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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | intuition self-betrayal | 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 | ||
| 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.. | love marriage | 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 .. | derek funny kate-daniels roof | 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 | |
| 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. | literature reading words | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| d15079c | To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. | entrapment husbands marriage matrimony wives | 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.. | burden development dream facts fear feeling free future gods heart inspirational joy knowledge purpose reform slavery thought threat weak worship | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| 3e05bc6 | It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 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 | ||
| fbf8c06 | Madness, and then illumination. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a86fc24 | As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. | beauty beauty-and-the-beast love reasoning trust | Robin McKinley | |
| aaab9c0 | We're still going to be seeing each other," he murmured. "And don't even lie. I know that makes you happy, You told me you wanted me." Hold your horses. "When?" "At the lake." He slanted his headm and I should've pulled back. His lips curved knowingly against mine, and he let go of my wrist. "You said you wanted me." Both of my hand were on his chest. They had a mind of their own. I claimed no responsibility for them. "I had a fever. Lost m.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| eab90ce | The smile was still on his face, but his words were like the arctic winds. "You don't talk to her. At all." There was no stopping He-Man when he came out to play." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 019105b | At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love--just enough to feed the birds. | Henry Miller | ||
| 3a2afa5 | Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b9852ed | I try very hard to be annoying. Don't insult my ability to annoy. | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| dd0bee9 | The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck - mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. 'That thing is really red,' Percy muttered. 'I wonder if it's cherry-flavoured.' 'Why don't you swim over and find out?' Annabeth asked. 'How about no. | percy-jackson the-blood-of-olympus | Rick Riordan | |
| bbd8c3f | Zoe ordered the Hunters to start loading. She picked up her camping pack, and Apollo said, "Here, sweetheart. Let me get that." Zoe recoiled. Her eyes flashed murderously. "Brother," Artemis chided. "You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do call them sweetheart." | artemis zoe-nightshade | Rick Riordan | |
| 5176896 | I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one. | historical-romance love realization you-and-me-babe | Julie Garwood | |
| 09f3490 | But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the river. Or a passerby in the mist in a hat. He was exasperated because he didn't know what that look . He put it somewhere between indifference and despair. He didn't know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair compete.. | despair desperation exasperation eyes indifference nationality peace personal public smallness war | Arundhati Roy | |
| 9635085 | Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 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 | ||
| 25e027d | Morality, too, is a question of time. | Gabriel García Márquez |