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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f356cd | No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 974c816 | Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. | humor | William Shakespeare | |
| f67182f | A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. | inspirational terminology | William Shakespeare | |
| dde96e0 | Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 06671ea | People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. | Alice Walker | ||
| 411d424 | I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. | life nineteen road years | Sylvia Plath | |
| d55528e | And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 3816ee2 | He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| de2a324 | My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 24797e4 | You probably even dream about me." His gaze lowered to my mouth. I felt my lips part. "I bet you even write my name in your notebooks, over and over again, with a little heart drawn around it." | obsidian | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 499da1b | Wisdom's daughter walks alone. That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers. | athena mark-of-athena prophecy | Rick Riordan | |
| d417797 | Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum... | Rick Riordan | ||
| dc153f7 | Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?" | i-just-lost-it omg-leo | Rick Riordan | |
| 6fa89e4 | Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| f5e5a6d | She is deranged, but so so playful. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 17e67a9 | Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3c42c87 | I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 1ea3c36 | Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows | Tite Kubo | ||
| 4590c4c | What has to do with the price of peas in Persopolis? | peas | Tamora Pierce | |
| a70bf01 | At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe. | bell christmas old young | Chris Van Allsburg | |
| af6ee78 | The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cd3fd57 | Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 596dab9 | You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction." "Ah," said Jace blithely, "that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 24da8c2 | There were some memories, though, that never faded. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ed81036 | I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 49afb12 | And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn't see it, because you'd never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do you think he hated you so much? It was like that form the second we met you. You thought it was amazing that you could see us, and it was, but what was amazing to me was that Jace | isabelle-lightwood jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7ad887a | Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my remory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think if, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happ.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| d6f85bc | When it was finished, the scaled dragon looked around and as the thing spotted V, a growl rippled up to the bleachers, then ended in a snort. "You finished, big guy?" Va called down. "FYI, goalpost over there would work righteous as a toothpick." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3e40f12 | Because I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally...in love with you. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 15b1b20 | In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f7a1414 | Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few. | Joan Aiken | ||
| e87508f | Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd t.. | John Green | ||
| 346e0d7 | A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 00568c5 | The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. | sun | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| f5dd4d7 | Murder your darlings. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| c1aa4a7 | The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1abbe3c | God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 3d99f9d | Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 9082550 | Ah, Evie," she heard him say softly, "I must have a heart, after all...because right now it aches like the devil." "Only your heart?" she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. "Also a few other things," he conceded. "And as my wife, it's your duty to ease all my aches." | evie heart jenner sebastian vincent wallflower wife | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 5554a87 | I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 6640e50 | The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire. "Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says. "Wouldn't dream of it," I say." | humor | Veronica Roth | |
| c946ead | We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors. | Alan Moore | ||
| 1848198 | Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d4ddbb3 | Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. | Robin Hobb |