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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 95f3f30 | After a while you'll think no thought the others do not think. You'll know no word the others can't say. And you'll do things because the others do them. You'll feel the danger in any difference whatever-a danger to the crowd of like-thinking, like-acting men...Once in a while there is a man who won't do what is demanded of him, and do you know what happens? The whole machine devotes itself coldly to the destruction of his difference. They'.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 24abc88 | Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung | inspirational time | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 8228778 | Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. | addicts immunity shame | John Grisham | |
| b1ccbfa | Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 45ffeb2 | He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken. | love | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 242c0ad | He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 73af881 | There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c80f5e8 | people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 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.. | lewis-carroll nonsense poetry | 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 | |
| 2e4f4c4 | No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| f559871 | You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. | injuries psyche ptsd sould wounds | Michael Connelly | |
| 05d4af3 | She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear. | Colum McCann | ||
| 45b5e3f | Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate. | hate love | James M. Cain | |
| 79c5195 | Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 84e1c73 | Go home, kiss your wives, hug your children and put your affairs in order, because tomorrow I will burn your neighborhood to the ground. We will kill you, your families, your neighbors, your pets, and anyone who will stand in our path. An attack on my family will not go unpunished. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4027eb0 | That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| ce25de2 | To prolong doubt was to prolong hope. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| a25597c | Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.) | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 10afa4a | It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 23b793d | So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 189bb60 | It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4b17544 | I could see no reason for being sad. It's just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 7faf08d | I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 0868e4b | More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be a.. | Nicholas D. Kristof | ||
| e2c9f59 | If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets." -- | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | clover happiness lightheartedness prairie revery | Emily Dickinson |