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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 42291b8 | The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 632b993 | The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again. | writing | Anne Lamott | |
| 9745c5b | Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 2b758d8 | Out, damned spot! out, I say! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 0e0f718 | When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, .. | poetry sonnet-xxix | William Shakespeare | |
| 54e175a | O, brave new world that has such people in't! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 208a4e7 | It's become impossible to deny he means something to me. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e07d18c | There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the malice of trade unions, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-m.. | humor satire | Stephen Fry | |
| 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. | order science | 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 | |
| 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. | actors drama entrance exit life passage theatre transition | 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. | fidelity marriage | 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 | ||
| fd6d306 | But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved. | Mitch Albom | ||
| aa71a28 | I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either. | love unrequited-love | Donald Miller | |
| 71a8fd6 | I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself. | loneliness | Sylvia Plath | |
| 609a4f8 | Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially.. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 0ea4c42 | Daemon stomped past them, bumping into his brother's shoulder. "You make my head hurt", he said, scowling. "And you make me all warm and fuzzy inside"." | dawson | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 8f79257 | Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here! | juno | Rick Riordan | |
| fe2489b | I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean - have you ever thought about what this ultimate treasure could be?" "Something cool." (Dan) "Oh, that's real helpful. I mean, what could make somebody the most powerful Cahill in history? And why thirty-nine clues?" Dan shrugged. "Thirty-nine is a sweet number. It's thirteen times three. It's also the sum of five prime numbers in a row - 3,5.. | amy-cahill dan-cahill math treasure | Rick Riordan | |
| 1f7a7e1 | I want some time without you organic life forms. | Rick Riordan | ||
| fb7d36c | Jason muttered "And I saw something...Really terrible." "That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-" "Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up." | heroes-of-olympus jason-grace lost-hero piper-mclean thalia-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| 587ffb0 | Roarke: "Darling, before we shift into the official mode, what do you have on under that dress?" Eve: "A device designed to drive men wild." Roarke: "It's working. I don't believe I've ever seen your butt move quite that way." Eve: "It's a cop's butt now, ace, so watch it." Roarke: "I am." He smiled, gave it a nice solid smack. "Believe me." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4c4e6b8 | And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate. | money | Dodie Smith | |
| f05e975 | There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 244f7d9 | And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2047c0d | They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining! | war weather | Charles Frazier | |
| b8c84d7 | I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams! | Roald Dahl | ||
| 3c92f9c | We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 1d899f2 | Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 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. | jokes kel raoul | Tamora Pierce | |
| 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. | neil-gaiman peas revolting | 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. | choose decision simon-lewis | 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 |