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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | claudia emily-giffin love | 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. | kate magic-bleeds | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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 | ||
| 1100a92 | We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 547cca5 | Write. Don't think. Relax. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7cc533f | He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings | literature poetry words | Emily Dickinson | |
| 943af36 | What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| db9d7c3 | Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early. | Aimee Bender | ||
| fbf9209 | Wait. Is this book about aliens?" She snatched it back from me. "Yes." "Really?" "But they're hot aliens." She tapped on the guy's face with one thin finger. "And he can be my ET any day." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e4b6de0 | I thought people in small towns were supposed to be nice, not act like the son of Satan. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 24620a9 | What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot!" | Darren Shan | ||
| 5eb1ac7 | Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?" -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 84a6209 | Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong." | ghosts hazel-levesque house-of-hades nico-di-angelo percy-jackson-and-te-olympians rick-riordan siblings underworld | Rick Riordan | |
| 006a3f8 | Piper bit her lip. The last thing she wanted to do was check Katopris for more terrifying images. 'I've tried,'she said.'The dagger doesn't always show what I want to see. In fact,it hardly ever does' 'Please,'Percy said.'Try again.' He pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help.Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy. 'Fine,'she sighed,and drew her dagger | percy-jackson piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| e734425 | Do you have a favorite constalation, Percy?' I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he'd shoved into his jogging shorts, but i said. 'Uh, I like Hercules.' 'Why?' 'Well... because he had rotten luck. Even worse than mine. It makes me feel better." The jogger chuckled. 'Not because he was strong and famouse and all that?' 'No." | Rick Riordan | ||
| ae6770c | Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-" "You invented the Internet?" , Martha said. , George said. "It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats." | george hermes humor internet martha patience percy-jackson rat | Rick Riordan | |
| a87066c | You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' | Rick Riordan | ||
| 57212d4 | You, sir, are a ray of sunshine. -Percy Jackson | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8218bd5 | That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit | midas rivers | Rick Riordan | |
| 0b544e0 | Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 4826e35 | The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 7fd96f9 | His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, tense and brilliant, fierce, not loving. But her will had left her. A strange weight was on her limbs. She was giving way. She was giving up...she had to lie down there under the boughs of the tree, like an animal, while he waited, standing there in his shirt and breeches, watching her with haunted eyes...He too had bared the front part of hi.. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 12c0216 | He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library. | independent-thought influence originality thoughts | Milan Kundera | |
| e538095 | Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. | advice inspirational life mottos | Jhumpa Lahiri |