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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a049d3f | At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. | surrender | Maya Angelou | |
| 62253bb | This was like no library I had ever seen because, well, there were no books. Actually, I take that back. There was one book, but it was the lobby of the building, encased in a heavy glass box like a museum exhibit. I figured this was a book that was here to remind people of the past and the way things used to be. As I walked over to it, I wondered what would be one book chosen to take this place of honor. Was it a dictionary? A Bible? Maybe.. | D.J. MacHale | ||
| dafea55 | To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid. | Robert Harris | ||
| bb8a661 | A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a0ccc12 | You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8af9a96 | Men didn't respect beauty...they used it. | men respect | Nora Roberts | |
| fa4afb8 | we are unique individuals with unique experiences | John Gray | ||
| 6227dba | The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. | travel | Anthony Bourdain | |
| a48cb6a | Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| e517c69 | It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| b350435 | Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5c62ac3 | Handsome is as handsome does | handsomeness manners | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5cb9d63 | Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold...The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its v.. | magic | Tolkien J R R | |
| 47e5e40 | If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 01eaa6a | maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liiked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of it.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5434846 | Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete. | symposium plato | Plato | |
| 8343572 | Fifty?" Harry gasped. "Fifty points each," said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily. "Professor -- please --" "You can't --" "Don't tell me what I can and can't do, Potter. I've never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students." | points mcgonagall teachers students | J.K. Rowling | |
| 67de9dc | George," said Fred, "I think we've outgrown full-time education." "Yeah, I've been feeling that way myself," said George lightly." | weasley twins | J.K. Rowling | |
| 155be75 | They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.' 'Shut up,' snapped Harry. The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club." -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2c553cf | Little girls. They could melt the toughest hearts. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 85a4525 | the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4abb5b1 | Some things were beyond understanding. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 396d9f8 | What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? | Lois Lowry | ||
| 28b7418 | She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 4a34276 | I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7b19ea7 | This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 1e6bd29 | 'Hyn qd tjd nfsk wHydan tmm tt'ml mnZr lGrwb ljmyl wtfkr.. hdh ljml l qym@ lh l'n 'Hd l yshrkny yh. fy 'wqt ktlk yjb 'n ts'l: km mr@ kn mTlwb mnk 'n tHb whrbt? km mr@ khft 'n tqtrb mn nsn m ltqwl lh bthq@ wTmy'nn 'nk tHbh? | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e75cf8b | Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1cbdff5 | She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e5c8df6 | And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not. | sex sex-appeal | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| c61fac6 | How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8f0c613 | You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he . . . . | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6fc07ff | Rhys shuddered, and I watched his cock twitch. "Play later," he ground out. Indeed. His mouth found mine, the kiss open and deep, a clash of tongues and teeth. He lay me down on the pillows, and I locked my legs around his back, careful of the wings. Though I stopped caring as he nudged at my entrance. And paused. "Play later," I snarled into his mouth. Rhys laughed and slid in. And in. And in." | sex erotic-fiction new-adult-paranormal erotic-fantasies erotic-fantasy new-adult-fiction fake-marketing new-adult-fantasy new-adult-lit new-adult-romance erotica-romance new-adult erotic-romance erotica sexuality | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 4053db8 | Rhys gave no warning as he gripped my arm, snarling softly, and tore off my glove. His touch was like a brand, and I flinched, yielding a step, but he held firm until he'd gotten both gloves off. " I heard you begging someone, anyone, to rescue you, to get you out. I heard you say no." "I didn't say anything." He turned my bare hand over, his hold tightening as he examined the eye he'd tattooed. He tapped the pupil. Once. Twice. " I hea.. | sarah-j-maas rhysand feyre new-adult-romance new-adult | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6b2d1b3 | When she awoke every morning, she repeated the same words: I will not be afraid. | throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8e61de7 | Death had been her curse and her gift and her friend for these long, long years. She was happy to greet it again under the golden morning sun. | koa throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas tog | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0272c21 | There were two men in this city responsible for destroying her life and the people she'd loved. She would not leave Rifthold until she'd buried them both. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ea33a28 | Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks... Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks... | live-life | Tite Kubo | |
| 3d9e9ab | Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets. | shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 68537db | He's like six hundred years younger than you are. I refuse to be the moral compass of our cell! Most weekends I have an intoxispell bong attached to my mouth like a respirator. I love scatological humor, and I list 'pranks involving nuclear waste' and 'making demons eat things' as my hobbies. | dark-fey natalya dreams-of-a-dark-warrior lore regin-the-radiant valkyrie immortals-after-dark kresley-cole berserker paranormal-romance | Kresley Cole | |
| da7f03e | Nix and Lothaire conversing) "Have you no mate, female?" he'd asked, intrigued with her, though she was his natural enemy. "I was betrothed to Loki for a time. Which did not proceed smoothly for obvious reasons. So for now I am an unrepentant manizer." At Lothaire's blank look, she'd said, "That will be amusing in the twenty-first century." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 021646d | He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again. | thirst stephen-king horror hell | Stephen King | |
| 99501fc | I prefer men to cauliflowers | Virginia Woolf | ||
| aa0cdd6 | All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others. | solitude silence seclusion | Virginia Woolf |