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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fabf4fa | You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I'd dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 25173d0 | the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 241f292 | To each his own magic. | magic | Libba Bray | |
| 6ef7bd0 | She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who'd botched things so badly. They'd sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they'd sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn't. She knew now that the world w.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 420a5c2 | Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 83def1d | Every moment in life is an act of faith | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| ef674dd | Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9bab32c | I'm like everyone else--I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3d3eb3d | Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| b78455d | You survived; I survived. We're together again. I once begged the gods to let me see you -- if only for a moment. To see you and know you'd made it. Just once; that was all I ever hoped for. | aelin-ashryver-galathynius queen-of-shadows reunion | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d0b20df | I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us ... I would find you. I don't care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always. | queen-of-shadows rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0555d62 | We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But th.. | consciousness leary reality | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| db08cbf | I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the map...nights alone in motels in remote western towns where I know no one and no one I know knows where I am, nights with strange paintings and floral spreads and cable television that furnish a reprieve from my own biography, when in Benjamin's terms, I have lost myself though I know where I am. Mo.. | journey nature wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 6d8e727 | Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't. | smoking stereotypes | David Sedaris | |
| 7a6de6b | The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you're a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. | David Sedaris | ||
| ec115b5 | Besides which, she would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| b365e75 | Charlie noted that more and more lately, he had a hard time resisting the urge to fuck with people, especially when they insisted upon behaving like idiots. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 251cd9e | Important safety tip with most of the spiritual world: if you ignore it, it has less power. This does not work with demons or other demi-beings. Other exceptions to the rule are vampires, zombies, ghouls, lycanthropes, witches...Oh, hell, ignoring only works for ghosts. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ea0d55a | Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| aa314ec | A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3e2f4c5 | Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. -And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. | Richard Bach | ||
| 9d2c2cf | But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al's smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it. | demons fiction rachel-morgan supernatural | Kim Harrison | |
| f31bdb3 | In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world. | Paul Auster | ||
| f715dd1 | Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge - none of that tells us very much. | metafiction | Paul Auster | |
| 24307c0 | I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 7ff842c | Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. | greatnesstness heroic triumph victory | John Steinbeck | |
| e32758c | After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. | trauma | Arthur Golden | |
| be3b3b8 | I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 56d1947 | I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 4f8377d | The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9bd0de6 | Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake. | Lisa See | ||
| d536a06 | Marley was dead: to begin with. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 6e2ef2d | Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 4f3c4d8 | Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 49f84ac | The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 265f921 | She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. | seduction | Raymond Chandler | |
| f67d14c | I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 13dda3b | Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. | Douglas Adams | ||
| dabb607 | Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby. Marvin droned, He paused to gather the artistic and emotional strength to .. | h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy humor marvin sci-fi | Douglas Adams | |
| cf79fa2 | Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. ! Don't talk to me about life." | marvin | Douglas Adams | |
| c0093f4 | You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say. | haste j-r-r-tolkien treebeard | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 90d69dc | Above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell. | song | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 11d7c8d | The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| bec757e | when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian. | Henri J.M. Nouwen |