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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fd143a1 | It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless. | the-giver | Lois Lowry | |
| dfc6496 | Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder? | god lucifer rebel-angels | Libba Bray | |
| 543f05d | Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate. | Libba Bray | ||
| 64c9310 | I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them. | forgotten hollow loneliness | Nicole Krauss | |
| 00a305b | Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f26f82c | The happier people can be, the unhappier they are. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ab1f7be | Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 9ad3abe | I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing everytime you crossed a road. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 7eef910 | My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b98e460 | And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 01f34a0 | Her salary as King's Champion was considerable, and Celaena spent every last copper of it. Shoes, hats, tunics, dresses, jewelry, weapons, baubles for her hair, and books. Books and books and books. So many books that Philippa had to bring up another bookcase for her room. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a02e70a | She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. And then she would remember how it had felt to be loved, when the world held nothing but possibility. No matter what they did to her, they could never take that away. She would not break. And someday ... someday, even it took her until her last breath, she'd find out who had done this to her. To Sam. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0b119b0 | the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses | E.E. Cummings | ||
| a8d02d0 | I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 29d001d | Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering." "Are you saying that you -" "Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box." | doughnuts ghost-town morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| b5c13ca | I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. | Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| 1f7e237 | It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. | Norman Maclean | ||
| f685a41 | Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck. | supernatural vampire witch | Kim Harrison | |
| b082b8f | Life is a perpetual yesterday for us. | Alice Sebold | ||
| f490e23 | A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 450af3e | Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure. | humor | Nora Roberts | |
| f3e81d7 | Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. | Dan Brown | ||
| 2b953ab | The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know. | learning man the-lost-symbol | dan brown | |
| 046cad0 | The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. | self-mastery | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 7e1bb50 | Someone else always has to carry on the story. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 51010df | What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0eaeb2f | How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a4814f6 | I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused. | conversation smiling | Jodi Picoult | |
| 602321e | There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now. | dramatic kelley-armstrong the-awakening | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 72250ad | He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went. "Bully" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| d464f1b | I'm really glad Edward didn't kill you. Everything's so much more fun with you around." -- Emmett Cullen" | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 426dfa7 | It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are .. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9a557a9 | Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world! | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 948750b | There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto. | tavern | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 2c31ff4 | Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 782f90d | You know that because you asked me out, you're the one who has to pick the place, right?" Throat. Dry. Dry throat. All of the dryness in my throat. "Whatever you suggest." He grins. "I'll say yes. You'll definitely get a yes. If that helps." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 0122a72 | Closed. Plenty of time to see it later, remember?" He leads me into the courtyard, and I take the opportunity to admire his backside. Callipygian. There something better than Notre-Dame." | romance | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 90a7388 | Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand? | humor maxride ratchet star | James Patterson | |
| e960b5b | Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is pathetic." | James Patterson | ||
| f40db5e | You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid? | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| c89982d | It is not the strongest of the species that survives, | Charles Darwin | ||
| 540d47d | out of the arms... out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on the cross by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories, and is much kinder than the last, much much kinder, and the sex is just as good or better. it isn't pleasant to be put on the cross and left there, it is much more pleasant to forget a love which didn't work as all love finally doesn't work... it is much more pleasant to mak.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 14da37f | girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you. | bukowski death dull funny girls hell irony life love misogyny poem poetry rejection sexuality women | Charles Bukowski | |
| e007a15 | Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension. | Bill Watterson |