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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9d31978 | Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4b71ac7 | She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| a95ebd1 | What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. | George Eliot | ||
| 5071095 | I felt for the tormented whirlwinds | passion reason lustful italian-medieval-poetry sinners inferno | Dante Alighieri | |
| b298281 | To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| cf60595 | I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. ( ) | faith everlasting-life sydney-carton tale-of-two-cities ever-after charles-dickens resurrection paradise | Anonymous | |
| 99abec4 | do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? | Robert Greene | ||
| e1e88f9 | She laughed, and the desert sang. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 5f152c2 | Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing." | Harper Lee | ||
| d1f7d52 | It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully. | David Levithan | ||
| c619f11 | In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days. Then I'd put on my clothes and I'd walk outside, and the sunlight was brilliant, and the sounds were great. I felt powerful, like a recharged battery. But you know the first bring-down? The first human fac.. | sleep | Charles Bukowski | |
| 3f7731e | We live in a primitive time--don't we, Will?--neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books. | Thomas Harris | ||
| d2c3d18 | I can pick up the city feeds on my antenna. It said they were going to change you all. Turn you into something less dangerous. Are you still...?" She gazed at him. "What do you think, David?" He peered into her eyes for a long moment, then sighed and shook his head. "You just look like Tally to me." She looked down, her vision blurring. What's the matter?" Nothing, David." She shook her head. "You just took on five million years of evolutio.. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8e11a37 | We're the unmended, the untended, cold soldiers of the shoe. We're the neglected, the never resurrected, agonies of the few. We're the once kissed, unmissed and always refused. Because we're the unfinished and feared and we're never pursued. And just that easily, on my behalf, I come around. Because I'm burning. The beast of War feeds only on the meats of War. And now I'm for carnage. Here's how my anguish frees. Destroy everyone of course... | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 16e589c | Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 3240e3d | It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 195240a | If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4e8a391 | The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. | maturity | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 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 | ||
| 409499b | My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 4279d5c | Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store? " | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 134f763 | Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like a barrister and twists them. I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud, I say to myself silently and write it here. | Graham Greene | ||
| b159b51 | What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? | irony ignorance | Neil Gaiman | |
| 03492bd | You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 4f221ae | I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a258e0a | Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?" "I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c6bcaff | How people?" Alec asked. "Roughly." Magnus shook his head. "I can't count, and it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how I feel about you." "More than a hundred?" Alec asked. Magnus looked blank. " hundred?" "I can't believe we're having this conversation now," Magnus said." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 6779366 | She'd been impressed by his looks at first--those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes--but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now. She didn't like boys who looked as if they never got mad about anything. In Isabelle's world, rage equaled passion equaled a good time. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b4f1261 | The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long. | clockwork-angel clockwork-prince cassandra-clare | Cassandra Clare | |
| 31b34ca | It wasn't sexy," he said. "It was a little sexy," Simon said. He felt much better, having fed, and couldn't help but poke at Alec a bit. "It wasn't," said Alec. "I had some feelings," said Simon." "Do feel free to agonize about it on your own time." | tmi city-of-heavenly-fire simon-lewis cassandra-clare | Cassandra Clare | |
| e4227c6 | They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 407e66f | He's not in a very good mood," said Luke, pausing in front of a closed door. "I shut him up in Freaky Pete's office after he nearly killed half my pack with his bare hands. He wouldn't talk to me, so"--Luke shrugged--"I thought of you." He looked from Clary's baffled face to Simon's. "What?" "I can't believe he came here," Clary said. "I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon. "I know a lot of people," said Luke. "Not.. | simon-lewis luke | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3801805 | Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 748c353 | When people die, our dreams of what they could be die with them. Even if ours is the hand that ends them. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 1f6c253 | if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 6c2bf3e | He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 64666c1 | One day you will learn that love does not always betray you. | learning love | Mary Balogh | |
| 04312db | You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right? | Meg Cabot | ||
| 4b3b095 | I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 3d9c66e | No matter what you wear... to me, you will always have diamonds on the soles of your shoes. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 0eb146f | You are perfect for a female." "Not where I come from." "Then they're using the wrong standard." | payne jr-ward manny | J.R. Ward |