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786e340 The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. life the-world Rudyard Kipling
1066ac9 I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Oscar Wilde
ddc08e4 Sometimes you don't have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you Cassandra Clare
0986bef I couldn't keep a fish alive," she said. "I kill plants just by looking at them." "I suspect I would have the same problem," Mark said, eyeing the fish. "It is too bad - I was going to name it Magnus, because it has sparkly scales." At that, Cristina giggled. Magnus Bane was the High Warlock of Brooklyn, and he had a penchant for glitter. "I suppose I had better let him go free," Mark said. Before anyone could say anything, he made his way .. lord-of-shadows Cassandra Clare
64f4ed3 Isabelle snorted. "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you , Simon." "You noticed." said Simon. "I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec. "Especially my father." tmi-series malec gay Cassandra Clare
a37e4a5 Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride." humor sass william-herondale will Cassandra Clare
4cd9c78 Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him. Cassandra Clare
23c25f0 It's Magnus Bane." He grinned at Alec mockingly. "Rhymes with 'overcareful pain in the ass'." Cassandra Clare
cf7f317 Tessa exploded "I am not asking you to maul me in the Whispering Gallery! By the Angel, Will, would you stop being so polite?!" He looked at her in amazement. "But wouldn't you rather-" "I would not rather. I don't want you to be polite! I want you to be Will! I don't want you to indicate points of architectural interest to me as if you were a Baedecker guide! I want you to say dreadfully mad, funny things, and make up songs and be-" The Wi.. humor love p-522 tessa-grey umbrellas william-herondale jane-eyre Cassandra Clare
d3ea8dc Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid. Robert Fulghum
15f56ad Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters. life inspirational Ernest Hemingway
9df493b Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present. Marcel Proust
8d551a1 We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't. Malcolm Gladwell
fecb189 You smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. John Green
57058d6 People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember. memory John Green
eeb04d7 She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy. F. Scott Fitzgerald
41e8f18 It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. F. Scott Fitzgerald
0c93b18 Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work. Marianne Williamson
d117589 I've told you before, I love like a madman," he said. "Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I'm absolutely intolerable." married madman Lisa Kleypas
1b429cb Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. beauty W. Somerset Maugham
a5af16f Soft hearts make the universe worth living in. universe heart love girl cute Veronica Roth
73e5330 it is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person. Robin S. Sharma
9039376 There was never anybody before you," she said. "I just wanted to say that. And when I did what I do, and it opened a crack in me like it did last night, there was nobody there to hold on to me. I didn't want anyone to hold on to me. Until you. And I got through and I got by, and it was okay. But I think, maybe, if I'd just kept getting through and getting by, I'd have come to a point where I couldn't do it anymore. And if I couldn't do it a.. J.D. Robb
2e9fb94 The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet. funny uniform Maria V. Snyder
a719e44 My dear, Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering Ram Running all through the city, Shouting so madly inside and out About the ten thousand things That do not matter? شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez
1cc91f5 Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything. Jonathan Tropper
1d4dee6 One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important. influence leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation inspiring motivational life inspirational leader leaders Roy T. Bennett
544a368 I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations, and that our peace, commerce, and friendship, may be sought and cultivated by all. It is our business to manufacture for ourselves whatever we can, to keep our markets open for what we can spare or want; and the less we have to do with t.. inspirational power Thomas Jefferson
4abf4aa Everytime I plant a seed,he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. inspirational Bob Marley
6bcaa8d Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. inspirational Victor Hugo
2352476 A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. humour inspirational W.C. Fields
d9c0c2a Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. people compassion motivational life inspirational anger resentment grudge Steve Maraboli
488847a Strength is Life, Weakness is Death inspirational Swami Vivekananda
c355140 Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible love inspirational Thomas A. Kempis
9f5f37d He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. ancient-china ancient-chinese conquers philosophical philosophy inspirational chinese body training ancient fighting warrior self-realization self-improvement proverb Confucius
260fb5a Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for ages, has superstitiously believed in what he calls a God does not prove at all that his theory has been right. There have been many gods - all makeshifts, born of inability to fathom the deep fun.. immortality makeshift satisfaction theory wonder reason science truth inspirational superstitious falsehood miracles study theology naturalism gods destruction soul Thomas A. Edison
f001170 The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world. inspirational Dalai Lama XIV
39fa6f2 Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence." Joseph Heller
0c9123c You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Michael Crichton
303b56b I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me go.. Hunter S. Thompson
af8fb4c I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations, and that our peace, commerce, and friendship, may be sought and cultivated by all. It is our business to manufacture for ourselves whatever we can, to keep our markets open for what we can spare or want; and the less we have to do with t.. power Thomas Jefferson
7bd9600 the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, Nora Ephron
6f312ae You grew up too fast, baby." Didn't always feel that way, especially this morning when I couldn't find my other flip-flop and I'd been, like, two seconds from kicking a fit." mother-and-daughter Jennifer L. Armentrout
d8c0532 Do you... feel anything around me?" "Other than what I felt this morning when I saw how good you looked in those jeans?" "Daemon." I sighed, trying to disregard the girl in my that screamed, "I'm being serious." onyx jennifer-l-armentrout lux katy-and-daemon katy-swartz Jennifer L. Armentrout