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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f38a57c | Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I'd fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who'd turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes--well, it gives "breaking your heart" a new meaning." -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 70990e5 | The River Styx,' Annabeth murmured. 'It's so...' 'Polluted,' Charon said. 'For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across - hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me. | Rick Riordan | ||
| f60cc07 | The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8c648ef | The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!" "Awesome," Percy said. "Could we get two orders of that to go?" | percy-jackson sarcasm | Rick Riordan | |
| 99bb5dd | Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?" Blackjack whinnied. " | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| dda4ffa | Want to hit Leo? That is understandable Hunk muffin earned it | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3520d61 | After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 5a28b8f | Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 7515b72 | You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain When it falls slow and free. Imitate the habit of twilight, Taking time to open the well of color That fostered the brightness of day. | John O'Donohue | ||
| fad845e | Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle. | responsibility slaughter meat eating | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 4278714 | Somewhere, far, far away, there's a shitty island. An island without a name. An island not worth giving a name. A shitty island with a shitty shape. On this shitty island grow palm trees that also have shitty shapes. And the palm trees produce coconuts that give off a shitty smell. Shitty monkeys live in the trees, and they love to eat these shitty-smelling coconuts, after which they shit the world's foulest shit. The shit falls on the grou.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7cca2a6 | Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children." | claire-fraser jamie-fraser | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 0cd2f0a | The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 23b4b29 | In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume. | new-orleans vampires | Anne Rice | |
| 12a1971 | But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four | Albert Camus | ||
| 3f693bc | We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. | Albert Camus | ||
| 933dc46 | To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living. | Albert Camus | ||
| ead14c2 | This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. | Albert Camus | ||
| 7f53cc2 | Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves. | Albert Camus | ||
| a408d60 | At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it. | profound meursault | Albert Camus | |
| 1be26d1 | The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 62d54c2 | Ink, a Drug. | writing ink writers-on-writing | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| b93ad75 | I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 7cdfc6b | Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be. | fear fearless | Carlos Castaneda | |
| ca69c1c | If this was love, love had been overrated. | Henry James | ||
| bc80021 | I love it when he cocks an eyebrow whenever I say something he finds clever or amusing. I love listening to his boots clomp across my bedroom ceiling. I love that the accent over his first name is called an acute accent, and that he has a cute accent. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 2c62816 | Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. | Joan Didion | ||
| b64b512 | The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. | usability technology | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 94cb13b | It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 47fe022 | We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt. | work life pursuit-of-happiness rewards intellect | Ayn Rand | |
| d49aaf0 | Madness breeds madness. | Dan Brown | ||
| 998e387 | You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| b65c621 | The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad r.. | loved-ones helplessness sickness | Charles Dickens | |
| 669a047 | Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encount.. | self-determination | Bryce Courtenay | |
| 077ae2d | It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him. | Herman Melville | ||
| 13e9809 | Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. | fiction fact connection | Umberto Eco | |
| 14c32f9 | That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 261a559 | Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| dbb4a42 | When someone tells you they've just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they're locked into jobs they hate; that they're broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they're fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It's profoundly depressing. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 682c248 | A book, too, can be a star, "explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly," a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c1e1357 | You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 0b40c30 | I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know. | minerva-mcgonagall | J.K. Rowling | |
| 111feb6 | When we were in Diagon Alley,' Harry began, but Mr. Weasley forstalled him with a grimace. Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?' How did you...?' Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 864cee9 | Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby! | harry-potter house-elf | J.K. Rowling |