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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| d78af54 | There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 03a29ca | Where do the ducks go in the winter? | J.D. Salinger | ||
| c795ad4 | I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 31fc694 | The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. | politics | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 094fe19 | Celaena walked and walked, until she found herself by the tree-lined shore of a lake, glaringly bright in the midday sun. She figured it was as good a spot as any as she crumpled to the mossy bank, as her arms wrapped tight around herself and she bowed over her knees. There was nothing that could be done to fix her. And she was...she was... A whimpering noise came out of her, lips trembling to hard she had to clamp down to keep the sound i.. | celaena-sardothien | Sarah J. Maas | |
| a6fce1a | But this is war. We don't have the luxury of good ideas--only picking between the bad ones. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 907ff13 | Rhys flipped back the lid. A note lay atop the golden metal of the book. I read your letter. About the woman you love. I believe you. And I believe in peace. I believe in a better world. If anyone asks, you stole this during the meeting. Do not trust the others. The sixth queen was not ill. | negotiations rhysand sixth-queen | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0e63737 | She wondered whether the queen knew. Rowan did. Aedion did. And Arobynn did. He had understood that with Rowan, she was no longer afraid of him; with Rowan, Arobynn was now utterly unnecessary. Irrelevant. | aelin-galathynius arobynn-hamel lysandra queen-of-shadows rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 4533edc | You are tired, (I think) Of the always puzzle of living and doing; And so am I. Come with me, then, And we'll leave it far and far away-- (Only you and I, understand!) You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and-- Just tired. So am I. But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight, And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart-- Open to me! For I will .. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 1d88d28 | That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0be3c38 | Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6ba249e | She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better." "Define BETTER with that guy." "Not all fangs and raaaaar." | funny ghost-town humor michael-glass morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine shane-collins teacher vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 3b6fedc | And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger's heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years. | death dustfinger | Cornelia Funke | |
| ec49833 | Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. | religion skepticism | Sam Harris | |
| b8ad8b8 | B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. | open-mindedness preconceptions self-discovery | Alan Alda | |
| e31e55f | One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad. He told of Pain and Rain and Cold, He told of Darkness in his soul, And after he finished his tale of woe, Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no, They laughed until they shook the trees... And while the world laughed outside. Cloony the Clown sat down and cried." | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 3b8b224 | You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 87e7785 | Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |