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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a33c9c3 | It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle. | David Levithan | ||
| 642bf72 | I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense. | David Levithan | ||
| 8f4fb00 | there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| cab4897 | To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us. | life possibility | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| 6382247 | Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference." Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 3f9b183 | When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. | feelings write | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 041e0e7 | At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 774e61c | Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self respect, much less hurt his own woman. Much less ten times over the mother of his kids. A real man busts his ass to feed his family, fights for them if he has to, dies for them if he has to. And he treats his wife with respect every day of his life, treats her like a queen - the queen of the home .. | domestic-violence emberverse stirling | S.M. Stirling | |
| 394929a | It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated.. | humour odors smells stink writing | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 5dfba7c | You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. | writing writing-craft | Michael Connelly | |
| 832bec8 | It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages | Adam Smith | ||
| 40520f9 | Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. | philosophy-of-life theology | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 23d665e | People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence. | philosophy sci-fi | Philip Pullman | |
| 8d4e5c7 | Where is the bane of my existence?" "In the shower, freshening up." Damn it all to hell. "Oh God, who did Ascanio screw now?" "No, no, he's covered in blood." "Oh good." Wait a minute. "The kid is covered in blood and we're relieved. There is something wrong with us." | ascanio kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| e6f892e | Relax, Mr. Diggums. Have another nettle beer, or some spring water." The commander took two bottles from the cooler and offered one to Mulch. Mulch studied the label. "Derrier? No thanks. You know how they put the bubbles in this stuff?" Vinyaya's mouth twitched with the ghost of a smile. "I thought it was naturally carbonated." "Yeah, that's what I thought until I got a prison job at the Derrier plant. They employ every dwarf in the Dee.. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 14d89d8 | You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening mome.. | flirting humor love orion | Eoin Colfer | |
| 1fca7cc | Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 00d86b2 | The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4dc90c2 | mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. | Victor Hugo | ||
| bd1ff2b | All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8055f29 | I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 0f8526c | She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. | Markus Zusak | ||
| eb06e8e | It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 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 inspirational life | Anne Lamott | |
| 031ef55 | and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 1e40757 | But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again. | souls | Ray Bradbury | |
| 78087b2 | A grown child is a dangerous thing. | Alice Walker | ||
| 9f35528 | I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. | love poetry yearning | Sylvia Plath | |
| 84c6da9 | Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill. | skill weapon | Brian Jacques | |
| 79453b5 | It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| dcbf7d7 | W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 911812c | Avery." "Cam?" "What are you up to?" "Nothing. Everything." "Those are two opposite things." "I know. Kiss me?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b8a0e34 | Your life isn't about all you can't do. It's about what you can do. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 56126a8 | The Guards in front of the dais turned and froze. Then they scattered like roaches. Apollo moved up the aisle. "Yeah, that's what I thought." "I will find you! We're connected. We are one!" Seth was still screaming. His gaze fell to the god. He sneered. "You want to fight me now, in your true form?" "I will fight you in any form, you little punk-ass brat." Seth laughed. "You can't kill me." "But I can beat the living snot out of you." | seth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 5ba0dd1 | May I ask why you're passing notes to Aiden?" He eyed the letter like it was a bomb. "It's a love note. I'm asking him to circle 'yes' or 'no' if he likes me." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f1335ca | You both passed out," Percy said. "I don't know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were...sharing?" "Sharing," Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn't look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. She spit out some red fluff. "Sharing is good. No more blackouts. Biggest American blackout, August 14, 2003. Hazel shared. No more blackouts." Percy scratched h.. | ella hazel-levesque heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians sharing the-son-of-neptune | Rick Riordan | |
| b8bd2b0 | Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters. | Rick Riordan | ||
| dc9d93f | Nico was devastatingly alone. He'd lost his big sister Bianca. He'd pushed away all other demigods who'd tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone. | reflection reyna | Rick Riordan | |
| 3b5a286 | As you are now so once were we. | James Joyce | ||
| 00124e2 | You can't go on "seeing through" things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To "see through" all things is the same as not to see." | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 30f3dfb | And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good. | heaven hell joy loneliness | C.S. Lewis | |
| a145e36 | As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. | nanking world-war-ii | Iris Chang | |
| 4ba7d78 | He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 555b629 | One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within. | Dave Pelzer |