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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cb66951 | In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 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 | time inspirational | 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. | immunity addicts 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 | ||
| af1eac9 | Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| f5d8224 | He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| c8fad10 | We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test. | Isabel Allende | ||
| aee72c6 | I take my hat off to you -- or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders. | humor spiders | J.K. Rowling | |
| b6ba0cf | That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. . That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8dd79ce | There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 085c051 | NO!" The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound." | harry-potter voldemort j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| 52d573a | It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 499d128 | I know you miss me terribly. I miss you, too. But we still have each other, for I am - and always have been - part of you. You carry me in your heart, just as I carried you in mine, and nothing can ever change that. I love you, my darling, and you love me. Hold on to that feeling. Hold on to us. And little by little, you will find a way to heal. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4dcf5c6 | Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5ed2ac4 | He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8a53cdf | In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. | truth solution | Zadie Smith | |
| 12e0acc | Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones. | libba-bray horror | Libba Bray | |
| f56e7b3 | I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes. | fate sign divine | Paulo Coelho | |
| 141a74d | Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. | love inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 250ac78 | I'm going to call in old debts and promises. To raise an army of assassins and thieves and exiles and commoners. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e5a2441 | Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 3eeca42 | Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten. | luck | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0afb0c3 | And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears." Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically. "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale." -- | aziraphale bike crowley | Terry Pratchett | |
| 456525d | The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 7dfb9a8 | But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow. | Naomi Novik | ||
| dcc3bf3 | Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 29d39f3 | She scrambled to her feet. She knew her sisters were eyeing her strangely, knew that what she was feeling was undisguised. Right then, she didn't care. She turned and ran for him. Bastian! Standing at the door, so tall and proud. When he saw her, his lips parted, then he absently palmed the center of his chest. As she hadn't slowed, he opened his arms - she knew what this meant - but she didn't hesitate to run into them, leaping up and latc.. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 023aa22 | I have an idea. Let's take off our clothes and fool around on the settee. If I trip and fall and land smack-dab on your cock, then it won't be your fault. | lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| e7b3dd6 | Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3e03ebb | I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. | perseverance living hope life determination | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 7049fa0 | It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. | hopes hope grim-reality real-life | Anne Frank | |
| 5f0fae3 | I'm learning how to taste everything. | recovery | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 8fcb241 | Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me. | John Fowles | ||
| 3b8503d | What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there--that cloud--what do you see when you look at it?" "A fat cloud." Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?" He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds and three thin ones." | judith-mcnaught something-wonderful jordan | Judith McNaught | |
| 00a556d | Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. | James Baldwin | ||
| 5feceaf | Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that -- rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl -- my girl -- my girl that I'm proud of. | matthew l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 33e2dfe | In a culture which holds the two-parent patriarchal family in higher esteem than any other arrangement, all children feel emotionally insecure when their family does not measure up to the standard. A utopian vision of the patriarchal family remains intact despite all the evidence which proves that the well-being of children is no more secure in the dysfunctional male-headed household than in the dysfunctional female-headed household. Childr.. | feminism parenting | bell hooks | |
| 92b6aca | To think too much is a disease. | overthinking mental-illness | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 4027eb0 | That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it. | Eoin Colfer |