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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9dccaa5 | Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 94aefbe | There is, then, a world immune from change. But I am not composed enough, standing on tiptoe on the verge of fire, still scorched by the hot breath, afraid of the door opening and the leap of the tiger, to make even one sentence. What I say is perpetually contradicted. Each time the door opens I am interrupted. I am not yet twenty-one. I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 9399d49 | Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall | virginia woolf | ||
| b509d74 | Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set.. | marriage humor happily-ever-after | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| 38ea92a | Mr Freeman: "Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag." He sticks his finger down his throat. "The next time you work on your trees, don't think about trees. Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 23820b7 | I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. | inspirational | Pat Conroy | |
| 1a93bc5 | I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once. | Pat Conroy | ||
| b1883d7 | Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. | simplicity materialism | Henry David Thoreau | |
| e601e58 | If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody. | love | James Baldwin | |
| 3c05621 | Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays." | silence love distrust | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 517cf77 | A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong. | true-love fear heart love generousity belonging gift | Bell Hooks | |
| e8074e2 | Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!... | wonder delight | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e8cb7e6 | Everything passes, only truth remains. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 59b7498 | May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 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 sociology power | 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. | poetry breezes sunsets dreaming child | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 33c3c9c | What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 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. | romance love | 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. | house-of-leaves insightful horror | 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 | ||
| 9da041b | Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 80dc264 | Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point." | dr-mills s-claire the-morganville-vampire-series doctor-mills the-morganville-vampires shane michael-glass michael doctor ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine shane-collins vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 5bb9cd7 | Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness? | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| bd08952 | My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 04bd97f | Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace's last name. It was the name of heroes. | herondales mundanes james-herondale william-herondale herondale jace-herondale shadowhunters students | Cassandra Clare | |
| 249cd13 | Yes, I'm adopted. My folks were not blessed With me in the usual way. But they me, They me From all the rest, Which is lots more than most kids can say. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| ed1c3c3 | Who am I? Who am I?" "You're Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You're the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You're the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs. You're a New Yorker. You live in SoHo. You volunteer for an arts organization; yo.. | Hanya Yanagihara |