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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 100b2ef | Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. | writing | Toni Morrison | |
| 3fac1b6 | To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. | ted-hughes the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| af7c62f | Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f629683 | I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace" | clary-fray jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| c132f05 | Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. | favourite-quote inspirational | Alan Moore | |
| 18cbf5e | I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. | love power powerful | Veronica Roth | |
| a0c8216 | Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. | remaining-silent silence | George Eliot | |
| 473f92a | Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. | seriousness | Oscar Wilde | |
| 5e61f74 | What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. | life opposites summer winter | John Steinbeck | |
| ecb25c1 | He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| c8d3bf4 | I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. | god purple religion | alice walker | |
| 3b35bf1 | Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. | humor | Stephen King | |
| f468cca | Basia coquum," Simon said. "Or whatever their motto is." "It's 'Descensus Averno facilis est.' 'The descent into hell is easy," said Alec. "You just said "Kiss the cook." "Dammit," said Simon. "I knew Jace was screwing with me." | humor simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6218b88 | I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile." | Veronica Roth | ||
| ea309bb | She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 0ca3fbf | If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 8fba76d | I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 953434b | Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. | loss | Haruki Murakami | |
| 2f7d8bb | But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don't you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before. | isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| b852fdf | Now, come over here so I can pat you down." "But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down. "You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid." | declare mental-pat-down no-arms percy-jackson terminus | Rick Riordan | |
| 77a3ed5 | You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a4d869d | To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love | Jane Austen | ||
| d358d39 | You see, but you do not observe. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 8c64b31 | Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 9951759 | I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| fe7fe2f | I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fba403b | The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. | hope | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 1c2f430 | Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. | sin wisdom | Harper Lee | |
| 5e78ad9 | We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. | John Green | ||
| ba103e3 | I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. | Ayn Rand | ||
| c85f23a | Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence- whether much that is glorious- whether all that is profound- does not spring from disease of thought- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. | insanity intelligence sanity | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 333d6f9 | The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. | Nick Hornby | ||
| dfa01cc | The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore. | belief-in-self believe-in-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life life living self-awareness self-belief self-knowledge self-love | C. JoyBell C. | |
| a6256f4 | Do you love me?' I asked her. She smiled. 'Yes.' 'Do you want me to be happy?' as I asked her this I felt my heart beginning to race. 'Of course I do.' 'Will you do something for me then?' She looked away, sadness crossing her features. 'I don't know if I can anymore.' she said. 'but if you could, would you?' I cannot adequately describe the intensity of what I was feeling at that moment. Love, anger, sadness, hope, and fear, whirling toget.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 05433bd | It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? | John Green | ||
| 2074d93 | We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades. | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| a112025 | I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. | hope optimism | Nelson Mandela | |
| 5cff3fc | I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 14b9047 | She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. | god gods greek kiss | Rick Riordan | |
| eb8be5f | When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be. | Julia Glass | ||
| efc5f46 | When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. | reading stories story | John Berger | |
| e3d7ea4 | We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e8b5f75 | The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. | Mitch Albom | ||
| a143120 | The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live. | Kenzaburō Ōe |