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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f49bbc3 | Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness. | Garth Nix | ||
| 608e671 | You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place... | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 18455b5 | One should never underestimate the power of books. | Paul Auster | ||
| 33a9797 | All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. | Paul Auster | ||
| f8d8c12 | His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. | William Golding | ||
| 2ca5967 | Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby. | Neil Strauss | ||
| a99fd93 | Nothing in Christianity is original. | organized-religion | Dan Brown | |
| 7006c5e | We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive. | life love inspirational | John Eldredge | |
| 2906e64 | Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. | punctuality | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 57c2d13 | Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Luthien | light sorrow joy luthien shadow | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 464f7e5 | Bilbo's Last Song Day is ended, dim my eyes, But journey long before me lies. Farewell, friends! I hear the call. The ship's beside the stony wall. Foam is white and waves are grey; Beyond the sunset leads my way. Foam is salt, the wind is free; I hear the rising of the Sea. Farewell, friends! The sails are set, The wind is east, the moorings fret. Shadows long before me lie, Beneath the ever-bending sky, But islands lie behind the Sun That.. | tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9bd080f | Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. | Herman Melville | ||
| 9522159 | I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3a2ef15 | the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5d35ea7 | So Plato talked about these beings that used to exist that had four legs and four arms and two heads. They were totally self-contained and ecstatic and powerful. Too powerful, so Zeus cut them all in half and scattered all the halves around the world so that humans were doomed to forever look for their other half, the one who shared their very soul. Only the luckiest humans find their split-apart, you see. | Jandy Nelson | ||
| 5adabc7 | I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts. | russell-brand platonic plato | Russell Brand | |
| dbe9c30 | I can't give a Professor love! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9bee576 | The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes....It'll be like a holiday, won't it? " -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 874f745 | So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you." | humor ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 88b9fd5 | There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength. | strength | J.K. Rowling | |
| d8df390 | No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c619fb9 | It's leviOsa, not levioSA! | hermione | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9a16a7f | I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me... | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0a37d57 | Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 6c77f8c | are you as deft at handling your sword as Captain Westfall?" "Better," he whispered in her ear." | chaol dorian chaol-westfall celaena-sardothien innuendo sword | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 68deeb5 | Aware of every breath, every movement, I sat in his lap. His hands gently braced my hips as I studied his face. "And now I want you to know, Rhysand, that I love you. I want you to know ... " His lips trembled, and I brushed away the tear that escaped down his cheek. "I want you to know," I whispered, "that I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you. And I am honored--honored to be your mate." His arms wrapped aroun.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9b183d8 | I like the truth, even when it does trouble me. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 3089d34 | What is meant by "reality"? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable--now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying. It overwhelms one walking home beneath the stars and makes the silent world more real than the world of speech--and then there it is again in an omnibus in the uproar of Piccadilly. Someti.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e0aba1e | When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. | reality wisdom | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 008cff9 | Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 204fb6a | Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers' high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn't stop the Irish population in general from skulking around .. | irish | Eoin Colfer | |
| be267bb | We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| acfca34 | Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. | trust | Patrick Lencioni | |
| 16a8be4 | I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land. | trust honour loyalty | David Gemmell | |
| abb12d6 | To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger. | Robert Greene | ||
| 0b359b0 | Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 7e29248 | Forgive me, I guess I am off in the head, but I mean, except for a quickie piece of ass it wouldn't matter to me if all the people in the world died. Yes, I know it's not nice. But I'd be as contended as a snail; it was, after all, the people who had made me unhappy. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 25a614e | It seemed better to delay thinking. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 124627b | We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The feelings must be followed. It doesn't matter whether you're an ideologue or a sensualist, you follow the stimuli thinking that they're your signposts to the promised land. But they are nothing of the kind. What they are is rocks to navigate th.. | lies life truth schizophrenia | Irvine Welsh | |
| 5148989 | You need a name." I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name." "Hunters," Raphael said. "Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said. "Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken." "Fools." Doolittle shook his head. "Fools," I said into the receiver." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 97c5a93 | What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ecdce4d | It's astonishing the amount of time that certain straight people devote to gay sex - trying to determine what goes where and how often. They can't imagine any system outside their own, and seem obsessed with the idea of roles, both in bed and out of it. Who calls whom a bitch? Who cries harder when the cat dies? Which one spends the most time in the bathroom? I guess they think that it's that cut-and-dried, though of course it's not. Hugh m.. | lgbt | David Sedaris | |
| 312bc1a | We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. B.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 392e419 | Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today." | Shel Silverstein |