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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | love lovers madness | 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. | mortality photography | 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.. | japanese reiko 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. | kindness learning sadness sincerity sorrow strength truth warning | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 558787c | when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it. | moving-forward stuck | Iyanla Vanzant | |
| c779916 | We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 5fe2c1c | There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 35ff54e | He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9891e7b | The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 238f261 | People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c67ce9b | There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. | opening-lines | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1beffaa | Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes.. | science skepticism | Carl Sagan | |
| 7ebf392 | The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. | mind | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 6e9b339 | And so what? I just killed a demon in my own house, and you're going to be a dickhead about it because I'm not some spoiled-rotten rich brat like you and your sister?" Alec looked astonished. "What did you call me?" | city-of-bones clary-fray | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9204327 | Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew at him and hugged him. Now that was the way sisters were supposed to act, Clary thought. Not all stiff and weird and peculiar, but happy and loving. Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing." .. | isabelle-lightwood simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 93ad605 | Haven't I?" Magnus said, and then smiled at him. "Will, you treat me as a human being, a person like yourself; rare is the Shadowhunter who treats a warlock like that. I am not so heartless that I would call in a favor from a brokenhearted boy. One who I think, by the way, will be a very good man someday. So I will tell you this. I will stay here when you go, and I will watch over your Jem for you, and if he wakes, I will tell him where you.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f7c5f80 | The Queen touched her lips thoughtfully with a single long white finger. 'The Fair Folk, unlike humans, do not concern themselves overmuch with . Love, perhaps, and hate. Both are useful emotions. But . . ." She shrugged elegantly." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 47710a1 | You know Jace Lightwood?" said Emma. "I-- What?" "He's famous," Emma said with obvious amazement. He's the best Shadowhunter. The best." | clary cohf jace shadowhunters the-mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| a594a61 | A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 01fb85e | As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away. | qhuay qhuinn qhuinn-and-blay | J.R. Ward | |
| b599137 | What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool! | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 0a8817f | Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her. | belief fate luck religion | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| c0de2a7 | Positive thoughts lead to positive results. | thoughts | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 649e1fb | He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it. | John Green | ||
| eef2c98 | There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people." | nerds | John Green | |
| fe6f883 | As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to .. | cigarettes life smart smoking | John Green |