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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f9f5eab | Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 5c41f33 | Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. | gods humor metaphor no-mercy old-testament | Joseph Campbell | |
| 041024b | I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella." | bdb bella j-r-ward love zsadist | J.R. Ward | |
| 6fafc1c | You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you. | john phurry | J.R. Ward | |
| 5962b87 | There was a loud scraping noise as five chairs slid backward. The men rose as a unit. And started coming for her. She looked to the faces of the two she knew, but their grave expressions weren't encouraging. And then the knives came out. With a metallic whoosh, five black daggers were unsheathed. She backed up frantically, hands in front of herself. She slammed into a wall and was about to scream for Wrath when the men dropped down on bende.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 02e4523 | Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North Carolina, their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom of a Waffle House just off the interstate. My parents have sacrificed so much for this dream! And that is w.. | cheerleaders immigration sex virginity | John Green | |
| 8fdfd23 | Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind. | John Green | ||
| 7d39b30 | The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God. | John Piper | ||
| b26f4a8 | It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 80bb8af | Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace. | muerte | Juan Rulfo | |
| 17fd296 | Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.) | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 15c8cef | You know," she said dreamily, passing over his question, "you're not nearly as handsome as Lord St.Vincent." "There's a surprise," he said dryly. "But for some reason," she continued, "I never want to kiss him the way I do you." It was a good thing that she had closed her eyes, for if she had seen his expression, she might not have continued. "There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking t.. | humor romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 2120e52 | It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey a.. | revolution shock silence | Alan Moore & David Lloyd | |
| 31b93c7 | Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he was actually saying something that sounded like it might be a prelude to asking me out - well, I nearly threw up. I mean it. I felt really sick, but in a good way. | Meg Cabot | ||
| a570a32 | Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 7ff15ac | No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. | conscience guilt stefan-zweig | Stefan Zweig | |
| c46e59b | Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them. | pretty-things | Holly Black | |
| 02d061f | She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying. | lying | Holly Black | |
| 2effc70 | My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery. | hector-ricardo inspirational | Pittacus Lore | |
| 8026b43 | Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming | future inspirational life | David Bowie | |
| f99c3ea | Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide. | happyquotes hope inspirational inspirationalquotes inspired instadaily instaquote lovequotes pinquotes poems poetry quote quoteoftheday quotes relationships rmdrake sadquotes sayings spokenword tattoo typewriter vsco writer writing | robert m drake | |
| 9a0ea41 | Blessed are the weird people | art creative inspirational poets writers writing-life | Jacob Nordby | |
| 9b7d170 | Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house | 1757 churches inspirational lighthouse | Benjamin Franklin | |
| abefe7a | Though we tremble before uncertain future | feminism inspirational mestiza poetry | Gloria Anzaldúa | |
| c173397 | Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. | education growing growth inspirational inspirational-quotes inspiring learning learning-process life life-and-living school-of-life teachings wealth wisdom wisdom-quotes | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 9454bbb | I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. | cosmos inspirational purpose r-j-anderson ultraviolet | R.J. Anderson | |
| 83cb948 | Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonde.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| b9791d8 | The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. | introspective | Dean Koontz | |
| 0b8eea8 | What people consider precious is different for everybody. | manga nana | Ai Yazawa | |
| 029ee43 | Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. | paraphrased | Chinua Achebe | |
| 0705104 | You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness. | love | E.M. Forster | |
| ddf0476 | That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway... | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3dafec7 | Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person. | person slow-down the-last-song | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 3d4c1fa | Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past you. Imagine the world more crowded and desperate every century. Imagine changing religions, homes, diets, careers, until none of them have any real value.Imagine traveling the world until you're bored with every square inch. Imagine your emotions, your loves and hates and rivalries and victories, played .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ed61b78 | Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother. | family mother | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| f5eaac9 | The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish. | insight life life-lessons living motivation thought-provoking | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 1e5ef2e | I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 3602120 | The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cadf404 | If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier. | insanity intellectual self-help | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8842a55 | She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves. | passion | Hermann Hesse | |
| fcc33f2 | Hold on, the riders told the world. Hold on. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 40ee41d | i am a little church(no great cathedral) far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities --i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest, i am not sorry when sun and rain make april my life is the life of the reaper and the sower; my prayers are prayers of earth's own clumsily striving (finding and losing and laughing and crying)children whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness around me surges a miracle of unceasing birth an.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| cba3636 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9fc2d82 | I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one. | sad | Miranda July |