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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0fb8a88 | I knew we'd wear them down,' Eve said. 'After all, we really are amazingly cool.' And now it was Eve's turn for the high five with Shane. 'For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.' 'Which one are you?' Shane asked. She flipped him off. 'Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 825d936 | It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. | foundation sf | Isaac Asimov | |
| f54793a | He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. | Ayn Rand | ||
| a8602e5 | She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 80761e1 | There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. | humorous | Douglas Adams | |
| d7cd788 | It's your time to live, don't mess it up. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 31a1663 | Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v. | corruption media television | Jim Morrison | |
| 029fca7 | My Name "I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have a regular name. My name depends on you. Just call me whatever is in your mind. If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name. Perhaps it was raining very hard. That is my name. Or somebody wanted you to do something. You did it. Then they told you w.. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 61d68ed | She is written in a foreign tongue. | Henry James | ||
| dbb843a | Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 2113acc | Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day | love | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 3e807fb | Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself. | fantasy identity | Garth Nix | |
| b13f56b | I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. | David Levithan | ||
| d3fbec3 | people diminish me; the longer I sit and listen to them the more empty I feel but I don't get the idea that they feel empty, I feel that they enjoy the sound from their mouths. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| a68e7bc | I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith. | fate | Emily Giffin | |
| 41e5343 | Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| aed2af4 | Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 14240d7 | I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?" | kate magic-bleeds praise saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| 5f51a0b | Jon Spiro had not hired Pex and Chips for their debating sills. In the job interview, they had only been set one task. A hundred applicants were handed a walnut and asked to smash it however they could. Only two succeeded. Pex had shouted at the walnut for a few minutes, then flattened it between his giant palms. Chips had opted for a more controversial method. He placed the walnut on the table, grabbed is interviewer by the ponytail, and u.. | eoin-colfer | Eoin Colfer | |
| b4d4263 | There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 85e0894 | This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e607f08 | Let me list for you some of the many ways in which you might be afraid to live a more creative life: You're afraid you have no talent. You're afraid you'll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or misunderstood or--worst of all--ignored. You're afraid there's no market for your creativity, and therefore no point in pursuing it. You're afraid somebody else already did it better. You're afraid everybody else already did it better. You're afr.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0d5aeed | Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. To have issues with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time--everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will as.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 39987af | I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7254e66 | f~ Hrtn m 'n ykwn lrjl ftw@ wm 'n yu`dW qfh llSf` | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 42c2cd6 | In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to gr.. | dark high joy kingsolver life love rebirth taught tide times tucson | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 710e1d5 | Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury. | Kami Garcia | ||
| 49dc140 | What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 81c440c | This car sucks." "It was your idea. I, on the other hand, think this car if perfect size. But that might be because I'm not the size of a mountain." He snickered. "You're the size of a little, itty bitty doll." "If you say a vacant doll, I will hurt you." I wound the necklace chain around my fingers. "Got that?" "Yes, ma'am." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4627c6b | I feel it in here," she said, placing her hand against her chest and then against her stomach, "and here. It's like there's not enough air or room inside me. That I may... burst out of my skin or drown in it, and that wouldn't be a bad thing. I don't know why I feel this way, but I always have... and will." She tipped her chin up and her entire face was a rosy color. "It's you. I... I love you." | alex | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| fd8972c | So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing. | Rick Riordan | ||
| fedf5dc | Once I saw Desjardins' house, I hated him even more. It was a huge mansion on the other side of the Tuileries, on the rue des Pyramids. "Pyramids Road?" Sadie said. "Obvious, much?" "Maybe he couldn't find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street," I suggested." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3d89ef6 | Akmon pulled a ratchet wrench from the tool belt and spun it like a noisemaker. "Oh, very nice! I'm definitely keeping this! Thanks, Blue Bottom!" Leo glanced down. His pants had slipped around his ankles again, revealing his blue undershorts. "That's it!" he shouted. "My stuff. Now. Or I'll show you how funny a flaming dwarf is." His hands caught fire." | humor leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 737545b | Facinating." He broke into a wide grin. "I've discovered something, Khufu. This is not Memphis, Egypt." Khufu gave me a sideways look, and I could swear his expression meant, Duh. "I've also discovered a new form of magic called blues music," the man continued. "And barbecue. Yes, you must try barbecue." | Rick Riordan | ||
| b1b642e | I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself. | Dodie Smith | ||
| ddf5be0 | When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. | fear oppression repression | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 1bf50d0 | It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| dade136 | Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bb9e7a4 | Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c1079a8 | I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0f28f77 | I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans. | Roald Dahl | ||
| ad78436 | Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it? | C.S. Lewis | ||
| f3462c0 | The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a80b214 | I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. | self-indulgence wallowing | Gabriel García Márquez |