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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0da3376 | Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we--I mean all human beings--are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 6e89ea2 | Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and m.. | life stories | Jeanette Winterson | |
| bc40b36 | The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That's what I'll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4432bdd | I don't know how they do it. I don't know how anybody does it, waking up every morning and eating and moving from the bus to the assembly line, where the teacherbots inject us with Subject A and Subject B, and passing every test they give us. Our parents provide the list of ingredients and remind us to make healthy choices: one sport, two clubs, one artistic goal, community service, no grades below a B, because really, nobody's average, not.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 0c01701 | Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 4e4aaff | When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 85bd57d | Artemis simple-toon | myles | Eoin Colfer | |
| 1670347 | There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4e602b4 | And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars. A million suns. Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home. But all of them are out of reach. [p.218] | Beth Revis | ||
| ff73b01 | I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 3fe4bb0 | I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you." | William Goldman | ||
| b0e45b1 | She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing." | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 4c5d538 | Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends. | inspirational days everyday | David Levithan | |
| 77c6514 | Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 2f3cf8d | we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| b328fc5 | So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| c787e39 | What? You'd dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?" That's when you need a drink the most." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| e0a7287 | mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1fd9ca5 | His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 16ebf20 | Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 438171f | Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up. | peeps | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 69da965 | The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward. | Colum McCann | ||
| 7810d9c | The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... | stupidity work | Adam Smith | |
| bfcdbbd | Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities. | personal-autonomy responsibilities laws rules | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 753d461 | You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does. | life inspirational | Philip Pullman | |
| 4f5c818 | I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 57e4dd3 | I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em." | occult gods | Terry Pratchett | |
| f29bbd4 | Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9ca257d | The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1ad88e3 | I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, | self-satisfaction self-esteem | Walt Whitman | |
| d8a8205 | Myrnin: Have we been introduced? Frank: Probably not. Why, you asking me out, sweetheart? Myrnin: You're not my type, darling. | Rachel Caine | ||
| f0c452a | Now play , make-believe dead girl | myrlin eve-rosser claire-danvers morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 64d217f | What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie." -- | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 6fd8278 | The road must eventually lead to the whole world. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 9cb2691 | He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 508c33a | He was a writer and words were his weapons. | words writer | Christopher Moore | |
| 2de87db | You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." | humans | Christopher Moore | |
| cd9643d | All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story t.. | J.M. Barrie | ||
| 10b5fd4 | lstu mryDan, kl m fy l'mr 'n kl shy yt`bny wyDjrny, hdhh lrtb@ lml`wn@, ltkrr, ltshbh. | José Saramago | ||
| d9803e8 | Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell. | Kim Harrison | ||
| bb31574 | Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes. | Elizabeth Bishop | ||
| 52f9e20 | He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough. | love desire | Annette Curtis Klause | |
| e04211e | I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask. | trust danica-shardae hawksong | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | |
| 5191d86 | Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. | Henri-Frederic Amiel |