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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 40ec750 | It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 44e01ef | I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so. | philosophy-of-life religion | Isaac Asimov | |
| 4c0546a | You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d25f7da | There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. | Richard Bach | ||
| 0230c5c | The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. | Philip Roth | ||
| 3a1af91 | Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do. | excuses family | John Steinbeck | |
| cd06bbc | We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 94b44b3 | Cleverness is not wisdom. | wisdom | Euripides | |
| 24ce820 | A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the .. | Charles Dickens | ||
| af829be | There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5bc59c6 | You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 86527e4 | A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. | life moving-on | Jodi Picoult | |
| 10ce162 | In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in norma.. | William Styron | ||
| 03a6d81 | Patience to the spider | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8797864 | For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering | suffering | Albert Camus | |
| adf6da2 | Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. We live on the future: "tomorrow," "later on," "when you have made your way," "you will understand when you are old enough." Such irrelevancies are wonderful, for, after all, it's a matter of dying. Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he situates .. | Albert Camus | ||
| bb5074b | It's the strange world.' 'The strangest. | the-host | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 9107040 | Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6837c92 | If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9ddba5e | Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to... | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 62a243f | Do you like it?" she asks. Universal bitch speak for " | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| dffa109 | Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin. | James Patterson | ||
| 0a8c1e8 | There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on. | fantasy life story | Charles deLint | |
| e307481 | You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going. | perseverance | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 538142a | Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to" | Harper Lee | ||
| 2b6765f | I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my car I hate it when you stare I hate your big dumb combat boots And the way you read my mind I hate you so much, that it makes me sick And even makes me rhyme I hate the way you're always right I hate it when you lie I hate it when you make me laugh Even worse when you make me cry I hate it when you not around And the fact that you didn't call But mostly .. | David Levithan | ||
| 637aaa4 | And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the res.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2274765 | Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 59e6bb3 | To create art means | bukowskisism poetry | Charles Bukowski | |
| 4177724 | Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortes'll lay Tenochtitlan to waste again, and later, Ewing will sail again, Adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and I'll sleep under the Corsican stars again, I'll come to Bruges again, fall in and out of love with Eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. Nietzsche's.. | David Mitchell | ||
| c573dbd | I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy. | derek fantasy good-strategy ilona-andrews magic-bites rowena | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8ee01d4 | In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. | praise relationships | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 25924f2 | Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever. | feminism gender-roles inspirational | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| fdf8c2e | Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway. | social-anxiety | Martin Amis | |
| d381045 | People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society. | Robert Greene | ||
| ed3f0a2 | The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e201a19 | I am in love with Hope. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 24c15a0 | The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6edd324 | There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it. It is the same tantalizing sensation when you almost remember a name, but don't quite reach it. I can feel it when I think of human beings, of the hints of evolution suggested by the removal of wisdom teeth, the narrowing of the jaw no longer needed to chew such roughage as it was accustome.. | restlessness understanding | Sylvia Plath | |
| 84374c2 | When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 716d43c | No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. | first-sentence opening-lines | H.G. Wells | |
| ab352dc | Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again--not after they'd been apart for so many months. | coach-hedge percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians relationships separation the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| daf35fb | With great power... comes need to take a nap. Wake me up later | percy-jackson rick-riordan the-last-olympian | Rick Riordan | |
| d70d57d | Nature is to zoos as God is to churches. | Margaret Atwood |