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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f5e0031 | You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| fd1c959 | He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| f315873 | It comes, I suppose," I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, "of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don't always stay where you put them." | Naomi Novik | ||
| dbc0272 | Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. ...this book...is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water o.. | writing-from-the-heart writers-on-writing writing-philosophy writing-advice | Stephen King | |
| ea2e375 | I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness. | Stephen King | ||
| 9b53be2 | The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. | procrastination | Stephen King | |
| 4871914 | But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 36d4ea3 | A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 63f6e66 | She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5b49296 | I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ae3b8ee | Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f65a0ca | There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conq.. | philosophy exploitation | Daniel Quinn | |
| 36c2ea7 | Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. | Willa Cather | ||
| 2ca90e6 | Did you eat my Twinkies?" She gulped. Keeping her eyes glued to the whip, she said, "Exactly what Twinkies are we talking about?" "The Twinkies in the cupboard over the sink. The only Twinkies in the trailer." His fingers convulsed around the coils of leather. Oh, Lord, she thought. Flayed to death for a Twinkle. "Well?" "It, uh -- it won't happen again, I promise you. But they didn't have any special marking on them, so there was no way I .. | twinkies | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | |
| c2f0aa2 | I've come home in love with loneliness | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 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.. | humor love orion flirting | 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 | ||
| cb9adaf | I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it. | David Levithan | ||
| 73cddf9 | Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah | youth | David Levithan | |
| 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 .. | emberverse stirling domestic-violence | 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 writing odors stink smells | 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 | |
| af1900a | Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 3812a09 | you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into your eyes Nothing,i said,except the air of spring smelling of never and forever. ....and through the lattice which moved as if a hand is touched by a hand(which moved as though fingers touch a girl's breast, lightly) Do you believe in always,the wind said to the rain | E.E. Cummings | ||
| b2f8855 | The thing is, I mean, there's times when you look at the universe and you think, "What about me?" and you can just hear the universe replying, "Well, what about you?" " | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b7c582a | It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America. | humor | David Sedaris |