1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
489
490
491
492
493
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 526323a | Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves. | Albert Camus | ||
| b300612 | I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate. | Albert Camus | ||
| 1d4677d | Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 50f8158 | My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. | breaking-dawn twilight-saga | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 63c3305 | I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong. | ian-o-shea the-host new-moon wanderer eclipse edward-cullen twilight soul | Stephenie Meyer | |
| dd802db | To Earthward" Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The flow of--was it musk From hidden grapevine springs Downhill at dusk? I had the swirl and ache From sprays of honeysuckle That when they're gathered shake Dew on the knuckle. I craved strong sweets, but those Seemed strong when I was young; The petal of the rose It was that stung. Now no joy .. | Robert Frost | ||
| e1b97a4 | We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this. | death life inspirational | Anne Lamott | |
| b30f486 | The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. | shakespeare scene-2 play hamlet theater | William Shakespeare | |
| 6d44313 | For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| bfd810d | We are kissing like crazy. Like our lives depend on it. His tongue slips inside my mouth, gentle but demanding, and it's nothing like I've ever experienced, and I suddenly understand why people describe kissing as melting because every square inch of my body dissolves into his. My fingers grip his hair, pulling him closer. My veins throb and my heart explodes. I have never wanted anyone like this before. Ever. He pushes me backward and we'r.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 65ee4c8 | I want to be able to see stuff," Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt." -- | revenge iggy maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 3c95b5b | It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do not to give a " | James Patterson | ||
| e8bf56a | Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica." | James Patterson | ||
| 4ba7d78 | He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 389d755 | The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 975cc55 | It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 6adf439 | Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched"." | Ayn Rand | ||
| fbe0edd | Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 32c8012 | No good deed goes unpunished. | Dan Brown | ||
| 38de18d | And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I d.. | loneliness feminism writing gender-roles | Jennifer Donnelly | |
| 6399320 | Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. | learning teaching | Frank Herbert | |
| 0ec9c4a | Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. | Truman Capote | ||
| d02b4d9 | The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights. | Edith Wharton | ||
| b49cf82 | How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?" | Douglas Adams | ||
| 452a961 | Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c8740b5 | That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c76a0a5 | If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. | companionship | Jodi Picoult | |
| 555b629 | One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within. | Dave Pelzer | ||
| 171026c | Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take...If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that l.. | marriage love | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| fde627d | The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show h.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 73a0fc5 | Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame. | enthusiasm excitement hidden | Patrick Süskind | |
| a40f68f | What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ba66127 | Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." -Plato" | song love philosiphy plato | Jessica Clare | |
| ee56a7e | Play to your strengths." "I haven't got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself. "Excuse me," growled Moody, "you've got strengths if I say you've got them. Think now. What are you best at?" | strengths | J.K. Rowling | |
| cf5fdd6 | I know how to use a fellytone now. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0311190 | The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7110f02 | You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses. . . I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stop.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 00fc3ff | Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to continue fighting here on earth." "I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven." "True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more." "He had all he could ask for, didn't he?" Ann asks. "Exactly." Miss Moore states. "He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone els.. | Libba Bray | ||
| c35de68 | We buy balloons, we let them go. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 14e9fc2 | And it was not darkness, but light--light, bright and pure as the sun on snow, that erupted from Asterin. Light, as Asterin made the Yielding. As the Thirteen, their broken bodies scattered around the tower in a near-circle, made the Yielding as well. Light. They all burned with it. Radiated it. Light that flowed from their souls, their fierce hearts as they gave themselves over to that power. Became incandescent with it. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 868afb8 | Aelin Galathynius looked at Manon Blackbeak over their crossed swords and let out a low, vicious snarl. | manon-blackbeak queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ad01a26 | Rhys had just said, | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cd55adb | Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 3a4b4b9 | Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it" George Cooper" | Tamora Pierce |