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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3bcf166 | You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eter.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e03176f | Aelin was no savior to rally behind, but a cataclysm to be weathered. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d5025be | I am going to destroy everything you love. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6d073a5 | Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later-- probably sooner-- I'd look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I'd be disappointed in you if I didn't see you." "Are you off to the iceberg today?" Sophie retorted." | humor | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| ef426d9 | There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. | war culture | Roger Zelazny | |
| 82468d4 | The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around all the time. Meanwhile, however, I have discovered what I would have to call a soul, a part of myself I could never have imagined until one day, seven years ago, when hell came to pay me a surprise visit. It's a precious discovery. Almost eve.. | life | Andrew Solomon | |
| 1a1bcab | The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this is a permanent situation. And then they have to transcend their experience and grow from it and put themselves out into the world of real people. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 4db2462 | But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 5ffba22 | Cadeon, can you hear me?" He didn't open his eyes. "Nothing wrong with my ears." "Of course not." She laid the cloth on his forehead. "So . . you and Tera seemed close." "Been through a lot." "Was she your girlfriend?" He gave a laugh that sounded like a grunt. "Not at all." "And you really didn't sleep with Imatra?" "Bloody hell, noooo, I didn't . . . She's a slag." "Then why did you kiss her?" Holly asked. "Directions. . . and to see." "T.. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 58f6aef | This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful. | inspirational | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 30ad932 | On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 5683baf | Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 4eed9fa | Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0a4ada9 | I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!" | Anne Frank | ||
| b2e7878 | When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again. | marriage wife | Philippa Gregory | |
| c55cbf4 | My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 4eea6f3 | If I hold her hand she says, 'Don't touch!' If I hold her foot she says 'Don't touch!' But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 394f1e0 | I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 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] | spiritual hinduism | Anonymous | |
| 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 would-i-lie-to-you gossip-girl | 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 | ||
| 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. | wealth greed | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f2100ca | Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without, and I sought thee out there. Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly among the lovely things thou hast made. Thou wast with me, but I was not with thee. These things kept me far from thee; even though they were not at all unless they were in thee. Thou didst call and cry aloud, and didst force open my deafness. Thou didst gleam.. | St. Augustine of Hippo | ||
| a994753 | 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." -- | freedom cooperation revolution organization | Terry Pratchett | |
| 06ca328 | A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 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." | freedom cooperation revolution organization | 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 |