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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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.. | evolution profound science beneficence omnipotent biology tolerance design evidence misery isaac-newton newton | 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 | |
| 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. | irony humorous funny humor witty-quotes satire wit | 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 | ||
| 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.. | friendship life love togetherness companionship | Walt Whitman | |
| 6de6973 | You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it." | morganville-vampire morganville-vampire-series myrnin-and-claire myrnin claire-danvers morganville-vampires driving 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 | ||
| 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 tinker-bell wendy peter-pan | J.M. Barrie | |
| 6b2ef7e | There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. | woman love | 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. | thoughts philosophy sunrise | Norman Maclean | |
| 558787c | when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it. | stuck moving-forward | 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." | cohf clary the-mortal-instruments jace shadowhunters | 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-and-blay qhuinn | 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. | fate religion belief luck | 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 .. | life cigarettes smart smoking | John Green |