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| 14b4a95 | When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. | mankind naturalism | Stephen Crane | |
| c6abd13 | he wanted to say. And not "we" as in the Brotherhood. Not even "we" as in he and John. More like ... "me"." | qhuay qhuinn-and-blay | J.R. Ward | |
| 054d649 | Yo, cop. We're heading for Screamer's. You wanna come? | vampires | J.R. Ward | |
| 418dcfc | Goodbye blue Monday. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| f1b90db | She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. | women | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 68dae72 | It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 35c8da4 | We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become 'politicians'; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly outnumbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics, or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off under.. | political-science sad-but-true sword-sentiments | T.H. White | |
| 7766187 | The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek | wisdom | Brian Tracy | |
| dbf45e3 | I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong of me, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel." (Sookie Stackhouse)" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| a73dabc | Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. | luck | Garrison Keillor | |
| a16e467 | I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you? | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| e491d4c | Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 7794818 | It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt. | guilt remortgages | Veronica Roth | |
| de8038c | Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?" For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?" But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine the.. | julia-quinn romance | Julia Quinn | |
| 55e38e3 | And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 81dbd02 | Your brother Robb has been crowned King in the North. You and Aemon have that in common. A king for a brother." said Mormont. "And this too," said Jon. "A vow." The Old Bear gave a loud snort, and the raven took flight, flapping in a circle about the room. "Give me a man for every vow I've seen broken and the Wall will never lack for defenders." "I've always known that Rob will be Lord of Winterfell." Mormont gave a whistle, and the bird fl.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d058a14 | However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies. | humor indiviualism | Meg Cabot | |
| 809edd6 | To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication] | Agatha Christie | ||
| 7706d12 | Could you just call me Pigeon?" he asked the teacher when she read his name. "Does your mother call you Pigeon?" "No." "Then to me you are Paul." ... "Nathan Sutter," the teacher read. "My mother never calls me Nathan." "Is it Nate?" "She calls me Honeylips." | names nicknames | Brandon Mull | |
| 1106fdc | The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking. | perseverance | Anne Brontë | |
| 6e9ef68 | do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429 | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 27d2892 | You can't let the past ruin your future. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0a0b787 | One, and two, and three, four, five. Keep fighting like this and you will die," Janco sang." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ccc2f05 | I want you to have this." He extended his hand. On his palm sat the beautiful butterfly he had carved. Silver spots on the wings glinted in the sunlight, and a silver chain hung from a small hole drilled into its body. Valek looped the necklace around my neck. "When I carved this statue, I was thinking about you. Delicate in appearance, but with a strength unnoticed at first glance." His eyes met mine." | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 4dbad28 | D'Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he'll be his usual charming self by morning. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 434058c | Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet! | Jim Butcher | ||
| 84e6808 | I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a6f8feb | He's flint, you're tinder. | flame jude love-story lust power taryn the-cruel-prince | Holly Black | |
| d2cf72c | You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want. | shaping | Holly Black | |
| 2c455bc | He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall. | self-hatred | Marya Hornbacher | |
| e01d239 | I've always been a slow learner in some areas of my life.mostly the areas known as myself. Or maybe I should say 'selves.'because the fact is, I've never, even as a child, felt I'm only one self, only one person. I've always felt I'm quite a few more than one. For example, there's my jokey self, there's my morose and fed-up self,there's my lewd and disgusting self. There's my clever-clogs self, and my fading-violet-who-cant-make-up-her-mind.. | inspirational personality self | Aidan Chambers | |
| ab9c9c3 | Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate. | inspirational | Carolyn Crane | |
| 73c10dd | If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. | endurance faith inspirational lds patience sanctification | Sheri L. Dew | |
| e229e02 | I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY. | inspirational | Nelson Mandela | |
| 3e20ec5 | In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even .. | inspirational | Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
| 7c36087 | Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he'd never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home. | hope inspiration inspirational king-of-scars leigh-bardugo nikolai-lantsov | Leigh Bardugo | |
| 2a0d701 | What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is a very moving passage where Achilles overjoyed at the sight of the apparition - tries to throw his arms around the ghost of his old friend, and it vanishes. The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because tha.. | classics death dreams museum unhappiness | Donna Tartt | |
| a9ef693 | Eves, on the scale from wholesome to whoresome, you're practically Amish. | Kresley Cole | ||
| be9aba3 | Then realization had dawned. "Oh, my God, you're the one who hurt Davis, the boy I was with. You saw us together, and you threw him down a gully. He broke both of his legs!" "He lived?" Gaze narrowing, Lothaire had murmured, "Not for much Longer." | lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| fbf21c7 | I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 731e907 | I've been thinking lately about immortality. What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning memory and fame. I love watching old movies. I watch the faces of long-dead actors on the screen, and I think about how they'll never truly die. I know that's a cliche but it happens to be true. Not just the famous ones who everyone knows, the Clark Gables, the Ava Gardners, but the bit players, the mai.. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 1845664 | I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7c09993 | Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. ".. | childhood perspective | Norton Juster | |
| 4a2d22d | A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. | storytelling | Norton Juster |