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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a2cb713 | One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 9dc0289 | You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a757bf5 | We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don't live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn't shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ce8833d | Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5c9a821 | I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words. | William Faulkner | ||
| 71cd389 | The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. | object beautiful question artist creation | James Joyce | |
| f069d80 | To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher. | James Joyce | ||
| 1c1ac42 | There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3ec1986 | The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 4f95f51 | They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| f665de4 | Derek looked around, like he was searching for something to use. Then he stripped off his shirt. I tried not to look away. Not that he looked bad without his shirt. The opposite, actually, which is why...Let's just say friends are really better when they're fully clothed. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| dd4fd0f | Speaking of which, would you like to explain to me how you're alive | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ec5a1e2 | It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 970ddde | Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I've had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesn't mean there's less for me. In fact, I know that there isn't even a pie, that there's plenty to go around, enough food .. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 849f268 | Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,-- For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. | shakespeare witches witch | William Shakespeare | |
| fe4b85e | How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 020e015 | Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise." | marriage relationships love | Gary Chapman | |
| 9098583 | I love you: You imagine hearing the words from someone not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, someone you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 0e2dc50 | The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be." | dune growing-up | Frank Herbert | |
| 4237528 | We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 2906d18 | If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a.. | funny humor invention-of-golf hobbits | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e74984e | We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 5e6e53d | The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! It 's a ghost!" Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. numbers exist only in the mind. I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. it's that only that gets me. science is on.. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 4ed6ba8 | You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3df67ac | Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| bec17d0 | Well, you can't break an unbreakable vow," said Ron. "I figured that out myself, funnily enough." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5d32055 | Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. | mystery the-unknown | Mark Haddon | |
| 073238c | If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f6b374f | There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn't. I failed myself. | Libba Bray | ||
| 241d6e3 | Sorry, mom. Sorry, God. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 86e992c | Some stories, you use up. Others use you up. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4f8627a | The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon. | responsibility world happiness | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8aba768 | God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8d98dfb | Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4a5e6c3 | Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. | paraphrased | Amy Sedaris | |
| 10314e3 | How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8cb6095 | Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 2fd295a | Dorian, we get to come back from this loss - from this darkness. We get to come back, and I came back for you. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1667f32 | It is a new world, and we must decide how we are to end this old one and begin it anew. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c71696e | They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 57fca4c | A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 4a0869e | Please put your penises away, gentlemen. Dinner is procured. By a woman. | immortals-after-dark | Kresley Cole | |
| 1f427bb | When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. | death heart grave | Virginia Woolf | |
| f2a054e | Life stand still here. | Virginia Woolf |