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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | twilight-saga young-adult | 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 regret value | 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. | celebrate sing women | 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!" | identity loneliness | 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 | ||
| 9d55dbb | When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 5d332f2 | But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that t.. | beneficence biology design evidence evolution isaac-newton misery newton omnipotent profound science tolerance | Charles Darwin | |
| f86f0b3 | it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating. | David Levithan | ||
| 107e636 | Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading." This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date. I guess I was just giving you a warning. "Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex"." | sex | David Levithan | |
| 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 ideology imaginary philosophy real symbolic | 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. | creation god science scripture truth | Anonymous | |
| a1658fc | The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent. | Robert Greene | ||
| fad3a95 | I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it. | Donald Miller | ||
| 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. | god mark-of-the-lion-series religion spirituality voice-in-the-wind | Francine Rivers | |
| 82b3320 | We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams. | science-fiction | Orson Scott Card | |
| 72d8560 | You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 2c7dd3f | Besides, I've been feeling a little blue -- just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 681cb8a | When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 56d7890 | I heard him whisper, "Eiste panta mou..." " | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6ed72d4 | A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)" | Darren Shan | ||
| 9b73776 | Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense." -- | eros heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace love nico-di-angelo percy-jackson revelation rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 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 |