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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | sould injuries psyche wounds ptsd | 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 | ||
| 79c5195 | Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 45b5e3f | Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate. | hate love | James M. Cain | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| e67cdc6 | Be of love(a little) | E. E. Cummings | ||
| 229e844 | I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3c2a18a | It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies | Jack Kerouac | ||
| ae57ae2 | Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it. | shane | Rachel Caine | |
| 99d987b | Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I'll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other's body, and my impatience to know everything about this person. Looking back, I should have taken it more slowly, measured him out over the course of fifty years rather than cramming him in so quickly. By the end of our first month together, he'd been so thoroughly interrogated that all I had left was breaking news--what little had happene.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 9e63b10 | Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs. | suicide first-sentence | Lynda Barry | |
| 8c3e34f | And yes, I came over here fully intending to seduce you." He lifted his head and whispered in my ear, "It's what I'm good at. Just like you're good at evading demons and kicking ass." "Kicking ass?" I questioned as he dropped his head back to the arm of the couch. His hand was exploring again, and I didn't want to move. "Yeah," he said, and I jumped as he found a ticklish spot. "I like a woman who takes care of herself." "Not much of a whit.. | rachel | Kim Harrison | |
| 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. | maryse-lightwood isabelle-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." | fun humor love city-of-ashes clary-fray the-mortal-instruments simon-lewis cassandra-clare 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. | jessa why jem | 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. | parting-ways jem-carstairs 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. | truth mark-blackthorn shadowhunters | 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 rabies woolsey magnus magnus-bane werewolf | 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 |