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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| af49e17 | It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. | fallen plath sylvia the-bella-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| fb18056 | If not for the horses, Piper would've died. | horses percy-jackson-and-the-olympians piper-mclean the-mark-of-athena | 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 | ||
| 2a2bc26 | If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third. | adversary battle strategy war | 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. | blessing christian fun god inspirational jesus leisure rest work | 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. | genesis narnia | 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| e5a2441 | Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 92b6aca | To think too much is a disease. | mental-illness overthinking | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| cee0a66 | There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem) | safe | John C. Maxwell | |
| 38eb7d5 | Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only--finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember that your nature and you past doings have been kist like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming l.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| ff4bc93 | Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. | neil gaiman | ||
| fd7c818 | The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 38de9a0 | We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. | Carl Sagan | ||
| ba8592e | Life is a series of choices between wonders. | John Green | ||
| dbcf5e2 | The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance. | wardstone-chronicles | Joseph Delaney | |
| a7d17d6 | We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?" | jace mortal-instruments sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
| f8369ae | One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out of its way, and it hit the floor inches from where she'd been standing, leaving a sizable dent in the floor. A second later Jace's arms were around her and he was lifting her off her feet. She was too surprized to struggle as he carried her over to the broken window and dumped her unceremoniously out of it. | mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 155f51d | Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic. | isabelle-lightwood maryse-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2b6e420 | She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 36f9220 | And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?" He laughed bitterly. "Because I forsee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin pina colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin." | cassandra-clare city-of-ashes clary-fray fun humor love simon-lewis the-mortal-instruments vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| 19c98b3 | But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness. | wanting | Cassandra Clare | |
| b68944a | I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have. | jem jessa why | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0724ded | I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand. | jem-carstairs parting-ways will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| ad13007 | Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it." Luke laughed. "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever." -Clary & Luke, pg.415-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9d68731 | To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge. | mark-blackthorn shadowhunters truth | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8918edc | The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 1840f07 | Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal. | on-the-bridge will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9a18c98 | Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane | kinky lycanthropy magnus magnus-bane rabies werewolf woolsey | Cassandra Clare | |
| 63837aa | You know when most girls say they want a big rock, they dont mean, you know, literally a ." -Clary to Jace, pg.313-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 052dfb5 | Faith isn't never having any doubts; it's having what you need to overcome them. | faith julian-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare |