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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 899a5c7 | A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor." | humor lestat logic luxury meaning reason singer vampire | Anne Rice | |
| 34f8e9b | I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 017c679 | And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. | Albert Camus | ||
| 9991c08 | How old are you?" "Seventeen," he answered promptly. "And how long have you been seventeen?" His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while," he admitted at last." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d5c248b | Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls, from my brain to his. I wanted to make him understand some things. You know all that stuff we've always said about you?" I whispered. "What a total pain you are? Don't believe it. Don't believe it for a minute, Marley." He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that .. | John Grogan | ||
| 195a63d | Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know. | John Berendt | ||
| 88a4c7c | How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 0282655 | Jeb: But I need to tell you something first. Max (thinking): | James Patterson | ||
| 6f10e5f | I've got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 07a8d57 | Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty. | Lee Child | ||
| 93263dc | See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds." | William Goldman | ||
| e421a33 | You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! Love and Love and Love Again, Stargirl. | love stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | |
| e9db03f | I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotional." | David Levithan | ||
| 4bbbe67 | Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchan.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| cdf0420 | and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 928b6cb | Don't do it. Don't love me. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| dc845f1 | But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality. | engineering war | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| ebc7648 | Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ede4fe3 | It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 357f6df | Yes, I'm a hermit. Mostly I brood," Mad Rogan said. "Also, I'm very good at wallowing in self-pity. I spend my days steeped in melancholy, looking out the window. Occasionally a single tear quietly rolls down my cheek." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d81ec44 | Give me a few minutes." "You have time." He sat in the grass. "Are you just going to sit there and watch me?" "Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best." "Peasant?" He shrugged. "You started the name calling." | flirting sarcasm | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3eac743 | I've had a lot of practice. The Pack contains thirty-two species in seven tribes, each with their own hang-up. Jackals and coyotes pick fights with wolves, because they have an inferiority complex and think they've got something to prove. Wolves believe themselves to be superior, marry the wrong people, and then refuse to divorce them because they cling to their 'mating for life' idiocy. Hyenas listen to nobody, screw everything, and break.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4a1b962 | Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats. | death | Tom Stoppard | |
| 0dce3cb | Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say? | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 6b4e17c | How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them! | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| b17ffc0 | Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.) | faustus hell lucifer mephistopheles | Christopher Marlowe | |
| d99db7c | What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness or silence. | Beth Revis | ||
| 47043f7 | You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a30b3ac | Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 927c83a | If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| ba650d0 | The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument. | god human life spiritual | Anonymous | |
| 500f0c6 | The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul. | Anonymous | ||
| fcfa4d3 | A BIRTHDAY Something continues and I don't know what to call it though the language is full of suggestions in the way of language but they are all anonymous and it's almost your birthday music next to my bones these nights we hear the horses running in the rain it stops and the moon comes out and we are still here the leaks in the roof go on dripping after the rain has passed smell of ginger flowers slips through the dark house down near t.. | love | W.S. Merwin | |
| b7d54f3 | Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. | ironic rights war wwii yossarian | Joseph Heller | |
| f739db3 | This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world. | gazebo pessimism | Raymond Carver | |
| 1f52e9a | When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead, we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| f4a5fe2 | It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| 2e2dc83 | I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history. { ] | bloody cross grief jefferson priests religious-violence thomas-jefferson | John Adams | |
| 6912fbd | Do you know why a heart lays claim? Survival. That heart lays its claim to ensure survival of its kind. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3a5ac68 | Anyway, back to the kids." "Well, one is a girl who looks about your age, and there's a boy." She grinned as she stood. "He's a hottie." A tiny piece of egg caught in my throat. It was seriously gross to hear Mom talking about boys my age. "Hottie? Mom that's just weird." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 057eb65 | And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 5b4d5e2 | Cupid said. "Great," Jason said. "Now he's spouting greeting card messages." | eros heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace love percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 7e41850 | Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. | equity fairness inspirational | Rick Riordan | |
| 372b889 | Eat bitter, taste sweet | Rick Riordan |