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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8acda3d | she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to t.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e3e7dbd | Paper is more patient than man. | thoughts writing life | Anne Frank | |
| a18857e | We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. | John Fowles | ||
| 2330b80 | Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource. | romance relationship resource bond giving recognition | Bell Hooks | |
| d37ccc8 | The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 9446fd9 | And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. | faith god grace | Anonymous | |
| e36e4d5 | The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. | time intensity focus | Robert Greene | |
| 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 | ||
| a8b0884 | Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 355b951 | It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 9689cda | When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 541211d | Barking spiders! | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 9f42187 | The mage pulled my knife out of his side and looked at it. "Nice knife." The voice was deep but female. I threw my second knife. The blade bit into the mage's chest. Shit. Missed the neck. "Here, have another one." | kate fight sarcasm | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8582483 | There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based." | freedom | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6c0f247 | No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny." | religion gods atheist | Terry Pratchett | |
| 5047099 | High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there. | David Sedaris | ||
| af99b00 | It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window. | mental-illness | Sam Harris | |
| 64bb692 | My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 8879576 | In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos. | youth greek-mythology | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 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." | heart jenner vincent wallflower sebastian evie 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 |