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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df699cf | Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that." "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder." | writing books sam-gamgee frodo endings happy-endings lotr | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| eecf49e | Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 5f00e2c | Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. | E.M. Forster | ||
| e701036 | Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do? | inspirational dumbledore | J.K. Rowling | |
| cc946e3 | I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| eaeb1b1 | I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas. | gonzo | Libba Bray | |
| cb6a99c | Skinny guys fight till they're burger. | men life | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 1eb8985 | At this rate, we'll never get to the future. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e43025d | Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| fd827c2 | I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| e4317a5 | The night is just a part of the day | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1c4dd2b | You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ac1634f | Rowan's head was still angled as he asked, "Your mothers were cousins, Prince, but who sired you?" Aedion lounged in his chair. "Does it matter?" "Do you know?" Rowan pressed. Aedion shrugged. "She never told me--or anyone." "I'm guessing you have some idea?" Aelin asked. Rowan said, "He doesn't look familiar to you?" "He looks like me." "Yes, but--" He sighed. "You met his father. A few weeks ago. Gavriel" | celeana-sardothien rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2ef8479 | I did not mind stepping out of the shadows, did not mind even being in the shadows to begin with, so long as he was with m | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 95ae3e9 | So I said, "He is lucky to have all of you." "No," she said softly--more gently than I'd ever heard. " are lucky to have him, Feyre." I turned from the door. "I have known many High Lord," Amren continued, studying her paper. "Cruel ones, cunning ones, weak ones, powerful ones. But never one that dreamed. Not as he does." "Dreams of what?" I breathed. "Of peace. Of freedom. Of a world united, a world thriving, Of something better--for all .. | pg427 rhysand feyre | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d2f8160 | we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth | Tite Kubo | ||
| c399b79 | Those swords are mine! Touch them and I'll use 'em to slice off your nut sack! For a coin purse! | Kresley Cole | ||
| faef5a9 | Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead. | Stephen King | ||
| df7e3d7 | I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| fe19f9f | I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet... | Judith McNaught | ||
| 2681bd2 | People who talk less frequently notice more. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 907be44 | It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me. | love the-collector john-fowles despair obsession | John Fowles | |
| 05e3438 | I've never had anyone's approval, so I've learned to live without it. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 51fd073 | I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. | life health soul | Tom Stoppard | |
| 6730a41 | the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| b2aa4e1 | Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do. | Markus Zusak | ||
| cce1ed4 | The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . . | cloud liesel the-book-thief max sun weather | Markus Zusak | |
| 3777cd0 | Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever. | thinking | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| f2e91ed | He who has let go of hatred who treats all beings with kindness and compassion, who is always serene, unmoved by pain or pleasure, free of the "I" and "mine," self-controlled, firm and patient, his whole mind focused on me --- that is the man I love best." | stephen-mitchell | anonymous | |
| 13580dc | has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a deplorable lack of understanding concerning the man who first proposed and first wrote those impressive words, 'the United States of America.' But it is hardly strange. 's teachings have been debarred from schools everywhere and his views of life misrepresented .. | influence declaration-of-independence george-washington washington jefferson paine thomas-jefferson thomas-paine franklin | Thomas Edison | |
| 06ae62a | My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments; For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you. Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He .. | kindness trust god truth peace | Anonymous | |
| 4515c79 | You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. | sorrow | William Goldman | |
| e83f2a2 | There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible. | David Levithan | ||
| 54a4169 | Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| b3ab529 | Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 87343af | The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 615d509 | Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself. | Adam Smith | ||
| 70fb089 | Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it! | humor kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 813bcb1 | Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4d53c83 | Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant- assuming that every creature th.. | pets | Terry Pratchett | |
| ad9a50c | Bite me | Rachel Caine | ||
| 07d1cda | Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps." | funny humor ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine oliver vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 95f7224 | Claire was just coming down the stairs, humming and thinking about how nice it was to have things getting back to normal, and how she'd tell Shane about the January thing tonight, when Myrnin sent a message through the portal. Well, more of a rock with a note tied to it, which rolled across the floor and scared Eve into a scream before the portal snapped shut. Eve kicked the rock resentfully with her thick black boots and glared at it, then.. | eve-rosser myrnin claire-danvers | Rachel Caine | |
| 06a37dd | There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same. | Susanna Kaysen |