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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ba1b89 | We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| beb9cbe | Inspiration is always a surprising visitor. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 17e967b | If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes." | inspirational | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 0e6f400 | I was more alone than if I had been alone. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f3093d1 | Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d407738 | After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over." .. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 05e4d29 | But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 58c9bc1 | To infinity then. (Bubba) What's that mean? (Nick) It's something my dad used to say when I was a kid. To infinity, meaning you'd see something through to the end. (Bubba) Infinity is never-ending. (Nick) That's right, which means you keep going and going no matter what happens or what obstacles you meet. Over, under, around or through. There's always a way. And if you have to chase something to infinity, strap on your big-boy pants, hiking.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2bedaa8 | Xedrix-"No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 99e28d7 | Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa] | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f440e0d | I love him. (Artemis) How can you say that? You don't even understand what love means. Love isn't being ashamed to be seen with the one you care about. It isn't about punishment or hurt. Love is what gives you the strength you need to face anything no matter how brutal or frightening. It's what allowed Ash to be beaten rather than tell his father about you. It's what allowed him to be gutted on the floor at your feet rather than publicly sh.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2b7d7e7 | I slid closer, feeling his arms close around me, tightening. Our lips touched-- "Derek?" his dad called. "Chloe?" Derek let out a growl. I laughed and backed up. "We seem to get a lot of that, don't we?" I said. "Too much. After we eat, we're going for a walk. A long walk. Far from every possible interruption." I grinned up at him. "Sounds like a plan" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| d9ccbce | The worst part is that I saw the whole thing -- our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can't, and it's killing me. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| f2e076a | Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto. | motto hunted hunt hide waiting | Samuel Beckett | |
| 97c3c54 | I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| ea6ab05 | There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f0ddfa2 | I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night. | romantic vegas-vampires sunset | Erin McCarthy | |
| 5813593 | So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of tw.. | Amy Tan | ||
| 9999af0 | Thou art a very ragged Wart. | shakespeare henry-iv | William Shakespeare | |
| 5b572d4 | Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 67bd8e3 | I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! | Emily Brontë | ||
| 79f61eb | Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep the Dead down Three and Five became stone and mortar Four sees all in frozen water. | Garth Nix | ||
| 3bbf324 | Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that.. | scotland | Paul Auster | |
| 0e253e0 | A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured. | romance | Nora Roberts | |
| 7c81dca | Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user. | Dan Brown | ||
| 744d24b | As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. | suffering weak weakness | Jack London | |
| e6febb8 | To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 9af8f61 | The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a7c50ef | Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3fd85c7 | It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 13ee65d | When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 02ffae1 | Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with r.. | passion poetry reason soul | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 1de8d1c | With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when [she] would no longer bewail his loss. Or not as relentlessly; not nearly. There would come a day when the details of his face would begin to slip from memory's grip, when overhearing a mother on the street call.. | love | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 8f4c157 | Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| edbf78c | Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation? | Yann Martel | ||
| 8c977bd | I will not calm down! | hermione | J.K. Rowling | |
| f1bc285 | You're JOKING!" said Fred Weasley loudly. The tension that had filled the Hall ever since Moody's arrival suddenly broke. Nearly everyone laughed, and Dumbledore chuckled appreciatively. "I am joking, Mr. Weasley," he said, "though now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun who all go into a bar..." Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly. "Er -- but maybe this is not.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 68de3e7 | Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b374d18 | People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it. | Libba Bray | ||
| 0e97fb1 | It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 7ef9202 | Warriors of light always have a certain gleam in their eyes. They are of this world, they are part of the lives of others, and they set out on their journey with no saddlebags and no sandals. They are often cowardly. They do not always make the right decisions. They suffer over the most trivial things, they have mean thoughts, and sometimes believe that they are incapable of growing. They frequently deem themselves unworthy of any blessing .. | spiritual | Paulo Coelho / پائولو کوئیلو | |
| 5f3824f | Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here--the first house down the road, maybe--there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| cca7a2c | I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| f6bfe8d | A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. | fate | Ursula K. Le Guin |