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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f72a802 | I checked out your blog.' Oh. Dear. Baby. Jesus. How did he find it? Wait. More importantly was the fact he HAD found it. Was my blog now googleable? That was awesomesauce with an extra heaping of sauce. | katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| f3293f6 | The baboon is driving," I noted. "Should I be worried?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0d22c55 | Is Tyson okay?" I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter" is a strange battle cry. "You let him fight?" Stop changing the subject! You realize what you are asking me to do? My palace will be destroyed. "And Olympus might be saved." Do you have any idea how long I've worked on remodeling this palace? The game room alone took six hundred years. "Dad--" Very we.. | poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| 4c2c7f7 | She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 00ccd90 | They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word . These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6d2f3da | I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. | faith god | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| fd8dcde | It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bd6ffef | You don't get it, do you?" I said. "It's not a question of 'what then'. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?" | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 92efe89 | Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2d6c0af | The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by the overwhelming credentials of science, the beauty and elegance of the scientific method, the triumph of modern medicine over physical ailments, and the technological transformation of the very world itself, the self finds itself in the e.. | recreation world-weariness the-self society modernity technology | Walker Percy | |
| 39bae91 | An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e1f905a | My faceless neighbor spoke up: "Don't be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve." I exploded: "What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." | history genocide holocaust hitler jews germany | Elie Wiesel | |
| 6658984 | He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 4e93310 | The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpki.. | october | Ray Bradbury | |
| d5848cd | It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c9f5b9e | And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. | writing-philosophy | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9a25533 | It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 00e1573 | I know you all have families who love you so if you want to leave-. (Acheron) We wouldn't be here if we didn't want to. You and Val fought to save my sister when no one else would have bothered. I haven't forgotten it. (Vane) And I haven't forgotten what the Dark-Hunters did for me and Maggie. (Wren) Yeah, we're family. Psychotic, bizarre and a hodgepodge of personalities that should probably never be blended, but here we are. Now let's go .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8387b46 | I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake. | love inspirational supporters support | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 735ff05 | Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. | Albert Camus | ||
| 5af8cee | Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom. | Albert Camus | ||
| 24344bd | But above all, in order to be, never try to seem. | seem authenticity be | Albert Camus | |
| 4874229 | Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also,.. | Albert Camus | ||
| 288f554 | Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 3e62bb6 | Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now | pain world | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 24a978f | The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is clear of clouds, seems to us simply the natural condition of the earth and air. When we think of the downs, we think of the downs in daylight, as with think of a rabbit with its fur on. Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but mos.. | lyrical description | Richard Adams | |
| 384ca80 | She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 4c52eb8 | Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| e452137 | And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don't matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the man who has the chest your head is meant to lie on. | marriage love | Erin McCarthy | |
| fb75943 | A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7987665 | Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth move Doubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love | love | William Shakespeare | |
| 9f8f613 | Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. | Henry James | ||
| bd40cc6 | They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 555b244 | Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth." | James Patterson | ||
| f7270c1 | Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor. | people poor kind | John Steinbeck | |
| fd89ae0 | Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us. | Dan Brown | ||
| 35e7e7b | I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 0d09618 | As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 6a39e92 | Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. | science | Frank Herbert | |
| d4520eb | Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a4d68a7 | We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other, but sometimes, after one of us had read a long portion of the diary out loud, we had to fight back the urge to hug one another or tell each other how pretty we were. We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 950efd3 | But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 51fd725 | Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me. | hate | Dave Pelzer | |
| dd404ea | Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency. | suffering poor | Khaled Hosseini |