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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | louisa-may-alcott little-women | 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.. | jrr-tolkien the-fellowship-of-the-ring gandalf lament j-r-r-tolkien lord-of-the-rings | 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 | ||
| 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 luna-lovegood life-after-death | 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 relaxation relax | 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." | sam-cortland forgiveness | 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." | love sam-cortland celaena-sardothien | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d909d08 | We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky | Tite Kubo | ||
| a21ecd8 | Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway." Daja: "If you know, you can stop it." Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning." | sandry | Tamora Pierce | |
| 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.. | unhappiness death dreams museum classics | 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. ".. | perspective childhood | 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 7bb9d29 | Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible. | power | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| a8d1424 | You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you. | misery | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b080f39 | The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 37211e6 | From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. | fanaticism | Denis Diderot | |
| 3572515 | A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off. | humor | Victor Hugo | |
| 1c98d42 | Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell. | hell | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 9528123 | as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. | fiction philosophy imaginary symbolic real ideology | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 0922da8 | Voltaire said about God that 'there is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night'. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don't tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night. | Yuval Noah Harari | ||
| c164c11 | A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner--continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you--is a fine art, in and of itself. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 32d1719 | Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.... | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| a93e78e | But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. | Anonymous | ||
| 6684646 | The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress | Sabrina Jeffries | ||
| 051cc1b | In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. | science god truth scripture creation | Anonymous |