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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
465fb5d | After all this time?" "Always..." | J.K. Rowling | ||
2fdec0d | What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more.. | sadness happiness life kronofobi judgement reincarnation | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
9ae9fcf | The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE. | Meg Cabot | ||
c298d58 | Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. | love fidelity | Charlotte Brontë | |
4e10aa8 | Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. | wisdom timidity paradox mistakes | Oscar Wilde | |
c5c8e72 | It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you. | Roald Dahl | ||
6fb30bd | Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are | individuality inspirational misattributed self-acceptance | Kurt Cobain | |
6c0ec7f | People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for.. | inspirational | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
5859d23 | Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great and now you're just friends. Drives girls crazy. Know what I mean?" Yes. Clary thought. "No." Clary said." | Cassandra Clare | ||
b4de595 | We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
5a7504b | The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. | William Gibson | ||
036cdcd | I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! | stars people human humanity self-awareness inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring strength life truth inspirational supernova | C. JoyBell C. | |
d3ff57b | Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention -- but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. | jem-carstairs will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
f132366 | I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. | inspirational | Taylor Swift | |
431c788 | Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. | prejudice | Charlotte Brontë | |
0c2c5b8 | We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. | loss fear hope life love the-infernal-devices jem-carstairs shadowhunters memory | Cassandra Clare | |
e180ca6 | He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, .. | romance love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
7635e0a | That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them! | literature life messages | Connie Willis | |
bad4cec | In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive. | struggles life-lessons point-of-no-return problems | Haruki Murakami | |
a68ae1b | If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. | futility dreams castles-in-the-air work-lost foundations security goals | Henry David Thoreau | |
e51cb45 | Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down. | Margaret Atwood | ||
f52af28 | I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome. | the-last-olympian | Rick Riordan | |
3dd9ed8 | I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. | Mario Puzo | ||
84f73d2 | Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you. | life | Bill Bryson | |
ae9d501 | You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better." | simon-lewis gay fashion | Cassandra Clare | |
9fea763 | There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. | John Green | ||
f9f1a88 | Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. | understanding men happy sadness ladies | William Shakespeare | |
e3cc4df | Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto. | David Sedaris | ||
fdc56c6 | Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. | humor wise | John Green | |
8689a84 | There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. | be-yourself women beauty success happiness life inspirational comfortable imperfection body-image rare | Steve Maraboli | |
7551862 | At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it." -- | loss | Arthur Golden | |
9ff86dc | Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world. | jocelyn-fray fragility | Cassandra Clare | |
1143d12 | Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. | thank-you | Nicholas Sparks | |
fa598af | People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
fc3c6cf | I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself | inspirational | D.H. Lawrence | |
fb46595 | Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question." "D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern. "Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two:.. | remus-lupin james-potter sirius-black werewolf | J.K. Rowling | |
c6eb014 | Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk.. | sociology psychology | Susan Cain | |
3191f3f | This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays. | sci-fi | Douglas Adams | |
ba0c6d8 | A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness. | nature work music happiness life neighborliness usefulness conduct-of-life country rest contentment | Leo Tolstoy | |
43dbad6 | Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be." | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
addd5d2 | There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. | fairy-tales inspirational | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) | |
b6342b9 | I am still so naive; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe? | Sylvia Plath | ||
9d3e47c | Can I come in? | iggy maximum-ride max | James Patterson | |
1f43943 | Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be l.. | Kahlil Gibran |