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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | laws personal-autonomy responsibilities rules | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 753d461 | You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does. | inspirational life | Philip Pullman | |
| 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 | ||
| 3b573ab | You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past! | Mitch Albom | ||
| 423de19 | This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it. | disbelief gabriel-garcía-márquez love love-conquers-all of-love-and-other-demons | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 9f6aed0 | No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 26889eb | Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock. | god man religion | Alice Walker | |
| ddd23d6 | In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries. | sacrifice | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 91338fd | You know what I've been thinking?" Why I hadn't crawled over the center console and into his lap yet? Because damn if I was wondering that very thing, but the car was way too small for those kind of Shenanigans." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d327adc | Daemon: Ever hear the saying you catch more lions with honey than vinegar? Katy: I think it's 'catch more bees' and not lions. Daemon: Whatever. | jennifer-l-armentrout katy-swartz origin | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| f69e7a5 | Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! | H.G. Wells | ||
| e0285b0 | Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)" | Darren Shan | ||
| 786807b | When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?" | hazel-levesque leo-valdez lol | Rick Riordan | |
| 152511a | Who are you?" Ethan Nakamura. I have to kill you." ??" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 5213fd9 | I am Hel," she agreed. "Sometimes called Hela, though most mortals dare not speak my name at all. No jokes, Magnus Chase? Who the Hel are you? What the Hel do you want? You look Hela bad. I was expecting more bravado." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c0f0961 | Besides, Reyna will do what she can to slow things down. She's still on our side. I know she is." "You trust her." Piper's voice sounded hollow, even to herself. "Look Pipes. I told you, you've got nothing to be jealous about." "She's beautiful. She's powerful. Se's so...Roman." Jason put down his hammer. He took her hand, which sent a tingle up her arm. Piper's dad had once taken her to the Aquarium of the Pacific and shown her an elec.. | jasper mark-of-athena piper-mclean rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| f674b79 | If we can't repair things with the Romans--well, the two sets of demigods have gotten along. That's why the gods kept us separate. I don't know if we could ever belong there." Percy didn't want to argue, but he couldn't let go of the hope. It felt important--not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that's what being a demigod was all about--not quite belong.. | families fitting-in percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians relationships the-heroes-of-olympus the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| b9a8ce3 | Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4330365 | We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 682b65c | There is nothing to save, now all is lost, | loss poems quotes stillness | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 4fa04c0 | The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. No.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 187a569 | Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it. | dying handle people worthless | Haruki Murakami | |
| 9a65488 | All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 53028d2 | I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3b7d03e | The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky. | writing | Haruki Murakami | |
| c5650d4 | A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?" | children-s farting friendly gas giant humor roald-dahl the-bfg | Roald Dahl | |
| c61088a | None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different. Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it had some enormous meaning--either a terrifying one which turns the whole dream into a nightmare or else a lovely meaning too lovely to put into words, which mak.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| d302876 | I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. | fantasy inspirational religion | C. S. Lewis | |
| 77a084d | Eroticize intelligence. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| bc252e1 | I am not wise, but I can always learn. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| f276e77 | Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act? | change change-the-world | Tamora Pierce | |
| 4f5c818 | I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 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 |