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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1e6b853 | What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unmourned, well, you get the drift. As a counselor once told me -a counselor for Disaffected Yought, I might add: "You like that crap because it reminds you of you." Couldn't of said it better or put it more bluntly. Don'.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 72bbccc | Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 0defe76 | Too much excitement, Your Majesty?" I asked. "He was standing too close." "He was asking about Andrea." "Too close. I didn't like it." Curran wrapped his arm around my shoulders and started walking, steering me away from the group. His Possessive Majesty in all of his glory." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 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. | heart human-nature inquisitive learning love | 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 | ||
| 157430f | The day was gray, the color of Europe. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5a4fbeb | But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. | future life | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 4e88dcd | Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. | knowledge poetry | George Eliot | |
| 0ca2d7f | Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure. | Voltaire | ||
| b0f1c6b | Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways--the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and b.. | inspirational nature | Ernest Becker | |
| 505df31 | For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control. | bible inspirational | Anonymous | |
| 4e16410 | She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment. | suicide | Mitch Albom | |
| 9757e96 | Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love. | words | Laura Esquivel | |
| 84627b2 | No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 35fbb03 | Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 9105930 | And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 319cbdb | You took too much man, too much, too much. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 34935a6 | One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent... Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 35ae358 | The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain. | fall imagery | Ray Bradbury | |
| 60ddb2d | How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in? | Francine Rivers | ||
| 321d56e | Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. | Alice Walker | ||
| d40354a | I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 3c7faa7 | I woke to the sound of rain. | rain simple subtle | Sylvia Plath | |
| e8efcb4 | Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. | words | A.S. Byatt | |
| 0cd63d4 | If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d89642b | Infuriated, I scrambled over him, even more furious when I saw the humored glint in his eyes. "God you tick me off." "Well at least I got you--" "Don't even finish that statement!" | jennifer-armentrout katy-swartz opal the-lux-series | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| ec3f0e3 | The shadow pulled away, moving forward quickly. My first instinct screamed Arum and to push away from it. I reached blindly for the obsidian necklace, realizing too late I didn't have it anymore. "You're still having nightmares," the shadow said. At the sound of the familiar voice, fear gave way to rage so potent that it tasted like a battery acid. I was on my feet before I knew it. "Blake," I spat." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4b88387 | If you start climbing on car hoods, I think I might marry you." I rolled my eyes and straightened, giving my head one more shake. "Done." He stared at me. "You're cute." "You're weird." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| af5a963 | Are you having a good time with...Ash?" "Are you having a good time with Happy Hands?" I bit down on my lip. "Such a constant smartass." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0073b47 | Nico had proven himself in other ways. He'd kept the camps' secrets for the best of reasons, because he feared a war. He had plunged into Tartarus alone, voluntarily, to find the Doors of Death. He'd been captured and imprisoned by giants. He had led the crew of the Argo II into the House of Hades...and now he had accepted yet another terrible quest: raking himself to haul the Athene Parthenos back to Camp Half-Blood. | nico-di-angelo tartarus | Rick Riordan | |
| 1521704 | Whoa," Connor Stoll said. "Back up. Zoom in right there." "What?" Annabeth said nervously. "You see invaders?" "No, right there--Dylan's Candy Bar." Connor grinned at his brother. "Dude, it's open. And everyone is asleep. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "Connor!" Katie Gardner scolded. She sounded like her mother, Demeter. "This is serious. You are not going to loot a candy store in the middle of a war!" "Sorry," Connor muttered, but h.. | connor-stoll katie-gardner | Rick Riordan | |
| a15fc7d | I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what. | Rick Riordan | ||
| fe9cc0a | Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together--blah, blah, I didn't really listen to teh details--and Drew had been just as much a tyrant there. ~Sadie Kane, about Lacy and Drew of Aphrodite cabin. | rick-riordan sadie | Rick Riordan | |
| f54670f | Hermes's eyes twinkled. "Martha, may I have the first package, please?" Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog. "That's Hercules," I said. "But how.. | collectible gift hercules hermes humor martha percy-jackson tv | Rick Riordan | |
| d6509f3 | One basketball to rule them all," Leo muttered." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 21835c5 | I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut's five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9cc9b88 | YEAH! WHO DIED? WHO CAME BACK? WHO'S YOUR FREAKIN' SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE NOW, BABY? WOOOOOOOO! | Rick Riordan | ||
| 5d55eb8 | Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family? | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 5b7a515 | Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again. | time | Margaret Atwood |