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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 9f068d9 | Fuck a zombie! | epithet swearing | Charlaine Harris | |
| 26b2e38 | Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love. | travel | Clive Barker | |
| 039d0f5 | I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that.. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 8894dd4 | Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. | morality scandal | Oscar Wilde | |
| a51cd51 | Magnus called me and asked me to come and see you. He tried to reach you, but he couldn't. He wants you to put him in touch with the Praetor Lupus." "Put him in touch with..." Jordan shook his head. "You can't just call the Praetor. It's not like 1-800-WEREWOLF." -- | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 07e6763 | Of course it's not okay with me, I'm a teenage boy. As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happenedd since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru" - Jace" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 052a8a5 | I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 624587e | No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 08690a0 | Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff? | Stephen King | ||
| fa2ba8b | Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. | inspirational mythology | Joseph Campbell | |
| 923d3f5 | I can smell the sex coming off you right now. I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you?" "Now, we can be civilized and wait until we get home. Or we can get down to it right here. Either way, I'm dying to come inside of you again, and you're not going to say no." - Wrath to Beth" -- | black-dagger-brotherhood j-r-ward wrath dark-lover | J.R. Ward | |
| 084fc17 | If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two. | Marcel Proust | ||
| d88d478 | And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none. | John Green | ||
| 2f0a858 | I lean in this time, and she doesn't turn away. It's cold, and our lips are dry, noses a little wet, foreheads sweaty beneath wool hats. I can't touch her face, even though I want to, because I'm wearing gloves. But God, when her lips come apart, everything turns warm and her sugar sweet breath is in my mouth, and I probably taste like hot dogs but I don't care. She kisses like a sweet devouring, and I don't know where to touch her because .. | John Green | ||
| 7b25107 | Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 15a7f56 | All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung. | responsibility | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| b5658fe | Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice." | tobias-eaton the-transfer four veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 7153354 | Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 4a69eef | Are you a maid, Penny?" She blushed. "Yes. Of course. Who would have -" "Stay that way. Love is madness, and lust is poison." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0365f93 | Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 32e5da4 | Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked. | myranda-royce | George R.R. Martin | |
| 848759a | Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be. | Rob Bell | ||
| 01d4639 | Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of ot.. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2f875a1 | Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 8ecad95 | You are more dangerous than daybreak. | tana | Holly Black | |
| 980a025 | If you feel far from God, guess who moved? | inspirational christy miller | Robin Jones Gunn | |
| b9d05fa | The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. | inspirational | Amelia Earhart | |
| 6746e8d | Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything. | inspirational courtesy | Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib A.S | |
| 84cd9b9 | So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for? | being-different black-butler kuroshitsuji inspirational | Yana Toboso | |
| bf47a8d | So, have we solved the secret of happiness | inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| 45f7c91 | No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. | persistence love inspirational endurance labor resilience christmas practice | Greg Kincaid | |
| 459bff7 | So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you going to tell me? "Yes.Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be greatful." That's it? "For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. "That's it." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 41334be | We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? | morrie tuesdays with | Mitch Albom | |
| e4cc0c6 | May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of op.. | reason science hope light-of-science monkish freedom-of-opinion chains ignorance superstition | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 313a1ba | Dee loves it here. Before you came, she spent most of her days here." To Daemon, my arrival was the beginning of the end. The apocalypse. Kat-mageddon. "You know, I'm not going to get your sister in trouble." "We'll see." | funny daemon katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 2cc5e56 | Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn't been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close. | will-solace nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| 72c31d8 | Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8f937fe | Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River. Roarke: Chattahoochee Eve: What's the difference? Roarke: Quite a bit, I'd think. | romance mystery suspense | J.D. Robb | |
| f21289c | What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 398988c | Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| cab35cf | We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect. | Robert Jordan |