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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 487791d | St. Clair gets a crush on Anna. He's torn between her and Ellie, and he spends so much time running between them that he hardly has time left for Josh. And the more time that Josh spends alone, the more he realizes how alone he actually is. All of his friends will be gone the next year. Josh grows increasingly antagonistic toward school, which makes Rashmi increasingly antagonistic toward him, which makes him increasingly antagonistic towar.. | funny isla | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 87a54f4 | Oh great. Yoda captured us. | the-final-warning maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| f2f8dab | I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra" | John Steinbeck | ||
| 92bf56d | I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a74ae07 | Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on. | Truman Capote | ||
| bad1f13 | Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ecda76a | But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib." A what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy." | science | Douglas Adams | |
| f3f5007 | She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| d9953a1 | But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 9be8d88 | Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 69be1b8 | Tut, tut -- fame clearly isn't everything. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5426d87 | Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 327f6ee | What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 867b7f7 | After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c3975fe | I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii) | self-knowledge self-awareness life love place yourself | Sarah Ban Breathnach | |
| 0132653 | What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work." | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 40db261 | What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? | Libba Bray | ||
| d4f6af1 | What would Tyler Durden do? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b21cf13 | I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 88352c8 | Disappear here | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| a3b4651 | Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. | life speech thought | Hermann Hesse | |
| b57ed45 | Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| dc059a2 | Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it." "Evvy and I have an understanding." She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. "She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 6cab512 | We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 0788e39 | It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down. | Bob Dylan | ||
| 632f227 | People think happiness will simply fall into their laps. You have to aspire to it. And sometimes you have to seize it when it's kicking and screaming. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 229f86b | Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them! | Anne Frank | ||
| 9c335e7 | Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help." -- | life inspirational | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 7e3b266 | But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live | Daniel Quinn | ||
| bce5a3d | I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune. | mitchell | Margaret Mitchell | |
| fb7c8d8 | I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire. | Daphne DuMaurier | ||
| 55a2a01 | When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos | Robert Graves | ||
| 04bbf35 | She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But if there were somewhere a being strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of exaltation and refinement, a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah! How impossible! Besides,.. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| c9bf183 | Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol | ||
| df40f99 | And I -- my head oppressed by horror -- said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so defeated by their pain?" And he to me: "This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have.. | indifference mediocrity | Dante Alighieri | |
| 5676850 | It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark. | revenge poetry | Seamus Heaney | |
| a9f73fa | If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. | religion idolatry atheism | Voltaire | |
| 2173247 | The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy. | tragedy life | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| fe2889e | Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. | racism truth | Harper Lee | |
| 52c5f58 | Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| eab8ce7 | i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me. | David Levithan | ||
| 181f0e2 | there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| b1022a7 | as she drove me through the hills everything screamed inside of me, and I kept saying as we drove along (to myself, of course) fucker, it will pass, everything passes, it's all a joke a joke on you | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2d25736 | By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. | David Mitchell |