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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1cf4987 | Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 283ff9a | Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different. | life paranormal-romance | Laurell K Hamilton | |
| 5cb38b6 | I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f58458d | Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly. | questions | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 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. | drama empty fiction filled jodi-picoult love mystery novel okay plain-truth say speak tell truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| f39b2dc | That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| a1d3f50 | Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 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 | ||
| 7cf96b0 | sometimes I hate you," she said." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 7c5ff31 | J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962." | clients criminal-law fear guilt innocence justice justice-system responsibility risk | Michael Connelly | |
| c0f5b87 | Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| c513814 | You want me to level, here it is: I need you. I need you because I love you. Three months without you will be hell. But even if we weren't together, I would still need you. You're a good fighter, you've worked as a bodyguard, and you know magic. We may not have many magic users, but we don't know if those packs do, and if they hit us with magic, we have no way to counter." He spread his arms. "But I love you and I don't want you to be hurt... | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 73cc729 | Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words,out we come, bloodied and squalling.... | Tom Stoppard | ||
| e402875 | It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir" | distance leaving | Charlotte Brontë | |
| bb352df | Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray. | espionage love | John le Carré | |
| 82a1bb6 | I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b3e94ca | I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. | god religion | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| eaa4a7a | If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself! | pointlessness | Philip K. Dick | |
| 5aa0350 | Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel t.. | depression growth pain personality spirituality | Alice Walker | |
| 2b14cf6 | First Pallas and now you," the gray-haired man said, shaking his head at Nick. "It's like I'm running a goddamn dating service around here." -- | mike-davis | Julie James | |
| 1f8f0e6 | You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that .. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 1b415d6 | You know that half the girls in school would have been after you." He gave a soft laugh. "If they were into someone who was flunking out...I don't think I'd do too well with having to go to class when a bell rings or caring about homework..." "A bad boy--even better. You'd have done well in Spanish class." "If I ever went to it." We lay in silence for a awhile; Alex's arms felt so warm and safe that I was starting to get sleepy. "Say someth.. | L.A. Weatherly | ||
| 35d41d0 | How in the world did they just jump from politics, to a ball, and now to daimon attacks? And here I'd thought I had the attention span of an ant on Red Bull. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 282e987 | Kitten..." "Hmm?" I fisted the covers. "Just making sure you're still with me." He kissed the side of my leg, right above my knee. "Don't want you falling asleep or anything." Like sleep was possible. Ever." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4ab0c78 | Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't." | Darren Shan | ||
| b3bebf2 | Hades allowed himself the faintest smile, but there was nothing cruel in his eyes. 'I can entertain the possibility that you acted for multiple reasons. My point is this: you and I rose to the aid of Olympus because you convinced me to let go of my anger. I would encourage you to do likewise. My children are so rarely happy. I ... I would like to see you be an exception.' Nico stared at his father. He didn't know what to do with that stat.. | hades love nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| 1d52416 | Carter, not to be unkind," I said, "but the last few months you've been seeing messages about Zia . Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes." "It was a Z! Carved right in the potatoes!" -- | kane-chronicles sadie | Rick Riordan | |
| 579ac1b | Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me." "Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful." | care hope love | Rick Riordan | |
| ae7f045 | The trouble is, depression doesn't come with handy symptoms like spots and a temperature, so you don't realize it at first. You keep saying 'I'm fine' to people when you're not fine. You think you be fine. You keep saying to yourself: 'Why aren't I fine? | depression mental-health | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 65f4e4f | I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped. | sam | Sophie Kinsella |