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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | story fantasy life | 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 | |
| be1b3a6 | It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful... | Tom Robbins | ||
| 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. | moving-on life | Jodi Picoult | |
| f0be627 | Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | love danger | 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. | literature reading comfort home | 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.. | the-jubilee-express maureen-johnson | Maureen Johnson | |
| 4e5ac38 | There is no story that is not true. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 8ee01d4 | In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. | relationships praise | 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 inspirational gender-roles | 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 | ||
| 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 |