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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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.. | friendship love julia companionship | 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." | love goliath scott-westerfeld flying | 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 | joy spirituality god life | 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 | ||
| 7e09a91 | Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them." | politics humor voting trickery sarcasm | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1b3013e | You okay?" "Fine." "Your heart's beating really fast." "Gee, thanks. That's very comforting that you can hear it." He smiled, and it was the old Michael, the one she'd first met before all the vamp stuff. "Yeah, I know it is. Sorry. Just stay behind me if there's trouble." "You sound like Shane." "Well, he did say he'd kill me if I got you hurt. I'm just looking after my own neck." "Liar." | funny humor eve-rosser michael-glass ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine shane-collins teacher vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 297b49c | Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore." Eve" | mornings morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| e0c7817 | Just Me, Just Me Sweet Marie, she loves just me (She also loves Maurice McGhee). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves Louise Dupree). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves the willow tree). No she don't, she loves just me! (Poor, poor fool, why can't you see She can love others and still love thee.) | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 7471342 | I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)" | P.C. Cast | ||
| 6070614 | A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel's End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there's the punch line. | romance humor rachel-morgan vampire | Kim Harrison | |
| 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." | men courage women empathy sensitivity | 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." | lover-mine saxton blaylock jr-ward qhuinn | 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!!! | fiction science humor alchemist fullmetal | 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. | television nature humanity miltary drugs | Michael Parenti | |
| f03e470 | It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it. | funny ed-fargo cool fearless | Francine Pascal | |
| 588872b | But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. | loneliness privacy isolation | 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. | words literature reading | 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. | men relationships women love | 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) | war mad-skills manipulation omniscient | 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 |