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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c5f4510 | William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions." | cooperation freedom organization revolution | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2dab14c | The worst thing you can do is nothing. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f153237 | First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They're rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft. | second-thought third-thought witchcraft | Terry Pratchett | |
| a7bfdec | Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life. | science | Terry Pratchett | |
| a89acbc | Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 275c1b2 | I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to lady crack pipe or good sir dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied? | David Sedaris | ||
| 10d9211 | I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all. | funny miss-manners polyamory sex | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| e363669 | We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn... | José Saramago | ||
| 4901a37 | The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 176b289 | All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 1944e23 | Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. Humble people are so focused on serving others, they don't think of themselves. | Rick Warren | ||
| 996ca58 | She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive. It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean, and left nothing but t.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| fe35f42 | I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. . . They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there h.. | romance-novels | Ayn Rand | |
| f423469 | People and relationships never stop being a work in progress | Nora Roberts | ||
| d258ee7 | Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love . | John Gray | ||
| 7d98c76 | Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| a48e140 | I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out... | Charles Dickens | ||
| 848eb64 | She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 4801b7d | You cannot pass! | lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| f8daecd | the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort. " | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3d3be41 | I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words. | sisters | Jodi Picoult | |
| 54f250e | I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 418f069 | Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. | liberty | Kahlil Gibran | |
| aaa6f44 | You are so not an asshole. (Tory) Trust me, I can be. But I have a height requirement before I break ass on someone. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 440e51b | Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus] | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e401156 | We're going forward, but nothing changes. | Albert Camus | ||
| 666b2d2 | I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. | Albert Camus | ||
| 7cba900 | Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but.. | Albert Camus | ||
| e3ba038 | There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts. | Albert Camus | ||
| de650ae | He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way you look right now...You're much more than beautiful. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e388e37 | I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| b20409d | Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 360db24 | hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)... | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 764ea1e | Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 139f22b | It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 6fcd3b6 | Love is merely a madness. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 2d913ef | How'd you get this number?" "Well, you see, there's this book. It has white pages. And it has all these phone numbers listed inside it. It's also online." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1d59b09 | Iggy: Now what? Who you gonna call? A quiet voice in the hallway outside: Ghostbusters! (Captain Perry and John groan) John: That phrase is ruined forever. | James Patterson | ||
| 678833d | How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling. | Emily Brontë | ||
| bcd01fb | So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass." | chuck-bass gossip-girl would-i-lie-to-you | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 4e3acc1 | I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something? Call me an old-fashioned Naomi bitch, but I'm holding out for true love. Even if it's an unattainable fantasy | David Levithan | ||
| 503d884 | me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. | David Levithan | ||
| 2f66404 | When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. | suicide writing | Charles Bukowski | |
| 73a0eb9 | eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go. | Charles Bukowski |