c8e | Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary- not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don't want to." ~Jace Wayland" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| dc2fa49 | Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars | hope inspirational | Cecelia Ahern | |
| b0f1aec | Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dc5fd8f | If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it. | inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational believe-in-yourself inspirational-quote believe life-philosophy | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 4eab512 | Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. | faith death wisdom inspirational blindness | Helen Keller | |
| eee883a | Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. "Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?" "Even then." | jace-wayland magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| d414473 | Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. | loss life love | Haruki Murakami | |
| 082f3ad | Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." | funny humor movie princess | William Goldman | |
| e2a4df6 | The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." | youth poetry old-age | Shel Silverstein | |
| cbb40ea | And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c20052d | You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 7a9fa2f | The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. | christianity religion god yahweh organized-religion | Richard Dawkins | |
| d15533d | Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder. | storm summer | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | |
| 1818165 | On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. | throne | Michel de Montaigne | |
| b0caca8 | I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't.. | friends love | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2570956 | When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it. | love | Ian McEwan | |
| 3681145 | If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f0e9f85 | So what? All writers are lunatics! | writing | Cornelia Funke | |
| e126e92 | I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time. | love bittersweet hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars sweet sad | John Green | |
| 6a4fec3 | I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly. | warlock magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5d0cae8 | It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. | intelligent-action | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 4adbfc5 | Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck. | wings | Rick Riordan | |
| cea89c7 | Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it." | Veronica Roth | ||
| a1eff44 | I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy. | happiness | Neil Gaiman | |
| e51bdd4 | There is always something left to love. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| bb9dfd8 | Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. | mortality | Markus Zusak | |
| 1d90455 | She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?" You'd probably kick my butt." You I'd kick your butt." I brushed the cake off my hands. "When I was at the River Styx, turning invulnerable . . . Nico said I had to concentrate on one thing that kept me anchored to the world, that made me want to stay mortal." Annabeth kept her eyes on the horizon. "Yeah?" Then up on Olympus," I said, "when they wanted to make me a go.. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 0517f8b | Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. | existence risk fear love hurt | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| ebd6b5e | Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one. | young-adult nerdfighters mystery ya | John Green | |
| 13d66cf | For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That's a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that's glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it's safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that's still likely to be the last thing you ever do. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| bdd786a | I did not make a pie," Alec repeated, gesturing expressively with one hand, "for three reasons. One, because I do not have any pie ingredients. Two, because I don't actually know how to make a pie." He paused, clearly waiting. Removing his sword and leaning it against the cave wall, Jace said warily, "And three?" "Because I am not your bitch," Alec said, clearly pleased with himself." | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 89ebd2f | No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here's a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages 1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn't stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5. 3) Sh.. | opportunities excuses opportunity faith confidence motivation success love isnpiration olympics president effort discipline failure | Pablo | |
| 3be0613 | Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. | wisdom sharing foolishness knowledge teaching | Hermann Hesse | |
| 9d30ec9 | No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. | death inspirational | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 2fd1594 | You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. | pride-and-prejudice | Jane Austen | |
| 694701d | Okayyyyy," Isabelle said in a low voice, "When did Brother Zachariah get hot?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| e4eeed2 | The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough. | Colum McCann | ||
| fa28516 | People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They c.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 3898878 | It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. | Harper Lee | ||
| 64e4a96 | We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| bea3405 | A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the fron.. | fate harry-potter fame innocence | J.K. Rowling | |
| 11df77d | She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 019478e | To love and win is the best thing | inspirational | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| a9510af | I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet. | Jack London |