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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| de01274 | Were knowledge all, what were our nee | inspirational love philosophical poetry | Christopher Brennan | |
| efb45cc | It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. | advice-for-daily-living fear-and-loathing grief inspirational sorrow | Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
| 4a716cf | There are people who have money and people who are rich. | inspirational rich-people | Coco Chanel | |
| 6886bc6 | It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood | childhood inspirational love mister-rogers-neighborhood television | Fred Rogers | |
| 2d64ce8 | It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need. | inspirational life mental-health needs overreaction reaction wants wisdom | Amy Poehler | |
| 392e24e | But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on. | complain dexter inspirational | Jeff Lindsay | |
| 4e814eb | He is coming, and I am here. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 34381c5 | Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so? Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e65d563 | and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure. | love power victim world | Stephen King | |
| b641b15 | He killed them with their love | Stephen King | ||
| 86d28d5 | Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. | Stephen King | ||
| 490eef5 | She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 8f482af | After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn't say, "I fuck therefore I am"." | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6de7f57 | Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more. | diary-of-a-young-girl | Anne Frank | |
| a1bf139 | If you'll kiss me back," he whispered huskily, brushing his lips along the curve of her jaw, "I'll make it six million. If you'll go to bed with me tonight," he continued, losing himself in the scent of her perfume and the softness of her skin, "I'll give you the world. But if you'll move in with me," he continued, dragging his mouth across her cheek to the corner of her lips, "I'll do much better than that." Unable to turn her face farther.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 4b62ab4 | Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?" -Royce Westmoreland" | yield | Judith McNaught | |
| 8bca5ea | If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in si.. | eating-disorders families | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 98e9eb8 | Rule #1: You may bring only what fits in your backpack. Don't try to fake it with a purse or a carry-on. Rule #2: You may not bring guidebooks, phrase books, or any kind of foreign language aid. And no journals. Rule #3: You cannot bring extra money or credit/debit cards, travelers' checks, etc. I'll take care of all that. Rule #4: No electronic crutches. This means no laptop, no cell phone, no music, and no camera. You can't call home or c.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 41c9a3d | I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 70d2c91 | Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies? | philosophy-of-life soul | Plato | |
| d9327cb | Enjoying it? I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr. Crouch... Mr. Crouch is of the opinion... Mr. Crouch was telling me... They'll be announcing their engagement any day now. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| a200fd0 | Cupcake, your middle name is trouble. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 6282499 | From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8a598a2 | It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 686c6fe | Everything has a price. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 84ea821 | Live, Manon. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a2491e9 | People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a0c9ffa | ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features. Death glanced .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| befe081 | Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands." She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good." | funny ghost-town humor morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| c2922c7 | Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again. | David Sedaris | ||
| 3b5835b | The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment. | Jules Verne | ||
| bb54ffe | We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. | Richard Bach | ||
| c99216b | When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?" | Alice Sebold | ||
| 54e9db1 | You cannot say to the sun, or to the rain, To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 0516841 | There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. | Jack London | ||
| cf7c2e7 | There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 2866508 | Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan. | nations politics | Frank Herbert | |
| 6114c1b | I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 2befa65 | Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand---that and such hope as I bring. | gandalf hope war | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2704279 | Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. | desire indifference life | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 5b98933 | We're not naked, we're skyclad! | kelley-armstrong pagan | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 9beafba | We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too. | humor | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 76fff7f | I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. | Albert Camus | ||
| ad30bd5 | For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiance,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too. | Albert Camus |