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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| de450d3 | This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. | philosophical romance spiritual inspirational | Victor Hugo | |
| 71c8d0f | I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 7b02631 | It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 4897376 | Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality. | finality goodbye | Daphne du Maurier | |
| ec00387 | Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 25e04f8 | In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. | Voltaire | ||
| e7687f5 | That made me happy. That was my Anchor. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 79c1dd9 | Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed. | Anonymous | ||
| 52230b9 | I'm erased. I'm gone. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl.... And... I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I'm not outside my world anymore, and I'm not really inside it either. The thing is, there's no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 1c593b7 | Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone. | dreams dissapointment | Jane Green | |
| 97385b8 | In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle. "Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to- the fact that you say that it's over, or.. | David Levithan | ||
| 43ccb8c | Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens, spike topped walls and treble-bolted doors. Gulls alight on whitewashed gables, creaking pagodas and dung-ripe stables; circle over towers and cavernous bells and over hidden squares where urns of urine sit by covered wells, watched by mule-drivers, mules and wolf-snouted dogs, ignored by h.. | David Mitchell | ||
| c8f29a8 | And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 9262972 | To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern - and to t.. | love | Erich Fromm | |
| 2eed698 | Quick, Derek, it's your chance to shine," Ascanio said. Derek gave him a withering look. "Desandra is a mother, Robert is married, Kate's affianced, and I'm an old soul. You're the closest thing to a virgin we've got. Get on with growing some flowing locks." | humor derek kate-daniels banter | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4c43fa7 | Who snitched?" "We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim walking down the hallway snickering to himself." | magic-slays ilona-andrews kate-daniels kate jim | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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 | ||
| 6efa3a5 | Actually--and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable--some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan--'a land without.. | irony religion zionism turkey holy-land israeli-palestinian-conflict land europe britain colonialism israel jews palestine | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d19787e | In all the world, you are what I love the most. | tessa-gray jem-carstairs | Cassandra Clare | |
| 11b2e56 | I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbors need to do to be on the side of the good. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9f94843 | She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?" | humor | Neil Gaiman | |
| 134aa4a | I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 312a794 | The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. | world humor misunderstandings problems troubles grammar | Michel de Montaigne | |
| c085aaa | Any place you love is the world to you. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 5ab8860 | I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver." | clary-fray jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4b27780 | You could sketch me," said Emma. She flung herself down onto her seat, leaning her head on her hand. " 'Draw me like one of your French girls.' " Julian grinned. "I hate that movie," he said. "You know I do." Emma sat up indignantly. "The first time we watched Titanic, you cried." "I had seasonal allergies," Jules said." | emma-carstairs julian-blackthorn lord-of-shadows | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9c5faf5 | Will set his fork down and began cheerfully, in the manner of Edward Lear's | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ed9a745 | Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind. | loneliness friends city-of-fallen-angels cassandra-clare vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| 737012e | I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' | Cassandra Clare | ||
| cadb9f5 | I don't have a reason to lie to you. Not now.' Jace's gaze remained steady. 'And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous.' 'Good,' Simon said. 'If you want to know why it's because you smell like blood.' 'It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury.' Jace raised his left hand. It was a glove of white bandages, stained across the knucles where blood had seeped through. | jace-wayland simon-lewis vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| 85cfc6d | I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born." | Christopher Pike | ||
| 53a6bd1 | I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| be64842 | I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice." | humor | John Green | |
| 54bf997 | Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really. | John Green | ||
| d527352 | You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. | John Green | ||
| f092bfe | The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves. | shakespeare the-fault-in-our-stars william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare |