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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | poetry knowledge | 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.. | nature inspirational | 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 | |
| f79491d | forgiving is not the same as forgetting. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 802666a | Atticus, you must be wrong." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . ." "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." | integrity | Harper Lee | |
| 1918422 | You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them. | hate relationships love intimacy | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 339e692 | When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel. | David Levithan | ||
| cc9e2d8 | there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot | love meetings infatuation | David Levithan | |
| a5aa812 | A sound waiting to be a word. | David Levithan | ||
| 2494556 | I'm a girl." When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed," she said. Deryn's mouth feel open. "You mean you...Did you barking ?" "I had no idea at all. But I make it a policy never to appear surprised." Dr. Barlow sighed, staring out the window. "Though on this occasion, it is proving rather more demanding than usual. A girl, you say? And you're quite certain?" | leviathant goliath deryn scott-westerfeld certainty sharp girl | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 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 | ||
| 9d7b84b | In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels | thoughts emotion science love inspirational neuropsychology biology | Daniel Goleman | |
| 1ab1386 | I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, It alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder. | Walt Whitman | ||
| d1360ac | Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call.. | Miranda July | ||
| 2337b2c | The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes." | life love | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 2002e38 | Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1a9a44a | Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| c44e389 | It's amazing the difference A bit of sky can make. | the-sky | Shel Silverstein | |
| eccd18a | Or maybe I had known him or maybe there's something that happens between some people at a level that goes beyond time measurements and what society thinks is proper. Maybe what had happened between Stark and me in those few minutes in the field house had been enough to have our souls recognize each other. Soul mates? Was that even possible? | p-c-cast the-house-of-night untamed | P.C. Cast | |
| f3bf25f | I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing. | P.C. Cast | ||
| 00d6f87 | In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. | perception | Thomas Hardy | |
| b30bf1f | We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. | christianity jesus spirituality god love philosophy inspirational excess-love saved-souls the-cross jesus-shock salvation cross saved theology christ sin | Peter Kreeft | |
| ce4972e | The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| bc65b15 | It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 8443dc7 | So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years- Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres- Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholy new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate, With shab.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| f0c7b73 | Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 6ee9ad7 | Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. | reality | Oscar Wilde | |
| 6e20ee8 | Sometimes when you start a war, you want to make pancakes. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 54a8858 | Fire tests gold | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8d15b08 | Blood isn't love | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8b9b0b3 | I prefer the school of life. | jordan-kyle | Cassandra Clare | |
| 62669e1 | Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream. "GO AWAY!" Simon looked sideways at Jace. "I think he means it." Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?" | jace-and-simon mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1dad1c7 | But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you. | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 53eeee4 | Look. Jammies. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 7a9dd66 | Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough--it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based--but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn't sink when I lost consciousness. And I will lose consciousness, Alec. | magnus-bane spell | Cassandra Clare | |
| c1f1635 | Simon?" she asked. "I have a stupid question." "What is it?" "Did you sleep with Isabelle?" Simon made a choking sound. Clary swiveled slowly around to look at him. "Are you okay?" she asked. "I think so," he said, recovering his poise with apparent effort. "Are you serious?" "Well, you gone all night." | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 343e521 | You weaseled your way into my life, Simon Lewis, and I don't know how or why or even when but it happened, and I kind of hate it but I can't change it, and here it is | Cassandra Clare | ||
| be766f6 | Oh, I'll trust you," the boy told him carelessly. "It hardly matters. We are all betrayed sooner or later--all betrayed, or traitors." "I see that a flair for the dramatic runs in the blood," Magnus said under his breath." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a3f82e3 | They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations... | Toni Morrison |