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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0a48707 | Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean. | P.C. Cast | ||
| f41d9f0 | To understand all is to forgive all. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 357316f | Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget." -- | Andy Warhol | ||
| 0cb5b29 | I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5b1a942 | I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| afbd539 | Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane. | judgement superstition insanity | Bram Stoker | |
| 529547f | Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade. | work gardens | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 3b26ac6 | You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon's father we're discussing." "We're not just discussing him; we're chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he's turned into a worm." | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 89f0e77 | He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her dreams were his dreams, and her blood was his blood, and when her heart stopped he knew that his would too, and he would be glad, because he wouldn't want to live one second in a world that didn't have her in it. | love lady-midnight julian-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 961da83 | Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 4266565 | Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| ea2948b | On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job? | Stephen King | ||
| ee1275f | Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land. | normal snafu | Jim Butcher | |
| d0c2961 | Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. | John Green | ||
| 495cdcf | I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. | life self-value worthy | John Green | |
| dbe8842 | I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark. | the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| f5b911b | I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not .. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 8be20dc | I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's. | life parents | Craig Ferguson | |
| 134efc8 | Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| d8f8e56 | I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 392641b | I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 1914666 | To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. | feminism beauty society eating-disorders self-esteem | Naomi Wolf | |
| 6f1daa4 | I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night. | grief loss sorrow sadness sad | Francine Prose | |
| 44e7b6f | I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard." "You'll never find out. You--------" He kissed me. ~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner" | sex kiss happy jack-travis | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 6143258 | Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. | suicide women love | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 2ca9d84 | Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 1d32e9b | That is death - shifting from "is" to "was." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 49ae7db | My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 68cdd73 | Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 64a2c5d | Tyrion shrugged. "We all need to be mocked from time to time Lord Mormont lest we start to take ourselves too seriously." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d36bf02 | There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well. | writing professionalism creative-process | Agatha Christie | |
| 1ac6f13 | Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful. | Rob Bell | ||
| 5df84ec | I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 3f7eb78 | If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 6ec2e28 | He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. | godard courage inspirational existentialism | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 10f40d8 | 90% of the game is half mental. | math-humor inspirational | Yogi Berra | |
| 3fc3df8 | I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve, | damen inspirational-love-family-loss love-quotes damianos-of-akielos inspirational inspirational-quote | C.S. Pacat | |
| 8716d5f | Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. | life inspirational | Og Mandino | |
| 5b45262 | You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. | inspirational | Jim Carrey | |
| 216d723 | Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. | fear inspirational self-confidence | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 1490428 | The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now. | inspirational | Gordon B. Hinckley | |
| cf01b71 | This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here. | witty | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 693c2ea | How much snow are they calling for?" "Somewhere between a lot and holy fuck." | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 56e77fb | Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework. 'm listening. Annabeth: I mean, the West represents a lot of the best things mankind ever did--that's why the fire is still burning. That's why OlympusIs still around. But sometimes you just see the bad stuff, you know? And you start thinking the way Luke does: '.. | fatality hubris percy-jackson the-sea-of-the-monsters percy-jackson-and-the-olympians rick-riordan flaws | Rick Riordan |