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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 86ed420 | The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our n.. | god love selflessness | C.S. Lewis | |
| 470e28e | I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it... | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 7b3a467 | If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by, With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 6027dea | Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 56de08d | The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f4a09ed | As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them | individuality imitation difference | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 886116b | In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we stru.. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 3c0924d | My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| dbce5c7 | You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d8578b1 | They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." | paranoid dialogue cynical | Iain M. Banks | |
| 978c978 | It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| b4a3038 | Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 2cbf95b | We deserve each other, Luis ... and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me." He steps closer, but hesitates. "If I do, mi chava, I can't promise I'll be able to let you go." | nikki luis | Simone Elkeles | |
| b9f18d6 | Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path .. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| e99ba16 | Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. | shakespeare good-name standing libel reputation slander value society theft values | William Shakespeare | |
| 33b17c9 | What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| af3c059 | I choose you, Max. -Fang | James Patterson | ||
| e0910dd | Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind. | Maya Angelou | ||
| a0204c8 | Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 732784e | If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. | values | Tom Robbins | |
| 3cb0b6a | Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You're not ready for it, but if you're lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you'd planned. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 5c6e1f8 | Everything I know, I learned from dogs. | dogs learning | Nora Roberts | |
| b7b976e | But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind | Jack London | ||
| 755e01e | Life is made of so many partings welded together | Charles Dickens | ||
| 94aecd7 | At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| cc1c44d | All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others. | interdependence worth | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b5ed511 | What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing--permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our o.. | war united-states | Howard Zinn | |
| 84f5f78 | if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest. | Plato | ||
| 43111ce | There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mighti.. | Yann Martel | ||
| fb63a80 | Will you stay with me?" "Until the very end." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9008f22 | I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent. The indifference is the deadweight of history. The indifference operates with great power on history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates. It is fate, that which cannot be counted on. It twists pro.. | Antonio Gramsci | ||
| 4e32c5c | The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only -- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels. | woods | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 8d17ba3 | So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs. | irony | Libba Bray | |
| 0aaf331 | It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f8d3bbd | Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 6ead1ed | Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard-- very mean, or very conceited and all-- and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| cc7fb94 | I do like him. I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.... .... Listen, don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else." Franny made her voice stop. It sounded to her caviling and bitchy, and she felt a wave of self-hatred that, quite literally, made her forehead begin to perspire again. .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e8974a5 | I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. | holden | J.D. Salinger | |
| 3584533 | He'd almost told the princess that she could keep Hellas's Horse, but there was something to be said about the prospect of charging down Morath foot soldiers atop a horse named Butterfly. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a6da242 | Aelin looked at Chaol and Dorian and sobbed. Opened her arms to them, and wept as they held each other. "I love you both," she whispered. "And no matter what may happen, no matter how far we may be, that will never change." | chaol-westfall throne-of-glass kingdom-of-ash dorian-havilliard | Sarah J. Maas | |
| fae1cb8 | Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. "Auugghh!" he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?" "If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try." -- | medicine | Tamora Pierce | |
| 2e6fd0b | Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. | happiness society judgement movies eyes | Katherine Dunn | |
| 74d080d | I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1a71e3b | You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are. | Sidney Sheldon |