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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2329643 | Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. | truth | Henry Miller | |
| e452c53 | Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 5d7caa3 | Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 57ef2a1 | Dearest Cecilia, You'd be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don't think I can blame the heat. | madness lovers love | Ian McEwan | |
| 0579f9d | It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us. | photography mortality | Ian McEwan | |
| bd8676f | I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, 'If only she had started out with a good teacher and gotten the proper training, she'd be so much further along!' But I was wrong about that. She was not the kind of child who could stand proper training. There just happen to be people like that. They're blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can't make the effort t.. | reiko japanese talent | Haruki Murakami | |
| 3d8e1ad | The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ba49c51 | There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up. | girls | Haruki Murakami | |
| 653a39b | It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f127b88 | No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning. | warning sorrow kindness learning sadness strength truth sincerity | Haruki Murakami | |
| 68915b2 | Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn without incident and end as it had begun. It rained a lot in September. October had several warm, sweaty days. Aside from the weather, there was hardly anything to distinguish one day from the next. I worked at concentrating my attention on the real and useful. I would go to the pool almost every day for a long swim, take w.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1ae76eb | The older the violin, the sweeter the music. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6d4cb00 | To be honest, it was pretty hard to leave. I desperately wanted to turn around, and tell him everything would be okay. That I adore him and I trust him and that I'll stand by him while he goes through this tough time. But I'm just too tired. I'm thirty years old. I'm tired of relationships that are always painful. I'm tired of hurting. I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me.. | Kim Gruenenfelder | ||
| fa9181a | Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. | Walker Percy | ||
| 0d6ed4d | That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| dd9d08d | For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2dfe71f | Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 24cf0b5 | Emeth speaking of Aslan, "Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek...And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog" -- | emeth | C.S. Lewis | |
| 50727b6 | Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away." "But, Lena, that's sad." "No, if the sunset stayed and we got bored, that would be a real sadness." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 947f2ff | Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. | spirituality religion god mark-of-the-lion-series voice-in-the-wind | Francine Rivers | |
| 2de35f7 | No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid] | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| bc84d32 | I was keeping Bubba from committing a felony. No offense, but 'he's a zombie, Your Honor, don't electrocute me' isn't a viable excuse. Believe me, I know. My dad's doing three life sentences 'cause he killed, and I quote, 'a crap load of demons who were trying to kill me and if I hadn't killed them, Your Honor, they'd have taken over the city and enslaved all you petty, pathetic humans.' They wouldn't even let my dad plead insanity because .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| fa88a09 | Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 50a2d3b | Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight--a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold. | young-adult twilight-saga | Stephenie Meyer | |
| a9d2e2c | Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| fc3850b | Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams... | mind storytelling | Joseph Conrad | |
| be27d91 | You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 0fb8e02 | about her offer of a Swedish massage] Alex: You're not Swedish. Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference. | brittany perfect-chemistry | Simone Elkeles | |
| ade1e90 | Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible. | reality salman-rushdie | Salman Rushdie | |
| 3d4a8b5 | Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone. | past sadness | William Shakespeare | |
| 234462c | For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours. | love value regret | William Shakespeare | |
| f8648cd | Out of her favour, where I am in love. | unrequited-love | William Shakespeare | |
| a782d3d | Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 43ed832 | Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated. | women sing celebrate | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 1d93905 | It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!" | loneliness identity | Lewis Carroll | |
| e434b6f | You're doing the girl thing. Saying you're happy when you're not. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| c6c7962 | I had a question. 'Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?' The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. 'Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world,' he said crisply. 'It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War.' None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, 'It was a movie with Ben Affleck.' Ah. Now .. | James Patterson | ||
| f297004 | She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy. | Maya Angelou | ||
| a63ff68 | T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1623305 | I box in yellow Gox box socks. | rhyme | Dr. Seuss | |
| 3bf6d29 | The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?" | William Golding | ||
| d266935 | Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is that what you want to hear? Almost, Dominique. And the things you couldn't make me do -- you could put me through hell if you demanded them and I had to refuse you, as I would. Through utter hell, Dominique. Does that please you? Why do you want to know whether you own me? It's so simple. Of course you do. All of me that can be owned. You'll ne.. | own power | Ayn Rand | |
| 2696ef1 | We could live offa the fatta the lan'. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9b8667b | Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. | hope life significance purpose | Rick Warren |