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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 44384f1 | Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action. Do it or don't do it. It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself,. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet. You shame the angels who wat.. | courage writing fear | Steven Pressfield | |
| 8b39d7d | Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.' Frodo: [continue walking] You've left out one of the chief characters - Samwise the Brave. I want to hear mo.. | samwise-the-brave samwise sam-gamgee lord-of-the-rings stories | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 388ee0c | Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it. | religion love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 2e8be64 | But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 18aed3a | Shall I project a world? | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 5bd762c | Do you--do you think I want to--do you think I give a--I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6f0091a | Because, sometimes you've to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've to think about the greater good! This is war! | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2752ea0 | Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green) | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b277bb1 | My first thoughts after waking are - and always have been - of you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3529e59 | I hear they feed you in Sing Sing," Evie muttered. "Three squares a day." "Evangeline," Will said with a sigh. "Charity begins at home." "So does mental illness." | Libba Bray | ||
| 4cd0865 | I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books. | Libba Bray | ||
| 100bdaf | You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a372e1f | The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2f41b95 | The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 572d9f5 | No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds | transience | Hermann Hesse | |
| ff5df84 | Windows were shuttered as they passed, probably because of Rowan, who looked like nothing short of death incarnate. But he was surprisingly calm with the villagers they approached. He didn't raise his voice, didn't snarl, didn't threaten. He didn't smile, but for Rowan, he was downright cheerful. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b715570 | I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin." He shook the hair out of his face. "I'm not interested in court ladies," he said thickly, and kissed her." | crown-of-midnight dorian throne-of-glass dorian-havilliard sarah-j-maas celaena-sardothien | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 7dbe27c | Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak! | healing-balm neal | Tamora Pierce | |
| 7dd832c | I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. -Myles of Olau | code-of-chivalry myles-of-olau | Tamora Pierce | |
| ac2ec0f | It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: "It's just that I thought maybe you were married to me." | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 9f53ec3 | Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?" | literature | Donna Tartt | |
| 32fba02 | Darwin says people like you need to die." (Carrow)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| e59c4ee | Lothaire is very much alive." "You swear?" "Often. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Regin. I try not to in front of Bertil." She petted the bat. "I meant--will Lothaire live?" "He will." | paranormal-romance | Kresley Cole | |
| c512e10 | In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't know the meaning of virtue!" "Of course I do-it means your thong must be white." (Sabine)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 1e11278 | You two. You can do a cleaning spell." One slurred, "But Nixie, I'm really pre-hung-over." Nix's eyes went wide. "Do it, or the photos go live!" The witch shook her fist to the sky, crying, "Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!" | Kresley Cole | ||
| f594a54 | I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite? | Stephen King | ||
| 076d612 | Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one. | murder | Stephen King | |
| f9e45c5 | It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out .. | winter futility maternal nihilism mother | Betty Smith | |
| f7487f6 | A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb. The nurse had chosen the forgetting way. Yet, as she stood there, she knew that years later she would be haunted by the sorrow in the face of tha.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 70a0a22 | Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. | escape mind life inspirational | Virginia Woolf | |
| b9e7493 | When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6a28517 | When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep. | life love maturity experience | John Gardner | |
| cdc9be1 | Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 40397fd | Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 59732d1 | Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne. | misunderstanding | L.M. Montgomery | |
| ac27653 | It still took years for me to let go of learned pattern's of behavior that negated my capacity to give and receive love. One pattern that made the practice of love especially difficult was my constantly choosing to be with men who were emotionally wounded, who were not that interested in loving, even though they desired to be loved. I wanted to know love but was afraid to be intimate. By choosing men who were not interested in being loving,.. | bell hooks | ||
| 353a190 | Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f47a5f9 | To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools. | education schools | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 5c5e3ee | And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect. | stupidity tolstoy dishonesty trickery intellect pride | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 9ba1f42 | I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide. | self-reliance | Charlotte Brontë | |
| dbf3f9e | As she chattered and laughed and cast quick glances into the house and the yard, her eyes fell on a stranger, standing alone in the hall, staring at her in a cool impertinent way that brought her up sharply with a mingled feeling of feminine pleasure that she had attracted a man and an embarrassed sensation that her dress was too low in the bosom. He looked quite old, at least thirty-five. He was a tall man and powerfully built. Scarlett th.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| bbb7bcf | They'll be days like this" my momma said. When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 23016f9 | We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical.. | carnivore carnivores slaughter diet meat health | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 642d4f2 | When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now. | grief parents | Jude Watson |