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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 3e528b1 | You had many more years," he said. "I didn't want them." "But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future." "What's that?" "Hope." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 16ef79a | For as much as I hate the cemetery, I've been grateful it's here, too. I miss my wife. It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive. | death loss mourning | John Scalzi | |
| 347d520 | But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 036498b | All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 302808b | I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 47b9c8f | Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. | looking-down | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 75304f1 | I'm really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don't remember! | Ray Bradbury | ||
| da4b34b | Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? | lightning nature rain thunder wind | Ray Bradbury | |
| a241c09 | Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles & smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up. He's had his fun & he's guilty. And all men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors & smells. Times come when troughs, not tables, suit appetites.. | man pig sin sty | Ray Bradbury | |
| d9505b8 | So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought. When I see the boy and his friend walking up the road to deliver the newspaper. They wear caps and sweaters, and one boy has a bag over his shoulder. They are so happy they aren't saying anything, these boys. I think if they could, they would take each other's arm. It's early in the morning, and they are doing thi.. | life poetry | Raymond Carver | |
| 24f0748 | There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: "I'll go take a hot bath." | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 9eece8d | Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 948a183 | The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies. | life | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 2de2177 | I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 1084e96 | It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose. | love rose | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 78b699e | Everything could come to a crashing end for us if we were caught, but it didn't matter. Right now, being with him seemed worth whatever consequence could come from it. This was right, like it was meant to be. There was no logical explanation for it. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ec5470f | Well, it was probably the fever. You were burning up." My eyes snapped back to his. "You touched me?" "Yes, I touched you...and you weren't wearing a lot of clothes." The smug stretch of his lips spread. "And you were soaked ...in a white T-shirt. Nice look. Very nice." Heat crept over my cheeks. "The lake...it wasn't a dream?" Daemon shook his head. "Oh my God, so I did go swimming in the lake?" He pushed off the desk and took one step .. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 846e6ea | You know, my sister and I can't understand what Dawson sees in you. You're just a silly little human." His arm shot out so fast it was a blur, picked up a strand of her hair. "And you're really not even that pretty." Oh...oh, that stung more than it should have. Tears burned her eyes as she fought to keep her voice level. "I guess it's a good thing, then. A relationship between us would never work." His eyes narrowed. "And why is that?" "Be.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0e57f8c | I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 02f08f1 | I told my brain. , said my brain. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 81596d6 | We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was mt face. "Sorry," she murmured. "S'okay," I .. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 74f13ed | Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What's the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?" "That would be Antarctica," Zia said. "A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins." "Magic penguins?" "Don't ask." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6358246 | It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 8da2932 | The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| c1c5b07 | I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army! --Mat Cauthon | mat-cauthon matrim robert-jordan wheel-of-time | Robert Jordan | |
| 8445fcf | I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book. | navelgazing writing | Erica Jong | |
| e2f9b21 | People always loved best what they identified most with. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 6860540 | Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| f4ee457 | Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good? | chicken factory-farms vegetarianism | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 454168a | I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. | humor | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| d45b4d9 | I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e377804 | She has the gift of accepting her life. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 4c611f9 | Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 842f72e | I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 27a39f0 | Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything. | Kim Gruenenfelder | ||
| b2497da | Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive. And though it may be human nature to dwell, like many natural things it's senseless, senseless to allow a single thought to inhabit a mind because thoughts are like guests or fair-weather friends. As soon as they arrive, they can leave, and even the ones that take a long time to emerge fully can disappear in an instant. Moments are precio.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3b4d916 | Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. | life nature pain suffering | C.S. Lewis | |
| a57e8a1 | I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 0a171cd | Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 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!... | delight wonder | 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 | ||
| 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 |