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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
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 | ||
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 | ||
96c4d54 | A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love. | love romance writing | Honoré de Balzac | |
99fa28a | There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering, is simply this: everything is connected. Everything. Many, if not most, of the links are difficult to determine. The instrument, the apparatus, the focused ray that can uncover and illuminate those connections is language. And just as a sudden infatuation often will light up a person's biochemical atmosphere more.. | tribute | Tom Robbins | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
017f2c0 | How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. | life-is-evil schopenhauer | Will Durant | |
c2cf2cd | They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing. | Neil Gaiman | ||
46f10b4 | It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is | Neil Gaiman | ||
32fc77f | A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being? | earth science space-exploration | Carl Sagan | |
828c379 | It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way." "Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
1be5d1e | This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. | Rudyard Kipling |