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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| be72276 | There are no wrong roads to anywhere. | Norton Juster | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | loneliness booksellers | 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. | humor ship mistakes fire | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 0a4e5e7 | The journey is the treasure. | salamon quests | 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 | ||
| b41d0ed | i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes | e.e. cummings | ||
| c8c39f1 | This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever.. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1e84f6d | Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common. | friends entertaining socializing drugs | David Sedaris | |
| 40307c8 | As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven." | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 424f675 | You and I are bound. We will be each other's salvation, or each other's doom. | P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast | ||
| 7adc0e2 | The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b05044a | Do you forget that I am your sister?" "No; I've never been granted the opportunity to forget it." | sister | Georgette Heyer | |
| 0862fc4 | Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 7418293 | Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 58de8d4 | There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especia.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 68a63b5 | When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c2c5b56 | Tessa: I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" Will: "I've never swum naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin." | tessa will | Cassandra Clare | |
| a77cc20 | For so many years she had wondered what her first kiss would be like - if he would be handsome, if he would love her, if he would be kind. She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| cc8c21e | Whatever it is, don't do it!" said Catarina. "It's a bad idea." "And why do you say that?" "Because they're the only kind you have," she said. "I have known you a long time, and I am absolutely certain on this subject. If you are planning to become a pirate again, it's a bad idea." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 3f5ceea | And now I'm looking at you," he said, "and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger that anyone else ever has. I never dared to give much of myself to anyone before , but Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me." For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught t.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 58cc68e | Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est | jace mortal-instruments latin | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4d3dd68 | In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| ed927aa | At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. And that is what the Pulse exposed five days ago. | evolution horror | Stephen King | |
| 73890b5 | And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended. | love | Stephen King | |
| d40fb6a | It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy. | time loneliness sadness melancholy | Tim Winton | |
| f2e792b | From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile." | middle-finger rehvenge j-r-ward lover-reborn wrath king | J.R. Ward | |
| 1bacecc | Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now. | J.R. Ward | ||
| ec21eb7 | When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human"." | psychological fullmetal-alchemist roy-mustang | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| 7adeaba | Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied by the last words of the already dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life. | the-labyrinth the-labyrinth-of-suffering the-great-perhaps | John Green | |
| 88186ae | We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 9481877 | I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor" | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| dfafe16 | Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 4a64127 | It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me. | Jim Carroll |