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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | love espionage | 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. | religion god | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 7cf96b0 | sometimes I hate you," she said." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 7c5ff31 | J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962." | responsibility risk fear clients criminal-law justice-system innocence justice guilt | 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| fd46642 | The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 86f6b90 | The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.. | travel risk inspirational | Paul Theroux | |
| b451b11 | I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 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 | |
| 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. | passion love | 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.. | simon-lewis luke | 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.. | heaven god 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. | quotes-to-define-my-life the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald | 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 |