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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | |
| 60fdd8e | I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 71b345e | God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4d03326 | The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible. | art | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3580988 | But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| fa5d847 | All wars are sacred," he said. "To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too fu.. | war | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 970babc | I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5696f04 | Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars. | Markus Zusak | ||
| add4f8a | I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me. | sanctuary | Ned Vizzini | |
| d5a54eb | And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| bdb3e4d | Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 9cd1fae | When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with... | Lorrie Moore | ||
| ccd523c | We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 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 | ||
| 37cfabd | I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am." | David Levithan | ||
| 736ac94 | There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one. | David Levithan | ||
| a85d13e | Never trust a man in a jumpsuit | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 64900c4 | it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee. | nothing | Charles Bukowski | |
| c1e4608 | Love as a verb. Love as a commitment. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 819bf4f | You can love someone you mistrust. | love claudia emily-giffin | Emily Giffin | |
| 6ccdf5d | Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor. | David Mitchell | ||
| 85d0a6f | If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass. | David Mitchell | ||
| aa6a73c | Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 0e322de | Even a mistake is better than nothing. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 929756e | The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| d86f440 | Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all | Philip Pullman | ||
| e63a33f | Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie. | magic-bleeds kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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 | ||
| 4563b1c | He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all. | Miranda July | ||
| fc621f0 | It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night. | rain rainy-night | Jack Kerouac |