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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 46e7d83 | If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. | african cooperation inspirational proverbs unity wisdom | Askhari Johnson Hodari | |
| c851e76 | Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar | difference inspirational spanish wisdom | Gloria Anzaldúa | |
| 4838d9f | You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead. | death inspirational life-lessons | Santosh Kalwar | |
| 519e9fe | Everything ends, and Everything matters | inspirational meaning-of-life | Ron Currie Jr. | |
| 27b8814 | They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 2f54918 | Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild... | karr liars mary | Mary Karr | |
| d176d22 | How old are you?" "Physiologically, I'm twenty-five. Chronologically, I'm...not." | Kresley Cole | ||
| f2966b0 | When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights. | Stephen King | ||
| fbbd87c | There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky. | Betty Smith | ||
| c2a6150 | To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 7381654 | Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? | truth | Virginia Woolf | |
| 02dfbc9 | Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. | Richard Wright | ||
| 8f4fe87 | A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 812755f | The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 1ae8cd3 | For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?" | Norton Juster | ||
| 00bcb1a | All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. | destiny elite freedom tyranny | Thomas Pynchon | |
| fb20913 | I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. | lgbt oscar-wilde | E.M. Forster | |
| ea0aa46 | And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment. | plato symposium | Plato | |
| a2e35c4 | That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!" | inspirational | J.K. Rowling | |
| a7b712a | Scary with you is better than scary without you | Tamora Pierce | ||
| d2f07ce | To all the ships at sea, and all the ports of call. To my family and to all friends and strangers. This is a message, and a prayer. The message is that my travels taught me a great truth. I already had what everyone is searching for and few ever find. The one person in the world who I was born to love forever. A person, like me, of the outer banks and the blue Atlantic mystery. A person rich in simple treasures. Self-made. Self-taught. A ha.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 104ac29 | Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 212a638 | Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?" -- | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f023449 | Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| be815e5 | What you don't understand you can make mean anything. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d2c79db | We're all of us haunted and haunting. | haunting | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| c618538 | That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 92b919d | Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, 'No, I'm not interested.' I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: 'the book is so mu.. | film films-based-on-novels novels readers | Paulo Coelho | |
| cbd4470 | I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won't survive. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 14090be | Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 286c3fe | Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 22c4a3e | Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, life is hell." Nothing led up to or away from it. Alone on the page, and in the sickly stillness of the room, the words appeared to have the stature of an uncontestable, even classic indictment. X stared at the page for several minutes, trying, against heavy odds, not to be taken in. Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, h.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3038c71 | A gift. A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread. | kindness | Sarah J. Maas | |
| a32e2df | You're remarkably judgmental." "What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgments?" "What's the point in having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgments of your mind?" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b8c3e26 | They think written words are even more powerful,' whispered the toad. 'They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c53b9db | Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 04ccb2b | I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 472750f | Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher. | myrnin | Rachel Caine | |
| 27637eb | Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you. | falling-in-love need | Nancy Horan | |
| a51c3a3 | Asher was a vampire. How much more dangerous could he be with a gun? But I couldn't do it. "Let me test my understanding. Is Asher going to ride in the car with us to the meeting?" I must to give you directions," Asher said. Then lean against the Jeep." He frowned at me in an amused, condescending sort of way. Excuse me?" I don't care if you're the second coming of the Antichrist, you can't sit behind me in my own car until I know you're n.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| a435b09 | I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7f81639 | Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 751c068 | It is the hour of pearl--the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. | monterey steinbeck | John Steinbeck | |
| 4173741 | Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. --WINSTON CHURCHILL | Dan Brown |