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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2bfec88 | If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 098a2be | You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. | Richard Bach | ||
| 1c55e0c | We can't hold hands-- Someone might see. Won't you please Hold toes with me? | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 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 | |
| 13490ef | She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse. | heartache prayer sorrow | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 276bf69 | When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone. | Albert Camus | ||
| 06bd1f6 | Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell. | secrets sharing-secrets | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 148168b | Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f94eb2c | Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution. | character maturity scars | Erin McCarthy | |
| e9eb62d | The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 7500894 | Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 46c0833 | The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| bcffe44 | Where's your hat?" He squints at me. "Mer? Is that you? Do I need my scarf? Will it be cold, Mummy?" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 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. | maximum-ride the-final-warning | James Patterson | |
| 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 | ||
| 7f56cbf | The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. | majority-view sanity | Erich Fromm | |
| 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. | poetry revenge | Seamus Heaney | |
| a9f73fa | If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. | atheism idolatry religion | 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. | life tragedy | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 06a0f39 | The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ca8fd69 | Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c8600cd | The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. | story | Orson Scott Card | |
| 90337f5 | But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly. | THOMAS JEFFERSON | ||
| d34b337 | Alex fainted-" "I didn't faint," I grumbled, feeling my cheeks flush. Aiden's lip curved up on one side. "Okay. She was suddenly not walking or talking anymore..." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b920509 | There's truths you have to grow into. | maturity | H.G. Wells | |
| c291686 | No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon | Rick Riordan | ||
| db93b65 | The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey. A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!' A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol. | humour | Rick Riordan | |
| a3641d0 | But Grover's voice was already growing fainter. 'Sweet dreams. Don't let me die! | Rick Riordan |