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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6f8298a | The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 147cc98 | If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans? | Peter Singer | ||
| 5837c62 | One must be cunning and wicked in this world. | wicked world | Leo Tolstoy | |
| b941368 | I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face. | intellect intelligence | Margaret Mitchell | |
| bcc55ad | Imagination is the highest kite that can fly. | Lauren Bacall | ||
| b46e2ed | Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave | women | James Salter | |
| 385ad17 | It's the leftover humans. The survivors. They're the ones I can't stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or .. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 657f1dc | What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat? | fanaticism murder religion | Voltaire | |
| 04c5855 | I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity. | intervention invitation learning mistakes | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 21fc6bb | Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody--so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air? | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 33798f7 | It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1809606 | Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5a08153 | When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c7285e3 | What kind of motel sells condoms?" "My favorite kind of motel?" | love lux sex | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 04c771a | By the way," Aiden said casting me a long look that had me totally forgetting the seriousness of our mission. "You look damn good in a Sentinel uniform." A hot flush that had nothing to do with embarrassment spread over me. "So do you." "I know." | alex fluff | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 802a91f | Nico drew his sword. His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl. "Underground," he said. "My favorite place." Underground was Jason's favorite place." | house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 1f9fd36 | Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he'd had a lot of practice. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 894c830 | Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight! | Rick Riordan | ||
| b496704 | Leo smiled nervously. Maybe he and Percy did share something else - a stupid sense of humour. 'Yeah, I bet that would totally be against her sponsorship deal. THOSE ARE NOT THE OFFICIAL SHOES OF THE OLYMPICS! YOU WILL DIE NOW!' Hazel rolled her eyes. 'You're both impossible.' Behind Leo, a thunderous voice shook the ruins: 'YOU WILL DIE NOW! | leo-valdez nike percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 991a743 | Don't cater to stupidity. | Christine Feehan | ||
| afb7ed6 | Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| bc6bda3 | But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain they remain. | pain remain | Haruki Murakami | |
| 5d061de | I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 217682b | Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step.. | life | Haruki Murakami | |
| 94d3c94 | I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my world...over time...little by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I'm a weak person, that I bruise easily, don't you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It's like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off .. | philosophy society weakness | Haruki Murakami | |
| e558da8 | Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| eb64f72 | What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe. | miracles science | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 4a4a886 | One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 304a4e2 | Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7f0bcb5 | You can make it dark, but I can't make it light. | jodi-picoult light my-sister-s-keeper | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3b9b787 | This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 7ff7a12 | There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. | goodness humility inspirational | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| c6b6687 | Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. | life truth young | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 591e303 | Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when y.. | advice alcoholism alochol drinking drowning-one-s-sorrows drugs drunk-driving eating food hangovers martin-amis men responsibility rules scotch single-malt whiskey women | Christopher Hitchens | |
| fca8857 | Richard wrote a diary entry in his head. he began. | life-changing-events life-expectancy | Neil Gaiman | |
| 99f2246 | You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| aca7297 | There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't. | criminals god good-and-bad good-and-evil heaven idealism jesus life-lessons prejudice prejudices religion | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6b8e20e | In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 2fab844 | Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 05116bc | The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 02d48ff | You are the central point about which his world spins. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 5ec742d | Well, I guess I'll see you around. You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad,"said Jace, "since all the ones you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown." | jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6513856 | Father . . . ," Gabriel began. "Father is a worm." Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to. "It's good to see you've come round to our view of things, Gabriel, but this is an unusual way of announcing it." Gideon shot Will a reproachful loo.. | gabriel-lightwood gideon-lightwood will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 33be4a4 | Hello, Uncle Brother Zachariah," James said without opening his eyes. "I would say that I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm sure this is the most excitement you've had all year. Not so lively in the City of Bones, now is it?" "James!" Will snapped. "Don't talk to Jem like that." "As if I am not used to badly behaved Herondales, Brother Zachariah said, in the way Jem had always tried to make peace between Will and the world." | Cassandra Clare |