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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 | |
| 05dbd20 | He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 93d6285 | You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 8add051 | Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6954536 | Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b8873e6 | You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 329d26b | You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 19ec125 | Gods were like possums. You could go your whole life without seeing one, but once you found one of them, you found the whole freaky family. | covenant-series jennifer-l-armentrout sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 8949708 | The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. you "I've been to Tartarus and back," Nico snarled. "You don't scare me." " | love eros heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades nico-di-angelo rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 6d9901f | Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he'd picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me. | zeus rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 01df99d | One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid--Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical substances in the world. Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes--duct tape" | duct-tape percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 2564ed0 | Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| c23bfd1 | your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world. | fatal-flaw percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| fc400ea | Um..." Hazel faltered. "You mean you won't... you're not going to-" "Claim your life?" Thantos asked. "Well, let's see..." He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death, tapped the screen a few times, and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reaping souls. "I don't see you on the list," Thantos said. "Pluto gives me specific orders for escaped souls, you see. For some reason, he has not issued a warrant fo.. | riordan thantos rick frank jackson percy hazel | Rick Riordan | |
| 5c7b24f | When he woke, daylight was coming through the glass floor, and a boy's voice said, "Oh...You are in so much trouble." | Rick Riordan | ||
| fe171e5 | Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. | Henry Miller | ||
| acb733f | One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 233d6e4 | She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. | events mercy | Margaret Atwood | |
| 9215ed3 | I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not." | humor julie-garwood romance-novels | Julie Garwood | |
| a215ef8 | One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| adc5790 | She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her. | love leave hurt | Christine Feehan | |
| 052bcdc | Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 98c4fa4 | Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. "The Magic Flute" v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. "The Last Supper" v. Crime and Punishment? Fyodor on points. See? I mean, I don't know how scientific this is, but it feels like the no.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 132cc66 | Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e7b993e | Jealousy--at least as far as he understood it from his dream--was the most hopeless prison in the world. Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate entered voluntarily, locked the door, and threw away the key. And not another soul in the world knew he was locked inside. Of course if he wanted to escape he could do so. The prison, was after all, his own heart. But he couldn't make that decisio.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a71571d | Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| ab3c6e4 | She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2addab8 | That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more." | pain love | Ray Bradbury | |
| a4f051a | Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. | life | Ray Bradbury | |
| 21d0191 | They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. | fear chain-reactions political-bias religious-prejudice control | Ray Bradbury | |
| afc1fcb | The more I wonder, the more I love. | Alice Walker | ||
| 50ab3f2 | I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass. | holidays disappointment | Sylvia Plath | |
| 3d45cad | How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old? | John Updike | ||
| e6d9093 | Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. | heros quest | Peter S. Beagle | |
| d080b73 | And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| dbf4bb0 | If you must err, do so on the side of audacity. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 3a992d6 | GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to .. | poetry | Robert Frost | |
| 625dbba | Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, he even got your name branded into the back of his neck." "They say 'LB,' Carlos. The initials for Latino Blood." "No, no, no. You've got it all wrong. He wants everyone to think that, but in reality it means Lover of Brittany. LB, get it?" | brittany fuentes simone-elkeles perfect-chemistry carlos-fuentes alex rules-of-attraction carlos | Simone Elkeles | |
| a53f400 | You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 9db72d9 | Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it.Forever." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 2d3da70 | Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. | shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 02bd3ac | We burn daylight. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d37678f | You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| a5c233f | I don't care what he thinks. Only what you think." He holds me tighter. "Like if you think I need to stop biting my nails." "You've worn your pinkies to nubs," I say cheerfully." | Stephanie Perkins |