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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5a01a11 | Until death it is all life | life livving | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 66d5200 | What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind? | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| b4763d6 | If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure it, to let it become something creative and positive that contributes to who you are. Nietzche said that one of the best days in his life was the day when he rebaptized all his negative qualities as his best qualities. Rather than banishing what is at first glimpse unwelcome, you bring it home to unity with you.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 57fc492 | Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 9a7ef44 | It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it. | Nick Hornby | ||
| fd209fa | He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. | photography photos pictures youth | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 7e41da7 | Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. | metaphysical philosophy taste | MurakamiHaruki | |
| 4739dac | I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I suppose it's part of growing up, yet it's also an attempt to re-invent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself - as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What's missing.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9a75b04 | I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3b9e3e7 | Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 95b017c | I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a69f5d0 | A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8690574 | This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both - it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e21a36c | Are the gods not just?" "Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?" | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 2bf74f3 | If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. | animal-rights enemies eugenics logic | C.S. Lewis | |
| be1b3a6 | It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful... | Tom Robbins | ||
| 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 | ||
| a9f5e20 | I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks. | cahill grace | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 71f59cd | I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| c127d3c | To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. | Clive Barker | ||
| 5191b74 | Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to send the right message to kids. | gay-rights | Bill Maher | |
| 8f32f01 | At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, | T.S. Eliot | ||
| d835963 | Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. | cowardice | Oscar Wilde | |
| 550857a | If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b519584 | Mr. Lightwood," she said, raising herself up on her elbows. "Are those under your bed?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 460e2b2 | Did you know we were leaving for Idris?" "Catarina told me she'd been summoned to make a portal. I guessed," Magnus said wryly. "I was a little surprised you hadn't called or texted to tell me you were going away." "You never answer my calls or texts," said Alec. "That hasn't stopped you before." "Everyone gives up eventually," Alec said. "Besides, Jace broke my phone." Magnus huffed a laughter. "Oh, Alexander." "What?" alec asked, honestly.. | malec | Cassandra Clare | |
| 34dadef | Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn't fancy her chances. "You don't know James Carstairs. Don't speak about him." "Love him, do you?" Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. "But you love Will, too." Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will's affection for her, but the idea that what .. | jem tessa will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8fff4d1 | I don't want the world. I want you. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 48d50c0 | I should have known what you would do," Jem said in a low voice. "I always know what you will do. I should have known you would put your hands into the fire." "And I should have known you would throw that packet away," said Will, without rancor. "It was--it was a madly noble thing to do. I understand why you did it." "I was thinking of Tessa." Jem drew his knees up and rested his chin on them, then laughed softly. "Madly noble. Isn't that m.. | parabatai will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| f15d01b | I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. | isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| d335e65 | It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had. | hope inspirational love romantic | Cassandra Clare | |
| eb5e4f1 | Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary... | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 20c67cf | You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| aa07780 | In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 6a6a73c | The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Fin.. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 2879648 | It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 57b83a9 | Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know? | hate john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 2e7d447 | Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 493d423 | He sits next to me and puts his arm on the back of my chair, leaning close. I don't stare back -- I to stare back. I stare back. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 30a989f | As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| b65e64a | I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded--and how pitiful that was. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 53d62bf | He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6d27c74 | I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 43108d7 | Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for. | Meg Cabot |