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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c60cf5 | The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 5dbe90f | I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 86924a5 | What are you trying to prove?" Lucia demanded. Between strikes, he bellowed, "That you should no' have left me!" "You were going to do it to me--don't bother denying it!" When he didn't, she said, "Then why are you different?" Another volley of arrows. "What gives the right to risk yourself?" He snapped, "Because you could move on if something happened to me." | Kresley Cole | ||
| c7cf5ee | If I have to scour the entire earth, I'll hunt her down. I will no' falter. One day I will bring my female back to my home - back to my bed...She was born to be found by me. -Garreth MacRieve, King of all Lykae | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8505a05 | They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? | humanity life humanity-and-society | Stephen King | |
| 8e510d6 | Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear | love | Stephen King | |
| 0e95b59 | Words have weight. | words writing truth | Stephen King | |
| c7ea542 | Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. | fiction women on-fiction problems women-writers gender | Virginia Woolf | |
| 65b63fa | But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, 'we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory. | union | Virginia Woolf | |
| bbb7a2b | When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster. | dogs life | Dean Koontz | |
| e6c5418 | Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| de7c2ce | Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone. | Anne Frank | ||
| 6e91eca | I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope. | Judith McNaught | ||
| ed699f0 | When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies | philosophy | John Fowles | |
| 33fce86 | All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. | bell hooks | ||
| 4d2da05 | There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. | feminism education | bell hooks | |
| b123905 | Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? | struggle optimism happiness life survival | Tom Stoppard | |
| f5f8700 | A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 9d2b740 | I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| a4ff90c | He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 79aa04d | You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something. | learning | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 6a4204b | Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using. | inigo | William Goldman | |
| b410c40 | There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. | William Goldman | ||
| 7153c20 | if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they'd probably say they didn't. Yet that's not necessarily what they truly think. It's just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don't until they're allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never gets the chance. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 35560fb | And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built | poem | Charles Bukowski | |
| 9cd37d9 | Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are. | inspirational | David Mitchell | |
| 7139d0a | Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 41651f4 | We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that. | winter nature witches moonlight | Philip Pullman | |
| c933452 | The judge's massive eyebrows crept up. "Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?" "Yes, Your Honor." "Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant." | law | Ilona Andrews | |
| d737805 | It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 798614a | There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| d8439c2 | It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them. | words | Terry Pratchett | |
| eb748d7 | The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. | William Saroyan | ||
| 37a538a | The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there. | Nancy Garden | ||
| f475993 | The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. | spirituality transcendance exploration meditation infinite journey | Jules Verne | |
| c933b9e | Every time you look up at the stars, it's like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you're the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and yo.. | stars eleven staring-at-stars lost-at-sea comic sixteen teenager graphic-novel | Bryan Lee O'Malley | |
| 068b8da | One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 58c2114 | Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy." | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 2fad48c | What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Oooh! He summoned you to the west coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you taking care of that little problem? I should give you a bunny!" - Algaliarept" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 70695ff | I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling .. | poe poetry happiness horror | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| d75d189 | Laura looked up at him with dead blue eyes. I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be alive. I want to feel my heart pumping in my chest again. I want to feel blood moving through me -- hot, and salty, and real. It's weird, you don't think you can feel it, the blood, but believe me, when it stops flowing, you'll know." She rubbed her eyes, smudging her face with red from the mess on her hands. Look, it's.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 05c2752 | It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. | simile paraphrased | Neil Gaiman | |
| d6acd96 | And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust | T.S. Eliot | ||
| a8eba6b | I called an insurance company to get a quote. They gave me one of Oscar Wilde's best. | Jarod Kintz |