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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dadcb28 | Are you happy? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b7a8a28 | Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 237f1f9 | 10 things to know about Syn 1. I hate people, even myself. 2. I only tolerate my friends and I can count those on one hand. 3. So what if I drink? I like my comfortably numb state and it keeps me from killing you. 4. Money can't buy happiness, but it's better than being poor and miserable. 5. We're all victims. 6. I like to choose my own poison. 7. I'm through reinventing myself. I'm on the third incarnation now and it sucks as much as the .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 350c4ba | Are tou trying to be annoying?" I demanded. My patience was not waning, but entirely gone. "Because if you are, then be assured, you have succeeded." Jared and Wes looked at me with shocked eyes. "I am female," I complained. "That 'it' business is really getting on my nerves." Jared blinked in surprise, then his face settled back into harder lines. "Because of the body you wear?" Wes glared at him. "Because of me," I hissed. "By whose def.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 28aa160 | I wondered how long it could last. Maybe someday, years from now.If the pain would decrease to the point where I could bear it.I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 2a79314 | In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional...What a special case I was. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 2c4b37b | I don't believe in God. Can you understand that? Look around you man. Cant you see? The clamor and din of those in torment has to be the sound most pleasing to his ear. And I loathe these discussions. The argument of the village atheist whose single passion is to revile endlessly that which he denies the existence of in the first place. Your fellowship is a fellowship of pain and nothing more. And if that pain were actually collective inste.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f3468dd | But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on the computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so. You begin rocking, just .. | writer writing file how-to-write imagine focus quiet | Anne Lamott | |
| dfe8e9e | I have never been able to resist a book about books. | reading books | Anne Fadiman | |
| b23bd5e | When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...] | time kiss love fake staring | Simone Elkeles | |
| df19f4a | What can't be cured must be endured. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| d3f589b | You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life. | William Shakespeare | ||
| f233253 | Because I don't want to be alone right now." His voice echoes through the night. I turn around to face him one last time. "You weren't alone, asshole." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| de672aa | Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It's the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybody but the most dried up and dysfunctional is drawn to the grove and enchanted by its mysteries, but then they just can't wait to call in the chain saws and bulldozers and replace it with a family-style restaurant or a new S and L. That's the p.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 8787eb4 | It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do. | Paul Auster | ||
| 04c4fb9 | Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 8e004f3 | Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move. | progress happiness fulfillment movement innovation growth | Ayn Rand | |
| 6700bd3 | In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love...We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 476bbb1 | In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. | regrets | Lisa See | |
| 801599d | They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table. | drinking liquor vodka russian drunk russia | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 1667bdc | You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| d1d23be | What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 53b4567 | After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8340a57 | When she wanted to escape her life, she read books | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 625b856 | I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich.. | racism poverty greed criminal-justice-system cycle-of-violence imprisonment retribution homelessness unemployment jail incarceration punishment justice prison desperation | Howard Zinn | |
| 9ecda9b | And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 47c8b1e | Intellect is not wisdom. | society | Thomas Sowell | |
| 6feb042 | People plan, God laughs. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 68d66c7 | Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 9956751 | People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it was populated, and before there were wars and jobs and colleges and movies and clothes and opinions and foreign travel -- before all of these things there had been only one person, Zora, and only one place: a tent in the living room made from cha.. | love siblings | Zadie Smith | |
| 177c1a0 | Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6c2aebf | The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. When a boss humiliates an employee, or a man humiliates his wife, he is merely being cowardly or taking his revenge on life, they are people who have never dared to look into the depths of their soul, never attempted to know the origin of that desire to unl.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f7341d2 | Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 804d855 | Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking. | relationships romance jokes | Amy Sedaris | |
| 922005a | There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8f459c6 | Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you .. | sophie howl | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 9b9c2fc | A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 6596450 | And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky - so the space where I exist, and I want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 84e515d | Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality. | Richard Wright | ||
| 8c941c1 | We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now. | good politics | Anne Bishop | |
| f693405 | I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love. | romance | Philippa Gregory | |
| 5bfac87 | The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4c0771d | What do you do when it rains?" The captain answered frankly. "I get wet." -- | Joseph Heller | ||
| ccdc5c6 | You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offender, to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest. That is the powerful move. What you do not react to cannot drag you down in a futile engagement. Your pride is not involved. The best lesson you can teach an irritating gnat is to consign it to oblivion by ignoring it. | Robert Greene |