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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
9f84fff | Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. | dreams re-direction re-thinking epiphany | Alice Sebold | |
1226938 | We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive. | Amy Hempel | ||
2d3cd84 | I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues. | Dr. Seuss | ||
5e211af | And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. | Dr. Seuss | ||
ef04aeb | I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. | Sylvia Plath | ||
abc9c6c | Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you'r.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
f935304 | To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not o.. | love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
ea3f4a2 | The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. | pain love inspirational | Jodi Picoult | |
cfb758a | Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. | inspirational curiosity creativity | Walt Disney Company | |
0297a9c | A map says to you. | Beryl Markham | ||
81d90f3 | Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
33160e3 | The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
6c0094e | We meet no ordinary people in our lives. | inspirational | C.S. Lewis; Inspirational Christian Library | |
0f7c694 | Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don't need the approval of others. | self-awareness inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational self-worth strong | Roy T. Bennett | |
0303900 | You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
7de25e2 | Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. "Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles." | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
6c84ebc | Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead. | J.K. Rowling | ||
7d17852 | Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. | edward-cullen | Stephenie Meyer | |
e684d5c | Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things. | william-herondale will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
5b07206 | And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles. | John Green | ||
8bd4c27 | The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to. | Jodi Picoult | ||
aa204b4 | O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. | winter summer | Albert Camus | |
17c2674 | She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable. "Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y." | young-adult | Cassandra Clare | |
674613e | If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered. Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?" Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat." That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup." | isabelle-lightwood jace-wayland mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
c2b035c | All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. | Neil Gaiman | ||
f292bb4 | For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. | hope inspirational | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
0c82639 | When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. | Jodi Picoult | ||
08edfcc | Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortali.. | hatred sadness fail excitement english language emotions disappointment | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
963fded | Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. | gandalf j-r-r-tolkien death-penalty lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
b2ad3a3 | TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. | optimism | Howard Zinn | |
582feb9 | He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
45b0531 | We are all worthy of one another. | worthiness | Edward P. Jones | |
11c7f57 | Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. | Pat Conroy | ||
89625d8 | When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don't give up. | persistence inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational keep-going never-give-up adversity challenge | Roy T. Bennett | |
73ee118 | Where there's life there's hope. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
8fd1ca8 | Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time ?" "Yes," he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him," and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him, too." " Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor." "In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch." | humor clary-fray jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
7959b3b | In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [ ]" | solitude retreat | Albert Camus | |
4dc7cf4 | A book is a dream that you hold in your hands. | dreams | Neil Gaiman | |
cffed4d | Do not go gentle into that good night | death-and-dying poetry philosophy inspirational | Dylan Thomas | |
a13ed64 | You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster! | Stephenie Meyer | ||
85e355d | Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise | Maya Angelou | ||
920e2fe | Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
76ea3f6 | Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it." | Danielle Steel | ||
a80c9f7 | Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him! | inspirational | J.K. Rowling |