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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f3730b1 | Buy a pup and your money will bu | inspirational | Rudyard Kipling | |
| b1634f3 | Only one life, 'twill soon be past | inspirational | C.T. Studd | |
| 7658a33 | I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. | future life inspirational doors | Elizabeth Taylor | |
| 3e8c58d | Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren) | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| a3cc223 | She had her addictions and one of them was reading. | reading | Jeannette Walls | |
| 6aea6db | Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong? | Michael Crichton | ||
| 24cf227 | People who claim to know jackrabbits will tell you they are primarily motivated by Fear, Stupidity, and Craziness. But I have spent enough time in jack rabbit country to know that most of them lead pretty dull lives; they are bored with their daily routines: eat, fuck, sleep, hop around a bush now and then....No wonder some of them drift over the line into cheap thrills once in a while; there has to be a powerful adrenalin rush in crouching.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 802b03c | No. I do believe in them. I just think they're absentee landlords. Right now, they're probably hanging out somewhere in Las Vegas, screwing showgirls and cheating at poker. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fe28221 | My brother is moody." No shit" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cab0c13 | His hands slid around my head, pulling me back to his mouth. There was a cracking sound in the house. A fissure of electricity shot through the room. Something smoked. I didn't care. | obsidian | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 448b3e3 | Dee, I think the reason why he stares at me is because he's planning on ways to kill me and hide my body. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fb18056 | If not for the horses, Piper would've died. | piper-mclean percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena horses | Rick Riordan | |
| bb9aae9 | I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 25f743a | That is correct," Zeus said. "The blood of Olympus was spilled. She is fully conscious." "Oh, come on!" Percy complained. "I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That's not fair!" | gaia nosebleed percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 5c97fe9 | The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 3620fe1 | You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately" | Henry Miller | ||
| 2a2bc26 | If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. | war adversary battle strategy | Robert Jordan | |
| ca24fe4 | Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. | fun jesus work god inspirational blessing rest christian leisure | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| a6fbe6e | The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| ea31570 | Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 9088373 | And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired and bored and the party's gone on too long and I want to go home. I feel flat and there doesn't seem to be anything to look forward to, so I'd rather call it a day. | Nick Hornby | ||
| a8d2fc9 | Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it." | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 0bf4b72 | A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. | narnia genesis | C.S. Lewis | |
| 9ed2b0e | We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 4772f3f | To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. | happiness clover lightheartedness revery prairie | Emily Dickinson | |
| af49e17 | It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. | the-bella-jar plath fallen sylvia | Sylvia Plath | |
| eaa43d6 | Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We're in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 80c780d | You're human. No one cares if you sleep with a whore. (Artemis) (Tory did something she'd never in her life done before. She slapped another person.) You ever insult Acheron again and so help me, I'll do to you what you allowed your brother to do to him. I'll cut your tongue out for it. Acheron is the man I love and no one, ever, takes issue with him without having issues with me. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7bd209c | At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I'd thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she'd shown. Soon, though, I'd figured out the animals' true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| f0b1335 | Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain. | twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| f6c4881 | Your hold on me is permanent and unbreakable. Never doubt that | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 066d432 | A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence. | humor insightful | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 17bade1 | But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| eb7c6ea | If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| af7f623 | Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| dbacfc0 | There's a point when you have to stop fightin' the whole world. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4b90317 | How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath? | restlessness | William Shakespeare | |
| 6836274 | When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 1300c36 | Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jab.. | poetry nonsense lewis-carroll | Lewis Carroll | |
| 388bfb8 | It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don't think that's a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it. | James Patterson | ||
| 6a5b858 | The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. | teen | Charles de Lint | |
| a338560 | and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 50d0487 | It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn. | peace | Tom Robbins | |
| 8786bc0 | At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he .. | slavery freedom rights | Ayn Rand |