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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 231a0c7 | It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there. | life | John O'Donohue | |
| a80cfaf | We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. | judgement procrastination | Erica Jong | |
| ba49d5d | You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. | Italo Calvino | ||
| 9a279b3 | She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 2b0a6d4 | When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day; a couple, however, does not have to put up with it. Aren't our eyes made to be torn out, and our hearts for the same purpose? At the same time it's really not that bad; that's an exaggeration and a lie, everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing. But even the truth of longing is not so much its own truth; it's really an expression for everything else, which .. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 189df97 | I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4d8baed | When I wake up, my pillow's cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3173186 | What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3acb9c1 | The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled. | Chris Gardner | ||
| 0b8174a | What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 4b59d53 | Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept. | wisdom | Wallace Stegner | |
| 4475e69 | It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room in which there was a window that looked out on a lovely bay of the sea or a green valley that wound away among mountains. And in the wall of that room opposite to the window there may have been a looking-glass... | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 4985e17 | It is better to forget about yourself altogether. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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.. | criminal-justice-system cycle-of-violence desperation greed homelessness imprisonment incarceration jail justice poverty prison punishment racism retribution unemployment | Howard Zinn | |
| 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 .. | howl sophie | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 9b9c2fc | A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| c87115b | Courage moral and physical: 'anima'--the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: "anima"--the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd." | courage empathy men sensitivity women | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 7de209b | Wherever we are, we are as one | parabatai will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 93edc5b | the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 72c61ce | We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. | life | Oscar Wilde | |
| e02f214 | My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me." ... She couldn't hear him laugh, but she felt his body shake. "She wouldn't say that if she knew me," he called back to her confidently. "I'm an excellent driver." -Clary & Jace, pg.289-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 23587a5 | If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 066dbde | If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea. | Stephen King | ||
| ffb2ece | Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| dbaaa75 | The male who'd just arrived laughed as he embraced Qhuinn. "You have a way with words, cousin. I would say...trucker meets sailor crossed with a twelve-year-old." | blaylock jr-ward lover-mine qhuinn saxton | J.R. Ward | |
| b2cd3a2 | Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that... Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!! | alchemist fiction fullmetal humor science | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| f46daac | I can't be mad at you, you harmless scrawny bastard. | John Green | ||
| cea2f2f | How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people. | John Green | ||
| a5cadde | Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or the booze or God they though would save them. Adults think they are wielding power, but really power is wielding them. | John Green | ||
| ba093cd | Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 68eb5f4 | maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun." | Craig Ferguson | ||
| 17de9e1 | They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 7088f7b | How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b808ac5 | The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force. | drugs humanity miltary nature television | Michael Parenti | |
| f03e470 | It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it. | cool ed-fargo fearless funny | Francine Pascal | |
| 588872b | But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. | isolation loneliness privacy | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 343a8a1 | If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive. | trust | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 20c66a1 | I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars. | Alan Moore | ||
| 4065dda | When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape - into different countries, mores, speech patterns - but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life's subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. | literature reading words | Julian Barnes | |
| 8e44b73 | He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them. | love men relationships women | Julian Barnes | |
| 1f4faf2 | The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys) | mad-skills manipulation omniscient war | George R.R. Martin | |
| 911253a | There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course. | love royal-family | Meg Cabot | |
| 0f831da | Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin." --Valek and Moon Man" | valek | Maria V. Snyder |