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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| db6c0c5 | Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? | Stephen Fry | ||
| 11264b7 | Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch. Is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee, a bee that is watched will work harder you see. So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch that bee didn't work any harder not mawtch. So then somebody said "Our old bee-watching man just isn't bee watching as hard as he can, he ought to be watched by another Hawtch-.. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 99a48e4 | Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and tickle of water that ran out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island. The air was cool, moist, and clear; and presently even the sound of the water was still. The beast lay huddled on the pale beach and th.. | William Golding | ||
| afe8fdc | Learning the truth has become my life's love. | life truth | Dan Brown | |
| afdc478 | Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. | Dan Brown | ||
| a2b4926 | Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. | Jack London | ||
| b325f5b | The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ea4a74f | They're just memories now. Time to write them off. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ccd0fea | It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9f59e68 | Frequency of sex - Women sometimes wanted; men always needed. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8fc5803 | When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others." | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| dc64b59 | Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. | inspirational jodi-picoult lone-wolf wise | Jodi Picoult | |
| 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? | love inspirational | 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 | ||
| 1408637 | You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.' So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said. | humor howl-s-moving-castle sophie howl | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| e059b35 | Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e38df74 | Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is. | life full-dark-no-stars roll sevens stephen-king fair | Stephen King | |
| 41b3b80 | Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind. | love the-stand stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 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 |