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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 96f9720 | A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ad57b9f | It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you." | samwise-gamgee | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2d400db | This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder | love romance | Jodi Picoult | |
| 09f8b00 | Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There's another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the There's the song that reminds me of using fake ID to get into a nightclub; and the one that brings back my cousin Isobel's sweet sixteen, where I played Seven Minutes in Heaven with a boy whose br.. | music | Jodi Picoult | |
| 24256aa | One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before. | Anne Rice | ||
| 692773f | Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can't touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick) Oh the horror. Guess I'll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| aad2466 | You were just worried about me." An exhale, relieved that I'd understood. "Yeah." I turned. "Because you think I'm worth it." He put his fingers under my chin. "I absolutley think you're worth it." "But you don't think you are." His mouth opened. Shut. "That's what this is about, Derek. You won't let us worry about you because you don't think you're worth it. But I do. I absolutley do. I lifted onto my toes, put my hands around his neck, an.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 43c02b6 | There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| c87fb74 | hmyshh rwzhyy hst khh nsn dr an khsny r khh dwst dshth st, bygnh my ybd | Albert Camus | ||
| 6874b87 | Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. | rebellion | Albert Camus | |
| 9c154dc | To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| fcfbd85 | Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 3b2e123 | There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 3c093bf | Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no.. | time | John Steinbeck | |
| e849914 | A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 7fc15b5 | Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother. | yo-mamma-jokes | William Shakespeare | |
| 46f4be3 | My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white. | William Shakespeare | ||
| c32b301 | Where in the bloody hell did that come from?" asks the other person behind the counter. Or more precisely, on top of the counter, where her ridiculously attractive, English-accented boyfriend is perched. He's the other thing I like about Anna. Wherever she goes, he follows. He nods toward the baby wipe. "What else are you carrying in your pockets? Dust rags? Furniture polish?" "Watch it," she says. "Or I'll scrub your arms, Etienne." He gri.. | etienne-st-clair | Stephanie Perkins | |
| ad3ae05 | History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| bfac4d3 | Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" | maxride | James Patterson | |
| e97b421 | We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in. | self-editing | Charles de Lint | |
| aa7bb96 | She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| b9f0cba | You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--" "Sir?" "--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." | Harper Lee | ||
| 0aed39d | 3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum. | internet-slang | David Levithan | |
| d9bd0d4 | Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. | booksellers loneliness | Alain de Botton | |
| 060b5cc | I knew it would be you | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 76db584 | The center snaps the ball to the quarterback!" "No he doesn't!" "He doesn't?" "NO! Secretly, he's the quarterback for the other team! He keeps the ball!" "A traitor!" "Calvin breaks for the goal." "Wheeee! He's at the 30... the 20... the 10! Nobody can catch him!" "Nobody wants to! Your running toward your own goal!" "Huh?!" "When I learned that you were a spy, I switched goals. This is your goal and mine's hidden!" "Hidden?!" "You'll never.. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 907ba68 | And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag. | fire humor mistakes ship | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 0a4e5e7 | The journey is the treasure. | quests salamon | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 689cd31 | I tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 15b1fee | And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions." You play a farce, which I merely laugh at." I ask you to pass through life at my side--to be my second self, and best earthly companion." For that fate you have already made your choice, and must abide by it." Jane, be still a few moments: you are over-excited: I will be still too." A waft of wind came sweeping down th.. | marriage marriage-proposal | Charlotte Brontë | |
| f80ab5e | Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better. | gender | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| b056dad | There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world. | jealousy | Nikolai Gogol | |
| 2ddca30 | sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| a49572b | There was once a man who lost his shadow. I forget what happened to him, but it was dreadful. As for me, I've lost my own image. I did not look at it often; but it was there, in the background, just as Maurice had drawn it for me. A straightforward, genuine, "authentic" woman, with out mean-mindedness, uncompromising, but at the same time understanding, indulgent, sensitive, deeply feeling, intensely aware of things and of people, passionat.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| d502369 | The Lord is close to the broken hearted. He rescues the crushed in spirit. [Psalm 34:18] | Anonymous | ||
| c6a35eb | A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot." | Robert Greene | ||
| c4c56df | The little things, I can obey. The big things--how we think, what we value--those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone--or any society--determine those for you. | self-determination | Mitch Albom | |
| 1f35194 | But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the do.. | unconditional-love | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 21f880d | His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. | library words | Ray Bradbury | |
| 3f492e5 | Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones"." -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 420b889 | Hell, I'd keep her in Bubble Wrap if it weren't so damn creepy and also inconvenient, considering I had a terrible habit of obsessively popping the damn things until not a single bubble was left. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 364c20f | It had insta-love, the bane of my existence. Girl sees boy and falls in love. Immediately. Soul mate, breath stealing, toes curling, love after one conversation. Boy pushes girl away for some paranormal reason or another. Girl still loves boy. Boy finally admits love. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5007b73 | Did you think you could stop me?" Power shot from me, smacking into the door behind Dawson, blowing it off the hinges and into the house. "I'll burn the world down to save her." | Jennifer L. Armentrout |