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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c62e200 | Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on. | Jack London | ||
| 3815e47 | Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8023f8c | there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. | Truman Capote | ||
| 4a6907f | Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on mea.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4e0080a | Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d2caff0 | The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| 31ebca9 | My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death! | smaug strength | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 4fdd6a5 | When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 84e7b60 | Our life is a short time in expectation, a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. There is a quality of sadness that pervades all the moments of our lives. It seems that there is no such thing as a clear-cut pure joy, but that even in the most happy moments of our existence we sense a tinge of sadness. In every satisfaction, there is an awareness of limitations. In every success, there is the fear of jealousy. Behind.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 0d456c2 | all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| c54aa41 | It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 28c80c4 | I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick the jerk over the nice guy? | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 4113b0c | Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life. | emmett | Stephenie Meyer | |
| b146763 | I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own. | individuality | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| fd98f95 | I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced. | Anne Lamott | ||
| ab82c35 | Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 0e096a5 | the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 8219bd6 | Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it. | love | Erin McCarthy | |
| 54a90fe | This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| b5bc7fe | In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 51c6481 | Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing | courtship love | William Shakespeare | |
| d95bc6a | It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 36ce6a8 | It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close. | love romance | David Levithan | |
| 61cda1e | Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? | David Levithan | ||
| 7fabfb9 | I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 1a4dc13 | Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 86e8436 | Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold. | horror house-of-leaves insightful | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 65be85f | I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty. | Colum McCann | ||
| 568b21b | I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder. | Michael Jackson | ||
| c90dc4f | Keeping you safe keeps me in shape. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2f4dc93 | Your sword is made out of your grandmother's bones?" "Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that tone of voice" -- | kate sword | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6618595 | Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?" His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?" "Yes it is." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d55e6c4 | Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| fe27138 | Artemis: I am not buoyed by that. Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized. Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| ed794dd | What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. | humanity power sociology | Leo Tolstoy | |
| c3e1ff9 | she smiled at him, and at her own fears. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 07a18ff | Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here. | flowers-for-algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| 3556e99 | So many humans. So many colors. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 80bfac7 | But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| ab5467b | She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 98d6247 | Done is better than good. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cde4c3d | Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 75b0953 | And the walls became the world all around. | Maurice Sendak | ||
| bf94e48 | And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. | breezes child dreaming poetry sunsets | Nicholas Sparks |