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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 09dabcc | Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and turn you away from all the people in the town for a little while and sweat you and get you down where you remember you got a nose again. And when you're all to yourself that way, you're really proud of yourself for a little while; you get to thinking things through, alone. Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a phil.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 47548e5 | Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 55378cb | Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. '...then I declare you bonded for life. | romance love hermione-granger | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9ef9c7a | The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 77a4e0f | You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. | faith hope life job | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 291786c | Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. | love | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 9e26a13 | You may lie. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 694a16b | The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. | Libba Bray | ||
| ab0b129 | War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so." | war gorgon law forever win honor | Libba Bray | |
| 8e0d833 | Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells "stop!", goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as lon.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b2e0ac2 | I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him. | love | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 9524804 | I wanted to...feel hatred and love, despair and tedium-- all those simple, yet foolish things that make up everyday life but that give pleasure to your existence. If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy, Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they are crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ad7e525 | I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| cba2f87 | A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be? | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| a522818 | To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. | story living | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d82d3f2 | Go to bed; tired is stupid. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b6bb9a1 | I moaned then, tilting my head back to give him better access. His hands clamped on my waist, then moved--one going to cup my rear, the other sliding between us. This--this moment, when it was him and me and nothing between our bodies ... His tongue scraped the roof of my mouth as he dragged a finger down the center of me, and I gasped, my back arching. "Feyre," he said against my lips, my name like a prayer more devout than any Ianthe had .. | erotic-romance-novellas orgasms erotic-fiction new-adult-fantasy new-adult-lit new-adult-romance smut new-adult erotic erotica | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6002333 | A gold coin says he misses," Fenrys rasped. "Save your breath for healing," Aelin snapped. "Make it two," Aedion said behind them. "I say he hits." "You can all go to hell," Aelin snarled. But then added, "Make it five. Ten says he downs it with the first shot." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 19ed58f | Maeve had lied. Or lied by omission. But she knew. She knew what the girl had gone through-knew she'd been a slave. That day-that day early on, he'd threatened to the girl, gods above. And she had lost it. He'd been such a proud fool that he'd assumed she'd lashed out because she was nothing more than a child. He should have known better-should have known that when she react to something like that, it meant the scars went deep. And then.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c7c2bd9 | What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted--? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster? | heart destruction | Donna Tartt | |
| d451b21 | Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 437c6f8 | The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its pas.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 19d2fc0 | She, too, is one of Regin's friends. They're poker buddies, sisters of the Wii, and Mari is a vaunted member of the karaoke contingent. Regin has long acted as the witches' designated driver." "BFF?" Lachlain asked, brows drawn. "Sisters of the what?" Emma supplied, "Best friend forever and a video game." Lachlain muttered to Emma, "Your relatives are just no' right." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 6dc876b | Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone's chair, but I'm ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm. "Sorry, clumsy," she says. "You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits." Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers fold.. | time-travel lost-love | Stephen King | |
| 83db120 | Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass. | school | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 659d33f | Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. | Willa Cather | ||
| 76a49fe | The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived. | Willa Cather | ||
| ee6d180 | I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. | inspirational | L.M. Montgomery | |
| bfd4b85 | Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? | poetry | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 122d737 | We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love. | bell hooks | ||
| 85fe702 | Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 305519e | You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom. | freedom | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 6cc2ffb | I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. | past | George Eliot | |
| c5abd20 | Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are. | George Eliot | ||
| e9585c7 | T]he unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier--dead, melted wax--demands a response among the living...a response no-one can make. Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous--as if cursed--while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold? Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand ther.. | Steven Erikson | ||
| 0dc3144 | In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn. | Robert Greene | ||
| 1ffd811 | If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it. | David Levithan | ||
| b5fd913 | a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' ) | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 82ec7b5 | Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 562c790 | I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 8b1a6f9 | Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 034e26c | You're Mad Rogan!" Leon burst out. "Yes," Mad Rogan said, his voice calm. "And you can break cities?" "Yes." "And you have all this money and magic?" "Yes." Where was Leon going with this? My cousin blinked. "And you look . . . like that?" Mad Rogan nodded. "Yes." Leon's dark eyes went wide. He looked at Mad Rogan, then glanced back at himself. At fifteen, Leon weighed barely a hundred pounds. His arms and legs were like chopsticks. "There .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 585ffb6 | I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of. | philosophy | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8f772ac | I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. | terry-pratchett witches life truth inspirational tiffany-aching | Terry Pratchett |