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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e1e7e85 | No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 51d9841 | I catch you without your again, I'm turning you in." Qhuinn cursed. "Yeah, and then I'll get fired. Which means V'll Donald trump my ass with a dagger. You're welcome." | john-matthew lover-mine qhuinn zsadist | j.r. ward | |
| 8914288 | Jane,' she said, climbing down from the chair. 'Remember last year when I built that model wind tower for you and you wrote those poems for me?' And you said you'd never switch homework assignments with me again.' For good reason. My teacher had a hard time believing I wrote When I finally convinced her that I had, she asked me if I needed to talk to the school counselor. | Jeanne Birdsall | ||
| 8792d4f | Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a ro.. | beautiful choices death disease dogs dying eulogy fire-hydrant hurt legacy love making-a-difference scars survival | John Green | |
| 103dc87 | There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward. | John Green | ||
| f8b9670 | I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 2128243 | Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 87452f8 | The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be | inspiration potential | Brian Tracy | |
| b380f52 | Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin--is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease. These qualities are about an intensification of female power, which explains why they are being recast as a diminution of power. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is .. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| f7932ec | whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his. | romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| d478903 | I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 21039a5 | She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else... | colin-bridgerton love penelope-bridgerton romancing-mr-bridgerton | Julia Quinn | |
| 142a6b8 | Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent To blow up the King and Parli'ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England's overthrow; By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God sav.. | gunpowder king november treason | Alan Moore | |
| 83e8e8f | A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned? | life | Alan Moore | |
| 73f2d8c | The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life." | Julian Barnes | ||
| d4ed014 | If quick, I survive. | survival | Sun Tzu | |
| 7f4699e | Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 5e51dd2 | I hate patience. Slows everything down. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 20fe69f | I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon) | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 84e9980 | God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can't trace his hand, trust his heart. | christian inspirational | Max Lucado (Grace for the Moment) | |
| 92d6b11 | It may not feel too classy, begging just to ea | dr-horrible-sing-along-blog heroism humour individuality inspirational musical-song-lyrics | Joss Whedon | |
| c6b1a3b | You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them a.. | inspirational | Lucy Christopher | |
| c19a3b6 | The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. | balance inspirational | Gordon B. Hinckley | |
| 218627d | Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible. | choice choices core-values inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 3b4e447 | Natalya asked, "How'd you escape all the vampires out for your head?" In a monotone voice, Lothaire stated, "I'm good." | Kresley Cole | ||
| a1d9ee7 | Lothaire said, "I have a much better plan." "Why help him?" Thad asked pointedly. "When you don't help anybody else?" Lothaire exhaled ruefully. "Incurable romantic." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 15b9509 | The turtle couldn't help us. | Stephen King | ||
| d30d340 | It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead. | war | Tim O'Brien | |
| 44c41da | I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday. | oh-romance | Judith McNaught | |
| c5cdbf7 | The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. | questions | John Fowles | |
| 9efb06d | It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted. | David Weber | ||
| 643fd5b | He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 86a0bd3 | Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns." "Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds. "And are you tempted to join him?" "No," said Snape, his black eyes on Fleur's and Roger's retreating figures. "I am not such a coward." "No," agreed Dumbledore. You are a braver man by far than Igot Karkaroff. You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon..." He walked away, leaving Snape loo.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b0dbcb0 | No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7e99974 | Ah, yes. Harry Potter. Our new -- . | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1742572 | That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger," said Snape coolly. "Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all." | severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 01c7351 | What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4b947bc | Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they always do with husbands and wives." "That's stupid." "Why's it stupid?" "Because we're not married." "Should we hold hands?" "We can't." "But why?" "Because, people will know." "Know what?" "About us." "So what if they know?" "It's better when it's a secret." "Why?" "So no one can take it from us.")" | Nicole Krauss | ||
| a35f1e9 | The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 6e02d3c | But if I don't think about love, I will be nothing. | love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 4463f73 | lsfyn@ amn@un `l~ lshTy , lknWh lyst mn 'jl dhlk Suni`t | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fd89d76 | A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; A time to lose; A time to ke.. | ecclesiastes | Paulo Coelho | |
| fe440b5 | We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happiness of the others consisted of linking their opinions, ideals, and duties, their life and happiness, ever more closely with those of the herd. They, too, strove; they, too showed signs of stren.. | hermann-hesse humanity | Hermann Hesse | |
| c84b493 | Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. | Ursula K. LeGuin |