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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd37856 | The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories - not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 19fe837 | You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. | Saul Bellow | ||
| c49b48d | It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are. | god god-s-love inspirational love | Stormie Omartian | |
| 45b8963 | You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 9a78828 | I love to kill fish,' Sayle went on. 'But when I saw this specimen of , I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.' 'It's ninety-nine per cent water. It has no brain, no guts and no anus.' Alex had dredged up the facts from somewhere and spoken them before he knew what he was doing. | Anthony Horowitz | ||
| 82af0dd | Since when do you care about rules?" "I'm a changed person." "When did you change? Just now? 'Cuz I heard about your smack down in the cafeteria yesterday." | pure seth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| e6daa19 | I wouldn't give up being a Sentinel for the world. Or being the Apollyon. I rock." "Wow. You're so humble." | humble seth-apollyon | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 6740d6f | So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout." | Rick Riordan | ||
| aad3384 | Nothing can slow them down," Leo mused. "I wonder..." "What?" Jason asked. Leo looked at the dwarfs. "I'll make you a deal." Akmon's eyes lit up. "Thirty percent?" "We'll leave you all the treasure," Leo said, "except the stuff that belongs to us, and the astrolabe, and this book, which we'll take back to the dude in Venice." "But he'll destroy us!" Passolos wailed. "We won't say where we got it," Leo promised. "And we won't kill you... | dwarfs jason-grace kerkopes leo-valdez passalos riordan the-house-of-hades | Rick Riordan | |
| 422571e | Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all. | thalia-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| 606b59b | Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6339905 | And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face! | rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 5da24b5 | This belonged to my sister-in-law," Prometheus explained. "Pandora." A lump formed in my throat. "As in Pandora's box?" Prometheus shook his head. "I don't know how this business got started. It was never a box. It was a , a storage jar. I suppose Pandora's doesn't have the same ring to it." | percy-jackson prometheus | Rick Riordan | |
| ed5e4ea | He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside -- why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening -- I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he sa.. | england nature | Dodie Smith | |
| 0f3a44f | Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| a551dd7 | A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You Off My Mind', but then realised that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straight away, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white m.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 27eb522 | What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"- Rob" | Nick Hornby | ||
| e6d8dc6 | When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together." | norwegian-wood | Haruki Murakami | |
| 81b8f27 | The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be co.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 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 | |
| 9de7c50 | We're built of contradictions, all of us. It's those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I'll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off. | philosophy strength | Mark Lawrence | |
| a0e0224 | You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| a813f9f | The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire.. | holy-spirit love | T.S. Eliot | |
| 3cb9bb4 | Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 3760015 | Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| cd92d97 | Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8b7760f | Where am I?" Magnus croaked. "Nazca." "Oh, so we went on a little trip." "You broke into a man's house," Catarina said. "You stole a carpet and enchanted it to fly. Then you sped off into the night air. We pursued you on foot." "Ah," said Magnus. "You were shouting some things." "What things?" "I prefer not to repeat them," Catarina said. "I also prefer not to remember the time we spent in the desert. It is a mammoth desert, Magnus. Ordinar.. | intoxicated magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 376df09 | Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 43d477b | Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don't know what I'll do with you. | funny isabelle | Cassandra Clare | |
| 78eab73 | Because you told me you don't have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that's very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8c0d5fe | Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king! | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0095357 | Izzy, are you--" he began. His eyes flew wide, and he backed up fast enough to smack his head into the wall behind him. "What is he doing here?" Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. "You don't knock now?" "It--It's my bedroom!" Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position. Simon rolled quickly off Isabelle, who sat up, brushin.. | humor isabelle-lightwood simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3510a45 | And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?" "It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." | humor jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| dd1c762 | Zhi yin. Jem had told her once that it meant understanding music, and also a bond that went deeper than friendship. Jem played, and he played the years of Will's life as he had seen them. He played two little boys in the training room, one showing the other how to throw knives, and he played the ritual of parabatai: the fire and the vows and burning runes. He played two young men running through the streets of London in the dark, stopping t.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 479b873 | You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| dd3edcf | I have never understood the concept of infatuation. It has always been my understanding that being 'infatuated' with someone means you think you are in love, but you're actually not; infatuation is (supposedly) just a foolish, fleeting feeling. But if being 'in love' is an abstract notion, and it's not tangible, and there is no way to physically prove it to anyone else... well, how is being in love any different than having an infatuation? .. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| dbade60 | One thing you could say about Butch was that his wardrobe was full of options. "Never thought I'd be glad that you're a clothes whore." "I believe the term is sharp dresser." | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| eb777c7 | Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward --ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter --maybe less than a lot, but always more than none. | John Green | ||
| f8399b8 | I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. | John Green | ||
| f1c3562 | Like all sick children," he answered dispassionately, "you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it." | John Green | ||
| 72edaad | I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. | augustus-waters beautiful beauty hazel hazel-grace hazel-grace-lancaster john-green tfios the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 4e4a868 | Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 70834f7 | People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away. | F. Scott Fitzgerald |