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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0687006 | Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 074feaf | If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 560f787 | Memory believes before knowing remembers. | William Faulkner | ||
| 3c01942 | The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good." | inspirational | C.S. Lewis | |
| a4915a7 | In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. He is lucky beyond desert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group is together; each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions; wh.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| ec7dcc5 | It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| a3912fe | Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| cdc8ae6 | Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now." | Raymond Carver | ||
| 98c3996 | I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. | John Updike | ||
| 4d7cfc6 | Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| cda5bec | Fang laughed as he shoved Vane away 'Man, quit hugging on me. You are a perv." Vane punched him in the arm. "You're such an a**hole," Trace gasped. "Daddy said a bad word!" Fang said "You tell him pup. Keep your daddy straight." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 14fbe97 | Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good." Chloe and Derek" -- | derek lauren | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 504949c | Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. | humorous insprirational | vladimir nabokov | |
| 30f58ba | They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no partic.. | identity knowledge | Joseph Conrad | |
| 2141691 | It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 87200e6 | Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and letting her head rest on his shoulder. God, he felt good. Her man. Where her head was meant to lie, right there, on him. "What's the difference?" "A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit." | fairy-tales funny | Erin McCarthy | |
| 357ca75 | Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What -- suddenly you've magically turned into Noam Chomsky? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 008ad25 | Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 39e0742 | His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! | inspirational-quotes | William Shakespeare | |
| 23e229d | Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 147d9c1 | For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us. | self-betrayal intuition | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 2dd21de | It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--..." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 25e027d | Morality, too, is a question of time. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 40e0811 | But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. | fight-back troubles | Dr Seuss | |
| d50463c | He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ba3cb32 | The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness. | William Golding | ||
| 0460dbb | That was beautiful. She is holding my hand. No, it wasn't. If she let go, I would fall apart. It was. It was beautiful because it was honest and it was beautiful because it hurt and it was beautiful because you didn't have to tell it to me. Fall apart. It makes me feel like shit. | James Frey | ||
| c713220 | The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. | writing-life | Steven Pressfield | |
| 87cffe5 | We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things. | hard-times | Annie Proulx | |
| 274a39e | And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! | Charles Dickens | ||
| eec1865 | Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 20705f3 | I have detected disturbances in the wash.' 'The wash?' 'The space-time wash.' 'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?' 'Eddies in the space-time continuum.' 'Ah...is he. Is he.' 'What?' 'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly? | Douglas Adams | ||
| efc0f17 | Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8aa7dea | Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3dcf80e | Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dcaf945 | Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. | inspirational mad-eye-moody | J. K. Rowling | |
| b081219 | There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1ae4bf8 | Black's gaunt face broke into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| faee09e | Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ff5b5a0 | Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 617cff3 | Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot." | sherlock | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 9c6ed1e | You have to keep recycling yourself. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 36d5acb | Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? | Max Lucado | ||
| d53a1f4 | I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win. | Paulo Coelho |