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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3f70bb9 | And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5017f82 | Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| cc806b1 | See, they're currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet. Humans. - Newt Scamander | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6808287 | George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1ac983a | Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b5a57c6 | What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a068f88 | Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-" "By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c02cb2d | And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 22b9433 | He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| ebaa66d | It's never too late to do the right thing. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 95dd789 | What are we, after all, without our memories ... without our dreams? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e8595ca | Remember me with joy, for this is how I always thought of you. That is what I want, more than anything. I want you to smile when you think of me. And in your smile, I will live forever | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 425b8c2 | Always live your life with your biography in mind. | life marisha-pessl | Marisha Pessl | |
| a9ba67a | Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God." | catholicism christianity god religion sinners | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 971dc84 | This woman is Pocahontas. She is Athena and Hera. Lying in this messy, unmade bed, eyes closed, this is Juliet Capulet. Blanche DuBois. Scarlett O'Hara. With ministrations of lipstick and eyeliner I give birth to Ophelia. To Marie Antoinette. Over the next trip of the larger hand around the face of the bedside clock, I give form to Lucrezia Borgia. Taking shape at my fingertips, my touches of foundation and blush, here is Jocasta. Lying her.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b1d1483 | The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6ff5901 | The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 95bb5f7 | Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love. | courage inspirational love | Paulo Coelho | |
| c772b23 | To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 474cf3e | That killed me. | J. D. Salinger | ||
| 409f65e | And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 332f2fd | But I forgot to tell him," I said quietly, opening the door, "that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key." | acomaf feyre rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 5beabc3 | You can't go." "Give me a reason why I shouldn't." "Because I'll miss you, damn it!" she hissed, splaying her arms. "Because what's the point in anything if you just disappear forever?" "The point in what, Celaena?" How could he be so calm when she was so frantic? "The point in Skull's Bay, and the point in getting me that music, and the point in... the point in telling Arobynn that you'd forgive him if he never hurt me again." "You said y.. | sam | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e1c6420 | She was surprised that her hands had not forgotten, that somewhere in her mind, after a year of darkness and slavery, music was still alive and breathing. That somewhere, between the notes, was Sam. She forgot about time as she drifted between pieces, voicing the unspeakable, opening old wounds, playing and playing as the sound forgave and saved her. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7c99190 | Words had become as foreign and hard to reach as the stars. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a37040b | The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish. | philosophy | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8672633 | Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere. | funny-and-random humor humorous satire wit witty-quotes | Terry Pratchett | |
| 26698df | I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, whe.. | Miranda July | ||
| f8847bf | Hey," Shane said from the other side of the bars. "Trade you cigarettes for a chocolate bar." Funny," Eve said. She was almost back to her old unGothed self again, though there were still red splotches on her cheeks and around her eyes. "How come you're always behind bars, troublemaker?" Look who's talking. I didn't try to outrun the cops in a hearse." That hearse had horsepower." Eve got that moony look in her eyes again. "I love that hear.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 64138d4 | Have I mentioned how hot Michael is? Hot, hot, hot. I mean, all guitar players are crushworthy - it's like it's issued with the talent - but I've been noticing lately that he is total Hottie McHottie of Hotland. Not that I could tell him that. Luckily, he is a boy. Hence, too dense to figure out why I'm staring at his ass. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 5cfdfe5 | Hess laughed. "You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are you? Not underneath." Oh, I am mousy," she said."All this scares the hell out of me. But I don't know what else to do, sir, except try. Even a mouse bites." | Rachel Caine | ||
| bb8f90c | I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. | insightful | David Sedaris | |
| e0f61c1 | All writers are insane! | insanity writers | Cornelia Funke | |
| 162f113 | Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too." | Richard Bach | ||
| 72d70ce | They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. | William Golding | ||
| 981fea0 | Your first kiss is destiny knocking. | Alice Sebold | ||
| a3386e2 | Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| 4899edc | Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ceb27b2 | A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 52a78ed | Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you." | Charles Dickens | ||
| 80ce7ad | The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture. | storytelling truth | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 11fbff2 | I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly tru.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 78a716d | I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way." | inspirational | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 326ca46 | It's true, and I was really hideous as a preteen. Tall and gawky. I used to bump my head into everything. Still do sometimes. (Kat) You are my daughter. (Acheron) Sure I am, I can't imagine you ever being uncoordinated. (Kat) Oh, I assure you I've nailed quite a few signs with my forehead. It's a wonder 'Exit' isn't permanently imprinted right between my eyes. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |