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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6461330 | But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 56a242a | For it is easier to shout 'Stop', than to do it | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 66fa8d6 | To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 756ce12 | That's libertarians for you -- anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 20546dd | Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1db24f0 | Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 960dfd0 | We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. O.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 39848f7 | There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a3f1551 | I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say." "That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are..." "You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 23bdf2e | I was thinking the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but I've found it really useful -" "Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?" "I've used it against him," said Harry quietly. "It saved my life last June." Smith opened his mouth stupidly. The rest of the room.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7a56a25 | You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cc4f9ce | said Harry in a fierce voice. " -- --" "MUUUUUUM!" howled Dudley, "He's doing you know what!" | magic fantasy humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 343bec2 | I refuse to let the past find me here. | Libba Bray | ||
| af35cf1 | Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal. | veganism holocaust | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 5cb9ad6 | We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place... | Michael Chabon | ||
| 93d7fd5 | Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 75a1897 | A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: "Aren't you tired of waiting?" "Yes," answers the rose, "but if I close my petals, I will wither and die." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e5f3da6 | Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, falling in love, war, the discoveries people made about each other. The only thing that didn't bore me, obviously enough, was how much money Tim Price made, and yet in its obviousness it did. There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a human being - fle.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 5198f61 | Clay, did you ever love me?" I'm studying a billboard and say that I didn't hear what she said. "I asked if you ever loved me?" On the terrace the sun bursts into my eyes and for one blinding moment I see myself clearly. I remember the first time we made love, in the house in Palm Springs, her body tan and wet, lying against cool, white sheets. "Don't do this, Blair," I tell her. "Just tell me." I don't say anything. "Is it such a hard ques.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 3ad5611 | When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 124302e | No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine. | seeker | Hermann Hesse | |
| 890af06 | Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they're going so much that it's worth it. Maybe they'll keep coming back, until there's only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday--if it keeps coming back often enough--another star will find it again | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 2c4242d | I once lived in a place where the opinion of others mattered. It suffocated me, nearly broke me. So you'll understand me, Feyre, when I say that I know what you feel, and I know what they tried to do to you, and that with enough courage, you can say to hell with a reputation. You do what you love, what you need | mor feyre | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0b501d7 | Aelin frightens everyone. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 13faef6 | It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 6a49f47 | You dress her in a wet T-shirt and make her carry the bags? Damn, Cade, I like how you roll" - Rok" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 7968788 | The mystery of the universe is not time but size. | Stephen King | ||
| 7750221 | And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. | wealth | William Gibson | |
| 89fec32 | To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. | feelings | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 252effe | A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery | Anne Frank | ||
| 29b0d3e | The number doesn't matter. If I got down to 070.00, I'd want to be 065.00. If I weight 010.00, I wouldn't be happy until I got down to 005.00. The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e6464c8 | Salt. Wound. Together at last. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| c654593 | Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever. | story storytellers | Chinua Achebe | |
| b364ee1 | The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're .. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| e8205e2 | One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. | bell hooks | ||
| 2e123e4 | The Russian soul is a dark place. | souls russians | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 5275dd0 | I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c608c28 | Stark raving sane. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| f681730 | When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart. | learning heart love inquisitive human-nature | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 275982b | If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 99aec4f | That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4b31fd9 | When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8b78c9b | Consistency is the defense of a small mind | David Eddings | ||
| 390a23b | And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me. | Markus Zusak |