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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 23288a2 | Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. | inspirational | Stephen King | |
| c2a943c | I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| a64080d | We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it. | Betty Smith | ||
| 3d27ef9 | No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| f4645ff | When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 79ea81d | his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 96ecbc9 | I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin | conflict | Ai Yazawa | |
| ec1d0dc | The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 18b86e8 | I am infinitely strange to myself. | John Fowles | ||
| 31b782d | Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. | Norton Juster | ||
| 4d59576 | Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| e331cfa | If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 3f35e2f | Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."..." | expectations | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 206dfb0 | I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1488d34 | I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 135460b | Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 39d5af4 | Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| f1c20ad | But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| b008d43 | Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know. | Plato | ||
| ccb08de | I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos. | Yann Martel | ||
| 62b10dd | No, (slightly grandly) it's time that time-turning became a thing of the past. ALBUS: You're quite proud of that phrase, aren't you? SCORPIUS: Been working on it all day. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| acb06c5 | Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing...." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ac09710 | Hmm," said a small voice in his ear. "Difficult. Very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind either. There's talent, oh my goodness, yes -- and a nice thirst to prove yourself, now that's interesting. . . . So where shall I put you?" Harry gripped the edges of the stool and thought, . "Not Slytherin, eh?" said the small voice. "Are you sure? You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f1625cc | Ah! Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I'm afraid I've rather lost my liking for them -- but I think I'll be safe with a nice toffee, don't you?" He smiled and popped the golden-brown bean into his mouth. "Alas! Ear wax!" | humour toffee | J.K. Rowling | |
| 0e42a75 | The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. 'Harry... Potter...' And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great, glassy orbs sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b3cafba | Get up, you useless lump, get up! | humor j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| 83dc13a | Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart! | sorting-hat | J.K. Rowling | |
| d1243ca | As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him. | J. K. Rowling | ||
| f5c6c3a | I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me? | inspirational love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| c5526f5 | I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life. | stability | Nicholas Sparks | |
| c8d7d1e | I hate how the people who really you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don't understand you stick around. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 346e32a | How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage, for that matter. | Libba Bray | ||
| 490a1b2 | They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other | Michael Chabon | ||
| d1349d1 | A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever. | hymns | Max Lucado | |
| daf1a39 | God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus. | religion | Max Lucado | |
| f62faa3 | Choosing a path means having to miss out on others | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8e61b36 | You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e558f1d | You said you didn't care what I thought. Or what I did. Or if I died, if I'm not mistaken." "I lied! And you know I lied, you stupid bastard!" | love-quotes lovers lovers-quarrels | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 9bc1ae3 | My priority would be to protect my family -- and I would have picked whatever side could keep them safest. I hadn't thought of it as a weakness until now. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f8833a0 | It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c8f7aaa | We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8497ee8 | Michael!" Oliver's voice came faint through the front door. "Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!" "Trap," Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael's arm as he walked by. "Don't, man." "What's he going to do? Make faces at me?" | Rachel Caine | ||
| 32e19c2 | I think--I think it's a big deal. Bigger for him and Eve than for most people.' Shane kept his eyes down, fixed on the sidewalk and the steps they were taking. 'Look, ask him, okay? This is girl talk. I don't do girl talk.' She punched him in the shoulder. 'Ass.' 'That's better. I was starting to feel like we should go shoe shopping or something.' 'Being a girl is not a bad thing!' 'No.' He took his hand out of his pocket and put his arm ar.. | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 4563b1c | He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all. | Miranda July |