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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c88d75a | Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| f2fbf8e | I can't cheer up -- I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable! | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a3e1bb6 | My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you. | poetry | John Berger | |
| 0048061 | I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6b69f1c | And anyway, it's not as though I'll never see Mum again, is it? | harry-potter life-after-death luna-lovegood | J.K. Rowling | |
| 06da7b8 | Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at her. 'Come on, you can do better than that!' he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room. The second jet of light hit him squarely in the chest. The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock. | J K Rowling | ||
| 0a75d11 | Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7c0a3a6 | Everything seems simple until you think about it. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 8ca75f6 | Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book. | Fulton Sheen | ||
| daf4259 | It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life. | life relax relaxation | Paulo Coelho | |
| 400a0e2 | I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 767f69e | You want to know what price I asked for forgiving Arobynn, Celaena?" Sam stood so still the he might have been a statue. "My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that." | forgiveness sam-cortland | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 3323fa2 | The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry. | jewelry pride scars | Sarah J. Maas | |
| bfb4772 | I can wait," he said thickly, kissing her collarbone. "We have all the time in the world." | celaena-sardothien love sam-cortland | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0b9593e | E.E Cummings wrote, "To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight- and never stop fighting." | Brené Brown | ||
| f8cbb04 | Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor. | Beth Moore | ||
| 6b2d2cf | You know, you're rather amusingly wrong. | funny humor humorous irony satire wit witty-quotes | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0ddde93 | The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell"." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8282522 | The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6de6973 | You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it." | claire-danvers driving morganville-vampire morganville-vampire-series morganville-vampires myrnin myrnin-and-claire vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| db0e706 | She wasn't absolutely sure who kissed whom this time. Maybe it was gravity tilting, stars exploding. It felt like it.... She gasped into his open mouth, and he moaned. She had no idea a sensation could go through her like that, traveling through her skin and nerves like lightning.... Okay, this was . Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a goodbye, this was , and wow, she'd never even it could feel this way. | Rachel Caine | ||
| ce1406a | Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?" "Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 937ab96 | Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!" "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome," | Rachel Caine | ||
| b760cb4 | Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| fb4eabf | WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scor.. | companionship friendship life love togetherness | Walt Whitman | |
| ef5cdb4 | She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| ab197ee | You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air." | michael peter-pan tinker-bell wendy | J.M. Barrie | |
| 6b2ef7e | There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. | love woman | Jorge Luis Borges | |
| 8021c98 | Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 8798c6c | Once upon a time, there was Candy and Dan. Things were very hot that year. All the wax was melting in the trees. He would climb balconies, climb everywhere, do anything for her, oh Danny boy. Thousands of birds, the tiniest birds, adorned her hair. Everything was gold. One night the bed caught fire. He was handsome and a very good criminal. We lived on sunlight and chocolate bars. It was the afternoon of extravagant delight. Danny the dared.. | Luke Davies | ||
| bb35b49 | At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. | philosophy sunrise thoughts | Norman Maclean | |
| 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 purpose significance | Rick Warren | |
| 73f380a | And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us. | fellowship togetherness | James Frey | |
| 6f2ef11 | tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it. | little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| f262703 | There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib | Frank Herbert | ||
| d1bf990 | Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| e9ecf5a | When evening in the Shire was grey his footsteps on the Hill were heard; before the dawn he went away on journey long without a word. From Wilderland to Western shore, from northern waste to southern hill, through dragon-lair and hidden door and darkling woods he walked at will. With Dwarf and Hobbit, Elves and Men, with mortal and immortal folk, with bird on bough and beast in den, in their own secret tongues he spoke. A deadly sword, a he.. | gandalf j-r-r-tolkien jrr-tolkien lament lord-of-the-rings the-fellowship-of-the-ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7a9d64d | The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall... | poetry | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0e8263d | For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 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 |