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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df3a4a8 | I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening. | John Grisham | ||
| fc1539c | The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired. | Michael Lewis | ||
| e998cb1 | I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me... | loneliness louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 122e21b | I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 2ff39ac | I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people-and especially doctors- had doubts about normality. They weren't sure normality was up the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| fe9bbbd | Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2c54737 | Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. | equivocation | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ca61af2 | An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they're the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they need to read your child's chart to remember where they've left off from the previous visit. It is the nurses who are the seasoned sergeants -- the ones who are there when your baby is shaking with such a high fever she needs to be bathed in ice.. | movie-adaptations my-sister-s-keeper nurses wonderful | Jodi Picoult | |
| 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?" | alex brittany carlos carlos-fuentes fuentes perfect-chemistry rules-of-attraction simone-elkeles | 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 | ||
| 41b2f1c | Yeah, you're sitting in a tree because you're . That's easy to see. I can't believe this is , destroyer of despots, warrior hottie, leader of the flock! All you need now to make yourself more pathetic is a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream! | dylan max maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 6a7d444 | We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. | Maya Angelou | ||
| bc11f91 | I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords. | William Goldman | ||
| d7108e6 | Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old. | don godfather mario puzo vito | Mario Puzo | |
| 7afd0b2 | I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children." | Harper Lee | ||
| 9c79981 | With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus. | lie | David Levithan | |
| 006efad | We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time. | David Levithan | ||
| 8c973bf | We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 62975ac | No Help of that There is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space. And even during the best moments and the greatest times we will know it We will know it more that ever. There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that place. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 36561b3 | I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. | music | Charles Bukowski | |
| d204da1 | I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| e9b1eb3 | We can only learn so much and live. | Thomas Harris | ||
| dd4e0c6 | I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. | prison | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 4d532bf | For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will never stand up against a girl who is clearly physically attractive. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| a38147c | I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car." Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?" "No. But I like to pretend it is." | magic-strikes saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| 436abfd | Would you care for something to drink?" "Is it poisoned?" "It's Saturday," I said. "We only serve poison during the week." | ilona andrews | ||
| 5e7ad6f | Sleep comes more easily than it returns. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 850ae60 | You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world. | voltaire world | Voltaire | |
| ec10e11 | I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 8f3f73b | When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1a69059 | Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 55f8cf3 | Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead | sam-roth | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| 1980a37 | friendship and love blind every man to their interests. | Robert Greene | ||
| 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 |