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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c8a7cc | Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness. | inspirational life motivational | Robin S. Sharma | |
| f4e7337 | Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.] | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3084db8 | What business had I to think of one that never thought of me? | love romance thoughts | Anne Brontë | |
| f4d6ced | To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 6e128ee | Dreams and death were old friends of his. He knew how to navigate their dark borderland. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3d49f72 | You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| a261e4a | She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure. | inspirational love loving relationships | Steve Maraboli | |
| 7bbf59f | Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them. | inspirational janet-fitch white-oleander | Janet Fitch | |
| bd535d0 | If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it. | inspirational wonderful | Ben Carson | |
| c02ea1b | Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone? | drama fiction inspirational romance | Sarah Dessen | |
| bb8b57b | It's been said that love finds you when you're ready. | inspirational | James Patterson; Maxine Paetro | |
| 21ef52d | We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God. | faithful god hope inspirational results truth | Alex Harris | |
| 1e887c0 | A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before. | family inspirational | Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S | |
| 01cbde9 | When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that he.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c8c3eaf | When his thumb hovered over the red button, she stared at him aghast. "You're truly going to ... torture me?" He cast her a puzzled look. "Why wouldn't I torture you?" Because you used to love me, used to cherish me. "I thought we had a moment yesterday? Didn't you like seeing me in lingerie?" In a monotone voice, he said, "Why did the charge throwers have no ill effect on you?" He's truly going to do it? Then fuck him. DEFCON. "Chase, I've.. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9c3166c | I'm not interested in a life that doesn't have you in it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 135766a | Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant -- at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9d6e736 | Love is a dangerous angel. | danger love | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 6c29c70 | Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 929db63 | I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 6c3c67f | Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. | comfort home literature reading | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 7c3c47e | What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 80537a3 | A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 20e0e30 | I can't tell anymore when I'm asleep and when I'm awake, or which is worse. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6456d71 | Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens. 1. It is cold. So cold that the Department of Temperature Acknowledgment and Regulation in you brain gets the readings and says, "I can't deal with this. I'm out of here." It puts up the OUT TO LUNCH sign and passes all responsibility to the... 2. Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof, which gets all this gobbledygook from the temperature department that it can't u.. | maureen-johnson the-jubilee-express | Maureen Johnson | |
| 4e5ac38 | There is no story that is not true. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| f71e569 | Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer. | E. M. Forster | ||
| 14f6152 | Only connect! | connection | E.M. Forster | |
| a65633e | It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 350bf0a | Bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. Always think. Think what's possible. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9033d05 | Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 8dbfa9b | Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade | love | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 223d1b9 | Give me an honest con man any day. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 64fa2ec | People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the onramp. She says, "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles." Though that sentence shouldn't bother me, it stays in my mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter. Not the fact that I'm eighteen and it's Decembe.. | interaction isolation | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| a09ad9f | No one deserves to be whipped like an animal. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a4d57be | Once upon a time," she said to him, to the world, to herself, "in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom . . . very much." And then she told him of the princess whose heart had burned with wildfire, of the mighty kingdom in the north, of its downfall and of the sacrifice of Lady Marion. It was a long story, and sometimes she grew quiet and cried---and during those times he leaned over to wipe a.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ddedfab | Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you." "Sir?" "It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority." "Sir?" "That's practically zen." -- | feet-of-clay prachett sam-vimes samuel-vimes terry-pratchett zen | Terry Pratchett | |
| c2f227c | It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works. | wonder | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4c21eca | Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1796a5e | Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. An.. | funny ghost-town humor morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 3364a3e | You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin. | money | Rachel Caine | |
| 632d052 | To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. | wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| a4442b8 | For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. | color distance wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| d93dfee | Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness. | fearlessness | Cornelia Funke |