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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 sixth-queen rhysand | 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. | arobynn-hamel aelin-galathynius lysandra rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 1fb23fa | I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 7c144e4 | Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear | dream ears self aware | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 15690ef | There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| d8c71ff | We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be. | Dean Koontz | ||
| d4c6b93 | There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke th.. | families | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| b48d79d | Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in My Books?" If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 448b72e | Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well [...] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited---has it made you sure?" | time | James Baldwin | |
| f038680 | When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes." | learning science physics | Richard P. Feynman | |
| ede1585 | In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer... | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| db8ea11 | I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 3d291df | I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. How commonplace and stupid it would be if I had a friend now, sitting beside me, someone I had known at school, who would say: "By-the-way, I saw old Hilda the other day. You remember her, the one who was so good at tennis. She's married, with two children." And the bluebells beside us unnoticed, and the pigeons overhead unheard. I did not want anyone with me. Not eve.. | solitude | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 7d2a647 | How does it feel, anyway?" How does what feel?" When you take one of those books?" At that moment, she chose to keep still. If he wants an answer, he'd have to come back, and he did. "Well?" he asked, but again, it was the boy who replied, before Liesel could even open her mouth. It feels good, doesn't it? To steal something back." -- | steal | Markus Zusak | |
| b5a91bc | The book thief has struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career. | reading | Markus Zusak | |
| 5c5602d | What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5fbfc0f | Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. | words literature reading | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| d15079c | To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. | marriage entrapment wives matrimony husbands | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| fd03a7c | In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convi.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 793b39b | Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture ga.. | free slavery weak worship dream joy future fear heart inspirational development feeling reform facts purpose gods burden threat knowledge thought | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| 9ee5e62 | I must court her now,' said the Prince. 'Leave us alone for a minute.' He rode the white expertly down the hill. Buttercup had never seen such a giant beast. Or such a rider. 'I am your Prince and you will marry me,' Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, 'I am your servant and I refuse.' 'I am your Prince and you cannot refuse.' 'I am your loyal servant and I just did.' 'Refusal means death.' 'Kill me then.' 'I am your Prince and I.. | marriage love | William Goldman | |
| d16f0fb | Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told. | William Goldman | ||
| 67101a4 | Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should! | serena | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| a98e37c | Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. | Leif Enger | ||
| 70f43e1 | Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| d292431 | What did you tell them?" "I don't recall. I think I mentioned your discipline and ability to follow orders. I may have said something about you being a team player." Derek emitted a strangled cough. "Why?" I demanded. "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Curran resumed hammering. "I'm sorry," I said into the phone, sticking me finger into my other ear so I could hear. "His Majesty tends to exaggerate things. I'm not a team player. I'm .. | funny roof derek kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 608c98b | His Majesty needs a can-I girl anyway. And I'm not it." "A can-I girl?" Andrea frowned. I leaned back. " ' Can I fetch you your food, Your Majesty? Can I tell you how strong and mighty you are, Your Majesty? Can I pick out your fleas, Your Majesty? Can I kiss your ass, Your Majesty? Can I..." It dawned on me that Raphael was sitting very still. Frozen, like a statue, his gaze fixed on the point above my head. "He's standing behind me, isn't.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3f975ae | Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech." -- | saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| d63ffb6 | Put your badass faces on and follow me. | derek kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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 humor myrnin michael-glass ghost-town morganville-vampires 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. | preconceptions open-mindedness 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 |