1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
434
435
436
437
438
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f7a2c1b | What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. | childhood motherhood projection psychology | Margaret Atwood | |
| 072d25e | Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| f50c221 | Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. | immortality | Margaret Atwood | |
| 5ec90ab | I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one. | inspirational revolution | Marjane Satrapi | |
| d16f3e2 | This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . . | Italo Calvino | ||
| 200e2a3 | I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f162045 | We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the "Es muss sein!" to our own great love." | Milan Kundera | ||
| 26953a2 | A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of La.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| a50dd9c | Where would we be without tomorrows? What we'd have instead are todays. And if that was the case, with you, I'd hope for the longest day for today. I'd fill today with you, doing everything I've ever loved. I'd laugh, I'd talk, I'd listen and learn, I'd love, I'd love, I'd love. I'd make every day today and spend them all with you, and I'd never worry about tomorrow, when I wouldn't be with you. And when that dreaded tomorrow comes for us, .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 6c70f58 | That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c899864 | If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait." -- | love outlander | Diana Gabaldon | |
| e052083 | For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you... I have no name." | identity jamie-fraser love | Diana Gabaldon | |
| fc50a9d | A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK! | Roald Dahl | ||
| 247afcb | This world . . . belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf is the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides .. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 5f1e25e | Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 7a30302 | All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 977bbf8 | But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 82262e4 | Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable. | inspirational | Paramahansa Yogananda | |
| 5aa6afc | You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. | worship | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 591b237 | Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new. | relationships | Thomas Hardy | |
| d751cf1 | Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God - a being capable of understanding. | Graham Greene | ||
| 07ef8f3 | I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here. | love passion | Graham Greene | |
| a22ecbc | Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. | writing-advice | Neil Gaiman | |
| ace12ce | Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6d72b64 | A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. | utopia | Oscar Wilde | |
| cfbf97d | Thank you, Simon, I appreciate that." Luke opened the pizza box and, finding it empty, shut it with a sigh. "Though you did eat all the pizza." "I only had five slices," Simon protested, leaning his chair backward so it balanced precariously on its two back legs. "How many slices did you think were in a pizza, dork?" Clary wanted to know. "Less than five slices isn't a meal. It's a snack." Simon looked apprehensively at Luke. "Does this mea.. | luke simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4c7bb1b | Hope is not an illusion. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 10f5780 | Every time you almost die, I almost die myself. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2048741 | I didn't know," he said. "I didn't know you needed me." Her voice shook. "I always need you" | jace-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| a9c9167 | Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart | charlotte institute lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| c9d15d0 | Jem drew the bow back and let the arrow fly; it struck the creature in the side. The massive demon worm writhed in agony, undulating as it swept its great, blind head from side to side, uprooting shrubbery with its thrashings. Leaves filled the air and the boys choked on dust, Gideon backing up with his seraph blade in his hand, trying to see by its light. "It's coming toward us," he said in a low voice. And indeed it was, the arrow still.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0e97fa1 | Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| d505a04 | I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said." | John Green | ||
| 2be5afd | Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear o.. | god heaven hell | John Green | |
| 58f28a2 | I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the p.. | John Green | ||
| e1c01b2 | Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present | John Green | ||
| 66bf14b | There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless. | John Green | ||
| 650a8df | I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth... | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b3d00f8 | And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| dfa5964 | She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 34efdb1 | Human sympathy has its limits. | f-scott-fitzgerald quotes-to-define-my-life the-great-gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 0db262b | Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 14e0975 | I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| f3301d3 | Some can be more intelligent than others in a structured environment--in fact school has a selection bias as it favors those quicker in such an environment, and like anything competitive, at the expense of performance outside it. Although I was not yet familiar with gyms, my idea of knowledge was as follows. People who build their strength using these modern expensive gym machines can lift extremely large weights, show great numbers and dev.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |