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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8c4e654 | Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business. | John Green | ||
| 4f45683 | I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said." | John Green | ||
| ca0cc83 | I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| eaf3bb2 | Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment. | stupid stupidity | Lynsay Sands | |
| 185616b | Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 5aeff10 | You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic...someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath. | love romance want | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 8a84c35 | If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive. | John Irving | ||
| 014381e | I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 96149cc | The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 401a5c4 | A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock. | inspirational love | Julia Quinn | |
| f68cc7d | There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies. | Alan Moore | ||
| c0394b5 | When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell. | love | Julian Barnes | |
| a7777ad | A crossbow?" Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans," the man said." -- | weaponry | Brandon Mull | |
| ebdd417 | What a woman you are," he murmured, and she heard the emotion in it, the way the Irish thickened just a bit in his voice. And saw it in those vivid eyes when he drew back. "That you would think of this. That you would do this." He shook his head, kissed her. Like the breath, long and quiet. "I can't thank you enough. There isn't enough thanks. I can't say what this means to me, even to you. I don't have the words for it." He took her hands,.. | in-death-series love roarke romance | J.D. Robb | |
| a2a7704 | I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. | humor life | Jim Butcher | |
| be8b19b | and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| c9ad006 | Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. | inspirational life wisdom | Evanescence | |
| 4c66aa9 | How can you trust me, after what your own brother did to you? | damianos-of-akielos inspirational laurent-of-vere trustworthy | C.S. Pacat | |
| 69a1eba | This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility. | blessings inspirational life new-day possibilities | Steve Maraboli | |
| f4cd4f3 | When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. | inspirational someone-like-you true | Sarah Dessen | |
| fbf1196 | No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone. | inspirational music | Josh Groban | |
| 2be6530 | A truth that no one knows is still the truth. | inspirational truth | Sharon Shinn | |
| 9d20cf3 | How would your life be different if...You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self. | action change destiny empowerment history inspirational life motivational opportunity | Steve Maraboli | |
| 380ee11 | Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what. So you're afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway! | courage daring fear fearless inspirational resolve richelle richelle-goodrich success | Richelle E. Goodrich | |
| e368c19 | That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices! | humor inspirational | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2373fdb | You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. | strangeness | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| e4279a4 | He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 19fb591 | I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| b7016ad | Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2f715b4 | She gazed up at him. "Just don't forget our new motto, Leo. 'We can always murder them later, but we can't bring them back.'" "My wise and clever Bride." | iad lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| 04a014a | If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you. | loyalty war | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 8467e70 | Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...tha.. | music | Stephen King | |
| 46106cf | Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire. | Stephen King | ||
| 63494aa | There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 34f3d7e | In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself. | love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| eccd51e | They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces. | hate society | Richard Wright | |
| aacff4e | Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of manipulation in our society. It's how politicians peddle policy and how Madison Avenue sells us things that we don't need. Think about it. Fear that we're going to be attacked, fear that there are communists lurking around every corner, fear that some little Caribbean country that doesn't believe in our way of life poses a threat to us. Fear t.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 514329b | A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil. | politics socialism | Terry Eagleton | |
| 1043298 | Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 90368d2 | Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear," was her fancy. "Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again." | frances-hodgson-burnett thoughts | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| f3226eb | Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' -- sorry about that -- but there's a thing that could be the sun... hang on... that means 'great happiness'... so you're going to suffer but be very happy..." "You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me," said Ron, and they both had to stifle their laughs as Professor Trelawney gazed in their direction... | happy humor ron-weasley suffering | J.K. Rowling | |
| d2e07cc | Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 89f0375 | What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 30ceacd | Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. | Nicholas Sparks |