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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2865f69 | Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex. | complexity inspirational | M. Scott Peck | |
| 2d1c153 | This is the first time I've really looked at my reflection in months." To the Lykae [Bowen], she said, "No wonder you love me. Could I be any cuter?" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8dd7332 | Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. | norms politeness reading society writing | Stephen King | |
| 337e4ff | Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts. | criticism jane-austen | Virginia Woolf | |
| b67f302 | We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't. | painful-memories | Jeanette Winterson | |
| c40b043 | Whoever debases others is debasing himself. | love racism | James Baldwin | |
| fe93b56 | Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. | Willa Cather | ||
| c8b6d25 | That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 552810a | khalepa ta kala Nothing beautiful without struggle. | Plato | ||
| 0e56120 | HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b62fc5f | She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| eb8d341 | You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4d673da | He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 7dd11ba | Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9cb8b3a | Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the room. There was so much I wanted to say. "I need you to be --" I said, and then I started to cry. "Be what?" she said, opening her arms. "Not sad," I said." | Nicole Krauss | ||
| b18487b | Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c3f3fc4 | Humping my leg like a dog in heat every time I'm around you doesn't prove you like me, Daemon.' Daemon clamped his mouth shut, and I could tell he was fighting back laughter. 'Actually, that's how I show people I like them. | katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| d0756ce | I will cherish it always. No matter what may befall the world. No matter the oceans, or mountains, or forests in the way. | tower-of-dawn yrene-towers | Sarah J. Maas | |
| cbf6806 | A cry went up from the witches, save for the Thirteen--who stayed cool and quiet. They did not need to cheer, for they were immortal and infinite and gloriously, wonderfully deadly. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| eff3216 | She had often wished for adventure, for old spells and wicked kings. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 888e1f5 | Faster than lightening, his hand shot out and she gagged, jolting as he grabbed her tongue between his fingers...He released her tongue, and she gasped for breath. She swore at him, a filthy, foul name, and spat at his feet. And that's when he bit her. She cried out as those canines pierced the spot between her neck and shoulder, a primal act of aggression--the bite so strong and claiming that she was too stunned to move. He had her pinned .. | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e2845e6 | Aedion Ashryer let himself be led into the darkness... He did not mind dying. Though he still wished he'd gotten a chance to see her--just once. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| dd02b18 | You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption. | Beth Moore | ||
| fd75581 | I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. | Julia Glass | ||
| 367da5e | Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 9c479a4 | It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| a56cbb0 | Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| e406207 | It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I? | Christopher Moore | ||
| b7f8ad3 | The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| c950d5d | I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner. | fiction supernatural urban-fantasy vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 4264123 | We can love completely what we cannot completely understand. | Norman Maclean | ||
| c2967dd | Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise. | death | Kim Harrison | |
| 1fc5d53 | My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality. | Kim Harrison | ||
| c492d88 | A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. | lord-byron misattributed-edgar-allan-poe woman | George Gordon Byron | |
| 4657f95 | Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. | satire | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| b3d9028 | O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before. | Joan Didion | ||
| 7489d6e | Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage. | James Frey | ||
| c647c63 | I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy. | John Eldredge | ||
| 4764faf | The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 9ca1fb7 | he asked, "Where are you today, right now?" Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I noticed that I was still being sidetracked from getting answers to my questions. Still, I told him about my distant and recent past and about my inexplicable depressions. He listened patiently and intently, as if he had all the time in the world, until I finished several hours later. "Very well," he said. "But you still have not answered my quest.. | listening mystery philosophy universe | Dan Millman | |
| e0c2707 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get acros.. | douglas-adams humor | Douglas Adams | |
| a65685c | The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start. | music | Jodi Picoult | |
| 21d3a1b | But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ed56280 | Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name? | Anne Rice |