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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a48281 | Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD | Rick Warren | ||
| 2b95d3d | Trifles make the sum of life. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 5044e7d | Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 7c7071a | Please, sir, I want some more. | oliver-twist | Charles Dickens | |
| 47c9f90 | The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| fd7eb66 | Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment. | wisdom | Dan Millman | |
| 83d7956 | Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away. | Umberto Eco | ||
| e1bf62f | You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control. | pretend life-lesson | Jodi Picoult | |
| e573535 | Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have." | near-sighted glasses eyes | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| f3a60fd | Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. | growing stories | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| a2e0bc0 | Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8488c82 | Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll's head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| f2896f7 | By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. | E. M. Forster | ||
| a5d0c7a | Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| abb45c5 | And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 13f72c9 | I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 505db86 | The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. | truth born born-here choke palahniuk immigrant immigration | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| b36c544 | Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1f3fbb5 | Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt. | fear love inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 35c858c | You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of. | philosophy teddy meditation | J.D. Salinger | |
| 3e4dc49 | My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 7354a42 | Why," he asked. "Why did you save her?" She dragged a hand through her hair. [...] "Because that golden-haired witch, Asterin ...," Aelin said. "She screamed Manon's name the way I screamed yours." -- | manon-blackbeak rowan-whitethorn celaena-sardothien | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 761a7f6 | One second, he was in my mouth, my tongue flicking over the broad head of him; the next, his hands were on my waist and I flipped onto my front. He nudged my legs apart with his knees, spreading me as he gripped my hips, tugging them up, up before he sheathed himself deep in me with a single stroke. I moaned into the pillow at every glorious inch of him, rising onto my forearms as my fingers grappled into the sheets. | sex erotic-paranormal-romance fantasy-erotica graphic-sexualscenes misleading-marketing erotic-fiction erotic-content erotic-fantasy fellatio mature-content new-adult-fiction erotic-scenes fake-marketing new-adult-fantasy new-adult-paranormal-romance pornographic new-adult-romance erotica-romance erotica-bdsm eroticism nudity rough-sex new-adult erotic erotic-romance erotica | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2bafaf3 | I love you, always. Time is nothing. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| bd5b93f | What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties. | youth hope | Mary Karr | |
| 1dd5e40 | He was staring at my lips, and before I could think better of it, I'd wetted them. "That's it, bebe," he said in a coaxing rasp. "Ma bonne fille." My good girl. He wrapped one of his arms behind my back, cupping my chin with his free hand. "Evangeline, I'm goan to kiss you until your toes curl, until we're breathing for each other." That was the promise. . . ." | Kresley Cole | ||
| ad5b2f6 | The past is obdurate. | Stephen King | ||
| 93dd5d0 | For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b32eaa2 | What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside a.. | humanity education love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| eaa6350 | We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are. | inspirational | Terry Brooks | |
| 4fe7a42 | I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 9e70519 | What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful? | Kate Atkinson | ||
| a6a1976 | You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. | rachel-lynde | L.M. Montgomery | |
| b72a509 | Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you during the whole course of your dream; you even remember that you acted extremely cleverly and logically for that whole long, long time when you were surrounded by murderers, when they were being clever with you, concealed their intentions, treated.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 003bff0 | Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediate.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a570f79 | He made me love him without looking at me. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 3a8d4ce | We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 6a7456f | Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be. | Daphne Du Maurier | ||
| aa7e77c | A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all--it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 446dd6a | Love is the only prayer I know. | prayer | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| d0e7fd2 | She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the or.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 64945dd | Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 8c4cdff | But the wild things cried, "Oh please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so!" | wild-things goodbye sad | Maurice Sendak | |
| f8119fd | As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. | satisfaction | George Bernard Shaw |