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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | politics nations | 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. | war hope gandalf | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2704279 | Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. | life indifference desire | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | world love victim power | 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.. | families eating-disorders | 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 | |
| 953dace | But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself. | fiction russian-literature russian | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 9bdab8b | I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f43637f | Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.' Is he?' All boys are. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 50cf732 | They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Oma.. | library alexandria caliph caliph-omar gregory-the-great koran library-of-alexandria pontiff quran intolerance science-vs-religion gospel islam | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 61a599c | Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. | David Levithan | ||
| 5ac5bc1 | At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| b974376 | A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose. | life inspirational sailor ship wind | Avi | |
| 33aa93a | Writing is such a damn lonely sickness. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8a0f54a | It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f07a597 | Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 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 humor myrnin ghost-town morganville-vampires 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 | ||
| 013b011 | The road of life is strewn with the bodies of promising people. People who show promise, yet lack the confidence to act. People who make promises they are unable to keep. People who promise to do tomorrow what they could do today. Promising young stars, athletes, entrepreneurs who wait for promises to come true. Promise without a goal and a plan is like a barren cow. You know what she could do if she could do it, but she can't. Turn your pr.. | inspirational goals-in-life | Iyanla Vanzant | |
| a4be6ae | I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear! | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 4eb59b6 | Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. | good terry-pratchett good-omens neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| e182c46 | I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth. | humor modern-youth | Georgette Heyer |