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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e7f44af | Man is, that he may have Joy. | inspirational | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | |
| e69b627 | The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young. | inspirational | Stephen King | |
| 3b30281 | SSDD Same Shit Different Day | Stephen King | ||
| fd86927 | She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs - pansies and rosemary - and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 4227772 | I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it"? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it -- that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?" | life | Virginia Woolf | |
| ac389d2 | Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace | loneliness peace reflection solitude tranquility | Dean Koontz | |
| d9ad96c | There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 0db7d3f | And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice." | malice misdirection wicked wicked-witch-of-the-west | Gregory Maguire | |
| 6e3c3be | She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly. | Lucy Maud Montgomery | ||
| eee94ad | I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean. | ocean sea | Ai Yazawa | |
| fd2ee5f | It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 1230d12 | It was a kingdom of dreams -- a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be. | kingdome want | Judith McNaught | |
| 8a1e912 | The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs. | the-key-to-the-golden-firebird | Maureen Johnson | |
| 3571474 | I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off. | part-ii | Willa Cather | |
| 0d1b203 | He gave everything to everybody. Except to me. | anger bitter sadness the-ones-we-leave-behind | J.K. Rowling | |
| b5cc956 | Our children will be born of our actions. . Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his br.. | Zadie Smith | ||
| ddda1ae | Evie replied with an eye-roll. "Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I'm gone?" "The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll." Sam smirked. "You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd." | Libba Bray | ||
| 0047e8f | I guess my life hasn't always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they'll break my heart. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 965ad56 | Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly | J. D. Salinger | ||
| 64b51cf | But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 62d3234 | I'm the Captain of the Guard-I'm not exactly a catch for any of them." There was sorrow in his eyes, though it was well concealed. "Are you mad? You're better than anyone in here." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b2ceb46 | She'd been in love with him for a while now. Longer than she wanted to admit. She tried not to think about it, whether he felt the same. Those things--those wishes--were at the bottom of a very, very long and bloody priority list. So | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c807005 | The male I fell in love with was you. It was you, who knew pain as I did, and who walked me through it, back to the light. Maeve didn't understand that. That even if she could create this perfect world, it wouldn't be you with me. And I'd never trade that, trade this. Not for anything. | kingdom-of-ash maeve rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 33b719c | I was never afraid of the consequences of being with you. Even if every assassin in the world hunts us ... It's worth it. You are worth it. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| fad0f7e | Stars flickered around us, sweet darkness sweeping in. As if we were the only souls in a galaxy. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 778a940 | Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 53ea712 | love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one | poetry reason | E.E. Cummings | |
| 8971c42 | Kid," Richard said wearily, "I am not in the mood. I haven't slept in thirty-six hours, my sister's crazy-" "Hey!" Monica protested. "-and you're not my high school crush-" "He is not my high school crush, Richard!" "The point it, I couldn't give a crap about you, your friends, or your problems, because for me this isn't personal. Monica will kill you because she's nuts. I'll kill you because you make me kill you. Are we straight?" "Well," .. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 90b03c9 | Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love." "I hardly think there's any chance of that," Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity." | eve-rosser funny ghost-town humor michael-glass morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine shane-collins teacher vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| c3b5092 | Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth. | tv | Rachel Caine | |
| 69463ee | It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well. | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| fa75ba3 | Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 759ce9d | And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 401b4db | The silence was an intense roar. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 1778d04 | I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house. | women | Mary Stewart | |
| e080028 | In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 9cd8dd1 | Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 40b0b04 | Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 1af26ba | Tu n'etais plus qu'un insecte prisonnier d'une araignee repue, qui te gardait en reserve pour un repas a venir. Elle t'avait capture pour te savourer en toute quietude, quand l'envie lui viendrait de gouter ton sang. Tu imaginais ses pattes velues, ses gros yeux globuleux, implacables, son ventre mou, gorge de viande, vibrant, gelatineux, et ses crocs venimeux, sa bouche noire qui allait te sucer la vie. | Thierry Jonquet | ||
| 401a25e | If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 16faa18 | Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are. | richard-bach | Richard Bach | |
| ff913ec | We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. | identity past personal-history self | Joan Didion | |
| 88b6d02 | But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 6d02b0e | Lately I've become so damned distracted that I can't make a decision about anything. I can't think clearly. I've got knots in my stomach, and constant pains in my chest, and whenever I see you talking to any man, or smiling at anyone, I go insane with jealousy. I can't live this way. I--" He broke off and stared at her incredulously. "Damn it, Evie, what is there for you to smile about?" "Nothing," she said, hastily tucking the sudden smile.. | Lisa Kleypas |