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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 670edd7 | Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things. | fantasy singing | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 83f6e09 | I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e898e6b | There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ffab154 | Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must. | harry-potter stare-down ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 26012d2 | Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9e3db37 | All was well. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3526ac1 | But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. | inspiration | Libba Bray | |
| 7627a8a | Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5e28bbb | It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes. | mistakes | Paulo Coelho | |
| 755490b | She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 375d728 | I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 17509b6 | There is... this rage." she said "This despair and hatred and rage that lives and breathes inside me. There's not sanity to it, no gentleness. It is a monster dwelling under my skin. For the past ten years, I have worked every day, every hour, to keep that monster locked up. And the moment I talk about those two days, and what happened before and after, that monster is going to break loose, and there will be no accounting for what I do." "T.. | rowan-whitethorn heir-of-fire | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 5e86943 | She wasn't fine, not even close. But she wasn't dead. And that was a start. | pg228 | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 62e87dd | Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, "Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!" | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 0e578ff | I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man. | raoul kel jokes | Tamora Pierce | |
| a5cbcd1 | Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 30a7edd | We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 5162e86 | Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that's all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f7a51b2 | Any love that is love is right. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 4970eb8 | By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. | life truth | Virginia Woolf | |
| 657ab2e | Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried." | Judith McNaught | ||
| aaba990 | I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little. | phoney resentful uneducated | John Fowles | |
| fb201b7 | Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| e275c30 | I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it. | love wise ideas letters | Cornel West | |
| a9731e6 | We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. | theatre life exit actors entrance transition passage drama | Tom Stoppard | |
| 35a8734 | If you're telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don't complain. Be forgiving. If possible, make it funny. Most of all, do not be angry. Black people are not supposed to be angry about racism. Otherwise you get no sympathy. This applies only for white liberals, by the way. Don't even bother telling a white conservative about anything racist that happened to you. Because the cons.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| befc3e0 | Sometimes when you open a book, time stops. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 66de945 | The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go. | inspirational | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| fc4822a | every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world--that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage. | marriage fidelity | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 7172b70 | Amanda: This weekend was wonderful, but it isn't real life. It was more like a honeymoon, and after a while the excitement will wear off. We can tell ourselves it won't happen, we can make all the promises we want, but it's inevitable, and after that you'll never look at me the way you do now. I won't be the woman you dream about, or the girl you used to love. And you won't be my long-lost love, my one true thing anymore, either. You'll be .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3502472 | what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it | David Levithan | ||
| ce6fabe | It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. | science order | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| 6579c43 | Me, want to bloody kick this world in the bloody over and over till it bloody that is ten bloody times more bloody important than being . | life | David Mitchell | |
| 9c4b778 | It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a03f7a6 | This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars. | silence soul | Walt Whitman | |
| eb736a3 | You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies." "Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries." | Rachel Caine | ||
| b6960e2 | Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think." | iq smart talent | David Sedaris | |
| da3c693 | When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. | freedom zen | Jack Kerouac | |
| 5d7232d | You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| e963620 | Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting. | peas revolting neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| b266f7a | I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4e9a60e | Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you're going to be. | simon-lewis choose decision | Cassandra Clare | |
| 499fb85 | For a moment she just stared, wondering if there were another girl staying here, or if Sebastian had taken to cross-dressing. | sebastian | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4f32263 | But he would understand," he said dazedly. "If we explained it to him. If we told him...he would understand." She made her voice as cold as she could. As calm. "Told him what?" Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs... And it was going now, fading like the last breath of someone dying. She felt as if she were watching the life bleed out of Will Herondale. "Jem would forgive me," Will said, but there was hop.. | Cassandra Clare |