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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 drunk liquor russia russian vodka | 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 | ||
| 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 .. | file focus how-to-write imagine quiet writer writing | Anne Lamott | |
| dfe8e9e | I have never been able to resist a book about books. | books reading | 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[...] | fake kiss love staring time | 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 | ||
| 48569b2 | Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! | Mario Puzo | ||
| 4effaa6 | I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[...] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage. | David Levithan | ||
| 6d33460 | But whether or not you are here, you are here--because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way. | David Levithan | ||
| d920bca | Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what w.. | companionship friendship julia love | David Levithan | |
| 573d6eb | It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 9d03607 | Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying." | flying goliath love scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 7a388d8 | Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| d767d59 | For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 2739ae9 | The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when | god joy life spirituality | St. Thomas Aquinas | |
| 89d723e | Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| a5360ad | I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 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 | ||
| 56680cd | A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| ac1be01 | All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 9a31b2e | Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. | plot | Ray Bradbury | |
| dadcb28 | Are you happy? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 64343ea | A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life: 1. Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another with what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you. 5. Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves. 6. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 7. We never repent of having e.. | quotes-to-live-by | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 4c41c00 | Never in my life had I been more frustrated. Go figure it wouldn't be with a human but a freaking alien. At least I now knew that the male species were asses no matter what planet they hailed from. | jennifer-l-armentrout obsession | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 95d5ae5 | I, Astaroth, Crown Prince of Hell, am in love with you, Layla Shaw. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. A hudred decades from now, I will still be in love with you, and it will be as fierce today as it will be a decade later. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4bda894 | Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian" | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 5cf983c | Most helmsmen would've been satisfied with a pilot's wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling on the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD. | humor | Rick Riordan | |
| 58585e7 | Bessie?" I looked down at the bull serpent. "But... he's too cute. He couldn't destroy the world." -Percy Jackson" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 40a2201 | hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing. | heroes-of-olympus humor percabeth percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 4679eb5 | You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan | Rick Riordan | ||
| b0ad277 | Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed. | Margaret Atwood |