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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b085b9 | If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 08bf409 | Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 25b1b29 | As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 66bfe38 | A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 51a3b80 | We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 06f45c8 | The Kingdom of God is Within You, | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e2bb078 | Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| f74b798 | When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot. | Markus Zusak | ||
| dd0ec48 | The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 39fb741 | The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my hea.. | scripture | Anonymous | |
| 68352fa | People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could." -- | maturity growing-up | Heather O'Neill | |
| fbaa2bb | I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF. | lgbt | David Levithan | |
| edde394 | And I find myself saying, "It wasn't really about her." And finding it's true. What do you mean?" Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love." | David Levithan | ||
| 482d4d5 | But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. | relationships romance life love platonic-love gay | David Levithan | |
| 6f717cc | sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do. | David Levithan | ||
| 8a91049 | The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others. | Alain de Botton | ||
| e84ccb4 | There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. Y.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1da4d89 | I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2aeaae0 | Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,' he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 88851b0 | I comma square bracket recruit's name square bracket comma do solemnly swear by square bracket recruit's deity of choice square bracket to uphold the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Ankh-Morpork comma serve the public truft comma and defend the fubjects of his ftroke her bracket delete whichever is inappropriate bracket Majefty bracket name of reigning monarch bracket without fear comma favour comma or thought of perfonal fafety semi-col.. | punctuation oath | Terry Pratchett | |
| deb36dd | Crivens! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c0e712b | There were people who called themselves Satanists who made Crowley squirm. It wasn't just the things they did, it was the way they blamed it all on Hell. They'd come up with some stomach-churning idea that no demon could have thought of in a thousand years, some dark and mindless unpleasantness that only a fully-functioning human brain could conceive, then shout "The Devil Made Me Do It" and get the sympathy of the court when the whole poin.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e5f9f16 | Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 88da8b0 | You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you. | Walt Whitman | ||
| d5c7866 | My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 4593df1 | If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. | José Saramago | ||
| 094fb9b | If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. | Jules Verne | ||
| a5976d6 | The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0cde69c | I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| feb0dc9 | The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them -- the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status. | skepticism | Carl Sagan | |
| 218f6dd | If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years | Audre Lorde | ||
| 5cb4559 | Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours. | van-helsing | Bram Stoker | |
| 13eaad9 | Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours. | evolution page147 noremorse | Richard Dawkins | |
| adcb155 | But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. | oscar wilde | ||
| 3bc1c2c | And if we don't have Energy runes, we'll have to get our energy the old-fashioned way." Mark looked puzzled. "Drugs?" "Chocolate," Emma said. "I brought chocolate. Mark, where do you even come up with these things?" Mark smiled crookedly, shrugging one shoulder. "Faerie humor?" | mark-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| d99d034 | But what of you?" Gabriel said, and they were very close now, almost touching. "It is your choice to make now, to stay or return." "I will stay," Cecily said. "I choose the war." Gabriel let out the breath he hadn't realized he was holding. "You will give up your home?" "A drafty old house in Yorkshire?" Cecily said. "This is London." "And give up what is familiar?" "Familiar is dull." "And give up seeing your parents? It is against the Law.. | cecily gabriel-lightworm cecily-herondale gabriel-lightwood clockwork-princess the-infernal-devices gabriel | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8bd7a9c | Jace told me once you'd walk all over my heart in high-heeled boots, and it hasn't stopped me. Isabelle gave a little gasp of startled laughter. "He said that? And you stuck around?" He leaned in toward her ... "I would consider it an honor." -- | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 29f807c | In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over--a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the thought-numbing swiftness of battle. When Alec had wanted to go out hunting alone with Jace, leaving Izzy behind, Jace had spoken up for her: "We need her with us; she's the best there is. Aside from me, of course." She had loved him just for that." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c415659 | Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious. | humor love-life simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| f5a9ad8 | I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta! | Stephen King | ||
| 4dc7e34 | Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. | reading explore | Stephen King | |
| f51b675 | the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket. | man chambers dark-tower deschain gunslinger jake roland stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 136f9e4 | It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 5c19d04 | In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her. | Marcel Proust |