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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c736085 | Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! | funny | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 053972d | Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn't have any panties on, but she had good manners. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6788f88 | Just because someone isn't willing or able to love us, it doesn't mean that we are unlovable. | Brené Brown | ||
| 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 | ||
| fa2e003 | We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8708727 | Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally... | louisa-may-alcott little-women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 39d753e | I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now." | romance love little-women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 04671a8 | Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Eowyn! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 043280c | Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges. | Herman Melville | ||
| 4334e12 | Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 99f33e0 | I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4a096e8 | And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. | inspirational | Jodi Picoult | |
| 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. | freedom destiny elite tyranny | Thomas Pynchon | |
| fb20913 | I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. | oscar-wilde lgbt | 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. | symposium plato | 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.. | films-based-on-novels novels film 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 | ||
| d4b8b9e | Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman." | wales welsh | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| e992c43 | Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 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 |