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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aae5e33 | if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| c354df1 | When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. .. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 687d3f5 | She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side. | death emily-dickinson rebirth | Emily Dickinson | |
| 81014d4 | I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mea.. | mortality past | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 30ce97c | It's a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you're cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 893e927 | You're the only man I know who can have sex with a woman who looks that good and be in this bad a mood ten minutes later. Damn, didn't you know sex is supposed to make you feel better? (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 65d8c18 | You are the only warmth in my heart. The only sunshine my winter has ever known. (Talon) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a2fdde1 | Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted. | debate | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 74f54dc | Maturity is highly overrated. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 0b28f27 | Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-etre hier, je ne sais pas. | Albert Camus | ||
| fec011a | Here's to responsibility, twice a week.', | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 85a81e3 | It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back. | nostalgia | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 5aad1d6 | Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart. | Amy Tan | ||
| 45e3328 | Como un angel," I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| e78101e | Distance makes the heart grow fonder. | perfect-chemistry sierra | Simone Elkeles | |
| 5bbe66e | Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 1158a51 | You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 2b116e5 | Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. | William Shakespeare | ||
| bb9a17e | I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains. | drinking brain thief stealing | William Shakespeare | |
| ddc0a99 | For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scen.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8839acd | I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !" -- | Lewis Carroll | ||
| da3904d | One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 34e8f47 | Why didn't you guys dress up?" Lindsey asks. "We did." Calliope cracks her first smile. "we're dressed as twins." Lindsey grins back. "Hmm, I see it now. Fraternal or identical?" "You'd be surprised how many people ask," Cricket says. "What do you tell them?" Lindsey asks. "That I have a penis." Oh God. My cheeks burn as they all burst into laughter. Think about something else, Dolores. ANYTHING else. Cucumbers, Bananas, Zucchini. AHHHH! NO.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| a3acbaa | You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?" | James Patterson | ||
| 628272d | Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. | questions | Miriam Toews | |
| 56fc4f8 | You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else. | Paul Auster | ||
| 4b3008c | I am. I think. I will. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0d2a1b2 | Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game. | Philip Roth | ||
| b9a288c | To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend... I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship. | Robert Harris | ||
| 1286118 | This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete. | writing muse discipline | Steven Pressfield | |
| 4731856 | The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it | Ted Dekker | ||
| 36e4469 | Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them? | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8ca1538 | Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! | Charles Dickens | ||
| ba247be | Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding, "the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people--and this is true whether or not they are well-educated--is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by .. | intelligence | Neal Stephenson | |
| 5f0e680 | You are -- truly your father's son, Harry. . . . | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ef7d4f9 | In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable. | stupidity luck | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 1413ecc | Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f98678b | Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ea4a7f9 | When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires | heaven humor firefighting kate-fitzgerald father hell | Jodi Picoult | |
| 55f3878 | You'd think a bit of kissing would cheer her up. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 98b19b7 | Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid." "I don't --" "I cared about you too much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as.. | sacrifice love devotion | J.K. Rowling | |
| 944a9d9 | I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 230fdda | But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. | kartik | Libba Bray | |
| bc9ddb0 | Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it. | Ann Patchett |