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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | inspirational love support supporters | 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. | authenticity be seem | 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 | |
| 384ca80 | She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 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.. | description lyrical | Richard Adams | |
| 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. | love marriage | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| b6468a4 | Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 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 | ||
| 052b6a1 | Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 98524f7 | No matter how convoluted my life got, one thing remained consistent- my hair looked like a baby opossum had taken refuge in it, invited some friends over, and thrown a party. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 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 |