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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 69a74a1 | Because," he said quietly as she stood up, "until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden." Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. "What is it now?" "Heaven." | elizabeth ian judith-mcnaught | Judith McNaught | |
| 49974c1 | I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 2e372f8 | If you don't like my story,write your own | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 53a0f61 | I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world. | James Baldwin | ||
| ab5abbc | Truth exists, only lies have to be invented. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 838f979 | But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about? | talk world | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 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 | |
| 02203fa | Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8f51074 | Self improvement is masturbation... | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8f971ab | Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret. Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it i.. | travel walking woods zentime | Bill Bryson | |
| 35c6ea2 | This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the souvenir of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8149ba4 | Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c6bbe63 | A life without a cause is a life without effect. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| eac139a | I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 021fa01 | Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason...Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You're a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I'm feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I'd give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart. | angsty inspirational | J.D. Salinger | |
| 9b9cb2f | Hide from fate all you like," Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. "But it shall soon find you!" | crown-of-midnight fate | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0b08a2b | But her attention was on the prince across from her, who seemed utterly ignored by his father and his own court, shoved down near the end with her and Aedion. He ate so beautifully, she thought, watching him cut into his roast chicken. Not a drop moved out of place, not a scrap fell on the table. She had decent manners, while Aedion was hopeless, his plate littered with bones and crumbs scattered everywhere, even some on her own dress. She'.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 2711e10 | I can't tell if I should be ashamed of wanting to hold you on this day, or grateful that, despite what happened before now, it somehow brought me to you. | hold love | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 37a026f | Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3f4d548 | Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e5fc09c | My words itch at your ears till you understand them | teaching teaching-as-leadership | Walt Whitman | |
| 8a457fe | Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross." -- | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1fb48f3 | Learning After some time, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and imprisoning a soul; You learn that love does not equal sex, and that company does not equal security, and you start to learn.... That kisses are not contracts and gifts are not promises, and you start to accept defeat with the head up high and open eyes, and you learn to build all roads on today, because the terrain of tomorrow is too insecure for plans.... | life-lessons | Jorge Luis Borges | |
| 6ddfc14 | Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies -- for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry -- I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home." | book-collecting poetry | Jorge Luis Borges | |
| 52ec8be | Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a 'non-astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people .. | atheism atheist elvis elvis-presley galaxy humor justification obvious philosophy religious-beliefs | Sam Harris | |
| 3f1ba43 | My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy. | Norman Maclean | ||
| c5bfd65 | You'll see. She can be nice sometimes. | P.C. Cast | ||
| 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. | technology usability | 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. | intellect life pursuit-of-happiness rewards work | 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.. | helplessness loved-ones 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. | connection fact fiction | 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 | ||
| 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 |