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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 11887bb | But fates are connected in ways we don't understand. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f234f30 | He was my strength when I needed him to be, my friend when I needed someone to talk me down, my equal in a world where by law I would always be less than him, and honest to gods, he was the love of my life. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6e1b210 | Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted. | Max Brooks | ||
| 7c85525 | She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her grey eyes flickered. Despite being beat-up, sooty, and dressed like a homeless person, she looked great to Percy. So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 589e6e5 | In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:Jupiter the sky god, dressed in a silk XXXL purple toga, holding a lightning bolt. "It doesn't look like that," Percy muttered. "What?" Hazel asked. "The master bolt," Percy said. "What are you talking about?" "I-" Percy frowned. For a second, he'd thought he remembered something. Now it was go.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 45e60ab | I'll show them 'love is worthless,'" Silena Beauregard grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "I'll pulverize them!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 21f60b8 | I am Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades. I control the shadows. They do not control me. | shadows son-of-hades | Rick Riordan | |
| f5293a9 | Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 80ec2c7 | I held out the painting of the cat and the snake. "It's a cat and a snake," Thoth said. Thank you, god of wisdom. You placed it for us to find, didn't you? You're trying to give us some sort of clue." "Who, me?" Just kill him, Horus said. Shut up, I said. At least kill the guitar." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 16e0f6d | An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. | Henry Miller | ||
| 0956fc8 | I guess that's all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now. | Nicholas Evans | ||
| 9565071 | Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: . It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8390593 | Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 49af92f | Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 265e9ae | Gentle he would be, denied he would not. | time-travel | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 798edc2 | That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c28bfcc | Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable." -- | Roald Dahl | ||
| 7bf6e43 | The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 2f20e55 | If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 7ed6523 | Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 62131b6 | Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 895b20f | I seem to grow more acutely conscious of the swift passage of time as I grow older. When I was small, days and hours were long and spacious, and there was play and acres of leisure, and many children's books to read. I remember that as I was writing a poem on "Snow" when I was eight. I said aloud, "I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now while I'm still little, because when I grow up I will know how to write, b.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 8f2e9ed | Honestly? I don't want people around me for two reasons - they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, you're screwed and you spend all your time obsessing on why you didn't see it coming. Or that you did something or didn't do something to cause it. No offense, but I don't like to be hurt and I'd rather just avoid it.(Ravyn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 18f2631 | For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7f7e7d4 | What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f8d16d3 | I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. | Albert Camus | ||
| c7835aa | Just snow and sapphire and ink. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c4c7afa | How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. | Paul Bowles | ||
| c395750 | There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside." | christianity judaism scripture | Anne Lamott | |
| 16d2a70 | I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo | Amy Tan | ||
| 961da1b | Tell me somethin' you do that would shock me." She sits back on the couch. "Shock you?" "Yeah. Shock me to the core." She sits up on her knees and leans toward me. "I've thought about you, Carlos," she whispers in my ear. "At night, in bed. I think about kissing you, our tongues sliding against each other's, while your hands are buried in my hair. When I think about feeling those ripples in your naked chest I touch my--" "Here's more popco.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 0e356a2 | Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow the world. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 2011704 | O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo - | William Shakespeare | ||
| 02eae5e | Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come. | romance british-boys etienne-st-clair swoon | Stephanie Perkins | |
| c505375 | Men suck, even imaginary ones | James Patterson | ||
| 8a0dac3 | We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 11a98da | Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die. | Garth Nix | ||
| 6ec22cc | Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over | joy sadness optimism happiness life misattributed-dr-seuss crying smile smiling | josh stern | |
| bc7f410 | It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there. | Don DeLillo | ||
| c3a96ad | They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish) | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0a38a63 | There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it. | Annie Proulx | ||
| e87b33b | What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your . | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 47bde5e | Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug." | Charles Dickens | ||
| b3e1aef | You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. | love | Jean-Paul Sartre |