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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4634d21 | Personally, I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams. It's a period of life when young people appear to have a great deal of freedom, but are in many ways actually opressed. Just when they find themselves powerfully attracted to members of opposite sex, they have to really crack the books. To escape from this depressing situation, they often find themselves wishing they could live in a world .. | Hayao Miyazaki | ||
| 8f75c88 | Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination. | Thomas Harris | ||
| b042240 | I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a glass of water on a hot day when you're dying of thirst, or when someone's nice to you for no reason, or ...' Mam's pancakes with Toblerone sauce; Dad dashing up from the bar just to tell me, 'Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite'; or Jacko and Sharon singing 'For She's A Squishy Marshmallow' instead of 'For She's A Jolly Good Fellow' every .. | heaven | David Mitchell | |
| 13ece28 | Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| f4f09a7 | To get a better idea try this: focus on these words, and whatever you do don't let your eyes wander past the perimeter of this page. Now imagine just beyond your peripheral vision, maybe behind you, maybe to the side of you, maybe even in front of you, but right where you can't see it, something is quietly closing in on you, so quiet in fact that you can only hear it as silence. Find those pockets without sound. That's where it is. Right at.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 966a333 | Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. | greed wealth | G.K. Chesterton | |
| e5a6bbc | Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 08bae8d | She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9c5c41f | When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable | past | Martin Amis | |
| da2b634 | Private Parts The first love of my life never saw me naked - there was always a parent coming home in half an hour - always a little brother in the next room. Always too much body and not enough time for me to show it. Instead, I gave him my shoulder, my elbow, the bend of my knee - I lent him my corners, my edges, the parts of me I could afford to offer - the parts I had long since given up trying to hide. He never asked for more. He gave .. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 05296f1 | It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out. | Markus Zusak | ||
| e16302b | Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 50a5114 | A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 2b45a67 | Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table. | lessons life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 268babc | Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. [Trans. Purohit Swami] | hinduism spiritual | Anonymous | |
| f2eb64f | Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin. | mother | Mitch Albom | |
| 0cd85cc | The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November. | Donald Miller | ||
| 05ed815 | There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0174a94 | Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. | parenting | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 5948a23 | Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. | ethics | Matthew Scully | |
| 113c66f | The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness. | teachers | Jeannette Walls | |
| 8e89e67 | In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 289b2d7 | Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 85be5d2 | If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be, we ask only this: that you remember us, not as enemies, but as a tragic sisters, changed into foul shape by fate or God or evolution. If we had kissed, it would have been the miracle to make us human in each other's eyes. Instead we killed each other. But still we welcome you now as guestfriends. Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwel.. | evolution hive-queen | Orson Scott Card | |
| e662874 | To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen.... And yet th.. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| ac544cf | You okay with all of this?" I whispered to Daemon. He shrugged. "Not like I can stop her." I knew he could if he wanted, which meant he didn't have a problem with it. "Cookie?" he offered, holding a cookie full of chocolate chips. Upset tummy or not, there was no way I could refuse that. "Sure." His lips tipped up one side and he leaned toward me, his mouth inches from mine. "Come and get it." Come and get...? Daemon placed half the cookie.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 23a0dab | Alex, you have to be in there. I know you. My heart would not be beating if you were truly gone. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 70bb2a6 | Out of all the paranormal books I'd read and reviewed, no one glowed like this. Some glittered in the light. Others had wings. No one was a freaking giant sun. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d3f1753 | True, you're the weakest of us all, but you're still one of the five, and there is power in collecting the complete set." He paused, then grinned. "The complete Set! That's funny! Now let's consume your energy and entomb your soul, shall we?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8cb4002 | I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done. | humor romance sadie | Rick Riordan | |
| 3d91d6a | Anybody have any money?" Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian." Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and--score! A piece of celery." He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next." | food frank-zhang humor money percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| 9614d90 | You must forgive my Hunters if they do not welcome you," Artemis said. "It is very rare that we would have boys in this camp. Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp..." She looked at Zoe. "Which one was it?" That boy in Colorado," Zoe said. "You turned him into a jackalope." Ah, yes." Artemis nodded, satisfied. "I enjoy making jackalopes." | percy-jackson zoe-nightshade | Rick Riordan | |
| c1b77b5 | As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6c97247 | Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 0571b1b | This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all. The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now.. | Alice Munro | ||
| 65f2bf4 | lnsn ynsj Hyth `l~ Gyr `lm mnh wfqan lqwnyn ljml Ht~ fy lHZt ly's l'kthr qtm@ | Milan Kundera | ||
| f12563e | I laughed. "You're too young to be so ... pessimistic," I said, using the English word. "Pessi-what?" "Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things." "Pessimistic ... pessimistic ..." She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. "I'm only sixteen," she said, "and I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6981b2e | Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b521617 | Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e2b628c | The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 277b97b | When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'--ye'll ken it was because I didna have time." | jammf | Diana Gabaldon | |
| f67db1c | The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be the centre - wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race. Some people think the fall of man had something to do with sex, but that is a mistake...what Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they 'could be like Gods' - could set up on their own as if they had .. | human-nature | C.S. Lewis | |
| c0b34f9 | A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all--and more amusing. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 67c2bb2 | The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes.. | friendship love truth | C.S. Lewis |