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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4158d05 | I desired you before, but I never loved you until this life. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 83b77ea | Happiness is the highest form of wisdom. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| e3e5bd7 | It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. | Stephen King | ||
| e8f6669 | Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. | Stephen King | ||
| 88c5e36 | Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| d9f8578 | There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up. | love romance unrequited-love youth | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| f9927b1 | In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. | inspirational | Anne Frank | |
| 41d3f4d | People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. | James Baldwin | ||
| 3e92225 | She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own. | John Green | ||
| 17bc301 | If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl. | john-green let-it-snow | John Green | |
| fbdd8b6 | It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 5e9d8e4 | I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet | food france | Gordon Korman | |
| 86dc7d9 | For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. | fear-of-death plato | Plato | |
| 2b5c963 | A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 038b9ad | Harry, we saw Uranus up close!" said Ron, still giggling feebly. "Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus -- ha ha ha --" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f1f20e8 | I hope there's pudding! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 494a9f9 | A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen. But there is only ever one thing which happened at a particular time and a particular place. And there are an infinite number of things which didn't happen at that time and that place. And if I think about something which didn't happen I start thinking about all the other things which didn't happen. For example, this morning for breakfast I had Ready Brek and some hot raspberry m.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 9fd361f | Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ec02562 | That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8c4bd1b | Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more... | Libba Bray | ||
| 6c2358c | You can't blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?" Sam's grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack. "You can't blame a girl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?" | Libba Bray | ||
| da777ff | It's all circling around the same problem of personal liberties," Walter said. "People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 36aa682 | music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 849b7a4 | Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could. | hatred | Paulo Coelho | |
| 108d81e | I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure | adventure insistence inspirational quote the-alchemist treasure | Paulo Coelho | |
| 19e3f23 | I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| bac816e | It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny... It's a force that .. | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8c38c50 | This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 0183ab1 | No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6524a10 | A princess who was to live for a Thousand years. Longer. That had been her gift. It was now her curse. | koa sjm throne-of-glass tog | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 9859b20 | Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0e91348 | No matter what happens," she said quietly, "I want to thank you." Chaol tilted his head to the side. "For what?" Her eyes stung, but she blamed it on the fierce wind and blinked away the dampness. "For making my freedom mean something." He didn't say anything; he just took the fingers of her right hand and held them in his, his thumb brushing the ring she wore." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 516dc69 | For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom. | jane-austen page-100 walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 3ac01ff | Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind. | words | Jack Kerouac | |
| 4093620 | This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 168bbe3 | I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| d9c59e7 | Deep down, I don't believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us--every man, woman, and child--and with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable of...the feat....You must learn to stop being yourself. That's where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you fe.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 16b5183 | He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 685ad11 | More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self | Napoleon Hill | ||
| 7e61225 | Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things! | Rick Warren | ||
| 3c5098f | Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it. | James Frey | ||
| d470a87 | A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| e5e0e33 | life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom. | little-women louisa-may-alcott love | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 002657a | Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways. | ugliness | Neal Stephenson |