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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dfd56d1 | But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't. | Albert Camus | ||
| 58ff3ca | Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. | creation culture | Albert Camus | |
| 0b52886 | Inspiration in desperation. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| f0de15e | I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to *dream*. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 3bcbf8d | You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 5dd01cf | Because you took advantage of my disadvantage. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| cb48d77 | And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible - and there is absolutely nobody like him. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| a52ee37 | So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name. The problem's name is God. | india religion rushdie salman | Salman Rushdie | |
| c380c51 | I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 4adb2ef | A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| cba4cef | That's it," Rashmi says. "I'm outta here. Enjoy your hormones." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b438ec6 | When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy. | energy | James Redfield | |
| f44ec52 | Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of." - Maximum Ride." | life maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 9f1d6a9 | Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. | commitment love perseverance | Hanif Kureishi | |
| e1b4ecc | If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it. | David Levithan | ||
| 31258ed | When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it. | life living never-give-up | David Levithan | |
| 4dfab72 | Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?" "I have spies everywhere." I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. "She had tea with Mahon's wife." Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. "You and I need to work on your air of mystery." | aunt-b kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| babd1de | And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwis.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 023eb7b | Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons. | Robert Greene | ||
| fce229a | I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently. | Donald Miller | ||
| dc100be | I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. | war wwi | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 4c444bc | You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously." | Joseph Heller | ||
| a9a7a7d | Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply. | feminist women | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 45b71d0 | The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking. | mass-media media tv | Ray Bradbury | |
| c392f38 | I believe that there are people who think as I do, who have thought as I do, who will think as I do. There are those who will live, unconscious of me, but continuing my attitude, so to speak, as I continue, unknowingly, the similar attitude of those before me. I could write and write. All it takes is a motion of the hand in response to a brain impulse, trained from childhood to record in our own American brand of hieroglyphics the translati.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| affbfa1 | That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said." | roses sylvia-plath the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 870c374 | He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers | nico percy-jackson-and-the-olympians | Rick Riordan | |
| bd147a8 | Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. "You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead." Ella fluttered to the ground and began preening her feathers. "Ella found a dog," she announced. "A large dog. And a Cyclops." Was she blushing? Before Percy could decide, his black mastiff pounced on him, knocking Percy to the ground and barking so loudly that even Arion backed up. "Hey, Mrs. O'Leary," Percy said. "Yeah, I love yo.. | hazel-levesque heroes-of-olympus humor mrs-o-leary percy-jackson-and-te-olympians son-of-neptune tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| a12446c | She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7360914 | Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 0042e0d | Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 3e68f98 | Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice. | romance | Milan Kundera | |
| 5b22e8c | Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2955e6b | There's something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it's because they're supposed to be the strong ones, but that's not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 22d338d | Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart." Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e9b0caf | but Sassenach--I am the true home of your heart, and I know that." He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed my upturned palms, one and then the other, his breath warm and his beard-stubble soft on my fingers. "I have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenach--but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands," he said softly. "And you know that." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9e536e8 | And what would you do if you met a jibboo? | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 5ab22a7 | Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone. | indigo | Tom Robbins | |
| 94b2dc2 | This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 31157a1 | By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called "Carl Sagan Memorial Station." But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars." | mars pathfinder | Andy Weir | |
| b489cb1 | An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 55cbb77 | The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| f04cc95 | Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| f244596 | You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. | Oscar Wilde |