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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 09b55b2 | God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greate.. | humanity spiritual | Albert Camus | |
| 5dcd959 | I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 3bca083 | And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. Once, in a sunset-ending street of Beardsley, she turned to little Eva Rosen (I was taking both nymphets to a concert and walking behind them so close as almost to touch them with my person), she turned to Eva, and so very serenely and seriously, in answer to something the other had said about its being better to die than hear Milton Pinski; .. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| e25d919 | Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much. | alan-paton cry-the-beloved-country south-africa | Alan Paton | |
| d0180bb | One of the new girls followed me in and said she thinks Toph is an insensitive douchebag motherhumping assclown, and that I shouldn't let him get to me. Which was sweet, but didn't really help. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 357c8ce | Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true. | James Patterson | ||
| 79399af | There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 5f1e25e | Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind | Dr. Seuss | ||
| be152bd | Sure, cried the tenant men,but it's our land...We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours....That's what makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it." "We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't like a man." "Yes, but the bank is only made of men." "No, you're wrong there--quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 81fdbd3 | Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. | goodbye thoughtful | John Steinbeck | |
| b0a20d4 | There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7083023 | To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. | hœderer | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| bfb2a3b | Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make the science of your tradition!" | society | Frank Herbert | |
| bdff571 | She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate. | Edith Wharton | ||
| a202ff3 | In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to fo.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 846ecff | No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. | the-hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0358a63 | If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. | fiction love truth jodi-picoult filled plain-truth say okay tell empty speak mystery drama novel | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7a30302 | All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6d6a405 | Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f4432b3 | Are you trying to weasel out of showing us any of this stuff?' said Zacharias Smith. 'Here's an idea,' said Ron loudly, 'why don't you shut your mouth?' 'Well, we've all turned up to learn from him, and now he's telling us he can't really do any of it,' he said. 'That's not what he said,' said Fred Weasley. 'Would you like us to clean out your ears for you?' inquired George, pulling a long and lethal-looking metal instrument from inside.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| dab8a69 | Your love is like the wind...you cant see it, but you can feel it... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 06f0cd0 | I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come. | nights-in-rodanthe nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 7bff463 | Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets? | anne-of-green-gables violets | L.M. Montgomery | |
| cf308f3 | Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 9a4ffae | The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 13351ff | How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 201d4c0 | Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d603bd8 | There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| a83a234 | It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. | inspirational networking | Dan Simmons | |
| 486b85d | Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e8d3bda | Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0eab637 | You must always know what it is that you want. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 485fbf0 | In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today. | injustice | Paulo Coelho | |
| 6e2406b | Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge. | ellis disturbing nihilism | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 5dd53a7 | We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. | risk life | Thomas Moore | |
| 90a6615 | Should I thank you for putting on pants?" Lorcan said, his voice no more than a midnight wind. "I didn't want you to feel inadequate," Rowan replied, leaning against the roof door." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 17be64b | Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 091ac79 | Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 71fb900 | There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6a99df3 | If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only | Louis Sachar | ||
| 6c13644 | The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 29d0fc2 | We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them. | people perception | Colson Whitehead | |
| 7fa1072 | If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today. | John Fowles | ||
| 3909fab | Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right. | Norton Juster |