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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc621f0 | It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night. | rain rainy-night | Jack Kerouac | |
| 8e27bb4 | There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write. | Sarah Dunant | ||
| 3fc3c9e | I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 0a32365 | either you're a whore, or you think I am. The first I'm willing to believe. The second I know isn't true. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 9a5c6a1 | You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. | free-will freedom self-determination | Sam Harris | |
| a591792 | To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. | planning success | Isaac Asimov | |
| c22f7b6 | The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 93f2ece | There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat And his face in the fish And his big hairy paws In the buttery dish, He's nibbling the noodles, And munching the rice, He's slurping the soda, He's licking the ice. And he lets out a roar If you open the door. And it gives me a scare To know he's in there-- That Polary Bear In our Fridgitydaire. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 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 | |
| 3d36b1c | Ash paused as he entered the house to find the three women lined up and... singing to... dear gods, anything but this. "Fergilicious." All he needed was for Simi to be here and off-key with them since it was her favorite song and he'd spent the better part of the last year cursing whoever was dumb enough to introduce that song to a hormonal teenaged demon. Worst part? Simi wanted him to call her Similicious." | humor simi | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 48b007b | I'll check on you when I get home. I love you, baby. (Kiefer) I love you too, Daddy. (Kiara) What the hell was that action? (Syn) I think it's something called 'paternal concern.' (Nykyrian) What...? You sure? I thought that crap was a myth. (Syn) No, really. I watched it once in a documentary. It was fascinating. Believe it or not, there are people out there who actually have feelings for their progeny. (Nykyrian) Get the fuck out. No way... | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| dff5a8d | Sounds like someone's hit the terrible twos." "Threes actually," Quil corrected. "You missed the party. Princess theme. She made me wear a crown, and then Emily suggested they all try out her new play makeup on me." "Wow, I'm REALLY sorry I wasn't around to see that." Don't worry, Emily has pictures. Actually, I look pretty hot." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6474608 | Woo!" Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!" Jacob and Charlie jumped. The rest of us froze. Charlie recovered, then looked at Emmett over his shoulder. "Florida winning?" "Just scored the first touchdown," Emmett confirmed. He shot a look in my direction, wagging his eyebrows like a villain in vaudville. "'Bout time somebody scored around here." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| fb0c8b2 | I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 15a7d2f | It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 68d6cdf | ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you? ESTRAGON: You let me go. | solidarity | Samuel Beckett | |
| b87d542 | most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. | inspirational love | Anne Lamott | |
| f49285b | Silflay hraka, u embleer rah! | Richard Adams | ||
| c77e7d7 | Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| c87d8b0 | I turned to speak to God About the world's despair | Robert Frost | ||
| 4b68c67 | What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? | friendship | Richard Russo | |
| 0b2dcc5 | The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being. | love | Simone Elkeles | |
| 99179ee | For a long while I have believed - this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama's belief in a fourth function of outsideness - that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached, if you like, without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race; that there may even be millions, billions of such souls, as many non-belongers .. | outsider | Salman Rushdie | |
| c70af60 | We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| dcd2f1e | I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. | macbeth shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| e9ba4c0 | Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. | motivation self-confidence willpower | William Shakespeare | |
| a43baaa | And therefore, -- since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, -- I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. | shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 4ffde89 | Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 691013a | You have a roommate." "Yeah." He sounds confused. "The, um, picture on your door surprised me." "NO. No. I prefer my women with...fewer carnivorous beasts and less weaponry." He pauses and smiles. "Naked is okay. What she needs are a golden retriever and a telescope. Maybe then it would do it for me." I laugh. "A squirrel and a laboratory beaker?" "A bunny rabbit and a flip chart," I say. "Only if the flip chart has mathematical equations o.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| a993663 | I'm gonna barf," I whispered to Fang,wiping my sweaty hands on my jeans. You'll be fine," he whipered back. "You always are. | James Patterson | ||
| 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 | ||
| c4d6881 | She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all." (Chapter 1)" -- | Harper Lee | ||
| 1d9a4a9 | So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all? | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| a3e2ec5 | And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person. | David Levithan | ||
| 66ad220 | I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. | David Levithan |