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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 zentime woods walking | 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!" | fate crown-of-midnight | 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. | love hold | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b91fe47 | The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. | stephen | Stephen King | |
| 981beaf | God always punishes us for what we can't imagine. | Stephen King | ||
| 8270262 | They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted. | Betty Smith | ||
| 2f07ee2 | An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know. All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one sh.. | women subjectivity | Virginia Woolf | |
| 273aa38 | All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot. | misandry misogyny sexism | Virginia Woolf | |
| 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." | judith-mcnaught elizabeth ian | 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? | world talk | L.M. Montgomery | |
| d4b40fb | Very well, I promise. So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" croaked Artemis. "And a T-shirt" ...Artemis took several breaths. "Does the T-shirt have any writing on it?" A rustling of paper crackled through the phone's speakers. "Yes, it's so cool. There's a picture of a boy who for some reason has no neck and only three fingers on each hand, and behind him in this sort of graffiti style is the words RAND.. | atlantis-complex randomosity t-shirt jeans | Eoin Colfer | |
| b822c77 | God knows better than we do what we need. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0b2fae0 | Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour. | gluttony sin | Victor Hugo | |
| 566ecc4 | I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a168a14 | So, I do what any reasonable person would do when faced with a crying girl. I get the frex out of there. | elder | Beth Revis | |
| 1e3b69d | My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her | poetry innocence | Sarah Kay | |
| b2e9ef6 | I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, 'Is there ANYTHING about this scene you can change, Liz?' And all I could think to do was stand up, whle still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of the living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn't stop the tears or change my dismal interior dial.. | sadness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 99cf389 | In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace. | light darkness god wisdom mercy peace | Anonymous | |
| ef299d7 | Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. | William Goldman | ||
| 8f2197f | You leaned your head into mine, and I leaned my head into yours. Dancing cheek to cheek. Revolving slowly, eyes closed, heartbeat measure, nature's hum. It lasted the length of an old song, and then we stopped, kissed, and my heart stayed there, just like that. | David Levithan | ||
| 9991d70 | My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure. | war wine | Charles Bukowski | |
| 6c9d9b8 | It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself. | David Mitchell | ||
| f6611c5 | That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become. | war comfort hand-grenade shay specials uglies | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 96fe518 | I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.' Now that would be a neat trick. | magic-strikes ilona-andrews kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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-as-leadership teaching | 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." | poetry book-collecting | 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 .. | humor philosophy elvis-presley religious-beliefs galaxy justification atheism atheist elvis obvious | 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 |