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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 37cf7a4 | And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: she felt empty. She felt the unscaleable wall surrounding her. I thought of her asleep on the carpet with only that jagged sliver of sky above her. Maybe Margo felt comfortable there because Margo the person lived like that all the time: in an abandoned room with blocked-out windows, the only light pouring in through holes in the roof. Yes. Th.. | John Green | ||
| 89ba0df | Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. | kinky suggestive | Terry Pratchett | |
| f6d592e | Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. | inspirational perfectionism personality potential self-improvement | William Faulkner | |
| 95df17f | You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful. | humor romance sookie-stackhouse true-blood | Charlaine Harris | |
| 7cca878 | It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. | inspirational spiritual truth | Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj | |
| 9ea881b | You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 7ad1419 | In the face of pain there are no heroes. | George Orwell | ||
| 790a068 | What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. | poverty youth | Charles Bukowski | |
| 5a069a0 | We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness -- and call it love -- true love. | misattributed-dr-seuss weirdness | Robert Fulghum | |
| 4037b95 | If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. | George Orwell | ||
| ec8cad3 | The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. | flying | Michael Cunningham | |
| 413e021 | Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 90c1338 | No one was my master-- but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. | acomaf feyre | Sarah J. Maas | |
| aae2555 | Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c62e207 | He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8ce0bee | So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all." | humor science | Douglas Adams | |
| 7aa08de | Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 5e91e0c | The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return." | nostalgia vocabulary | Milan Kundera | |
| 8e2eec7 | You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. | past pleasure remembrance | Jane Austen | |
| e632c6d | I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. | Jane Austen | ||
| 5eefe93 | Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. | hat pratchett sky terry | Terry Pratchett | |
| 76342fb | This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. | writing | David Levithan | |
| b5ee26f | I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it. | Emily Brontë | ||
| 6d2d139 | Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yours.. | wildness | Truman Capote | |
| c4ee86d | After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." | inspirational pearls pleasures simple | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 239cdc0 | There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 24c4183 | I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 366daf8 | Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8b7f5cf | Life's as kind as you let it be. | truth | Charles Bukowski | |
| 3794cf0 | My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8b66be4 | If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault. | inaction just-do-it success team | Orson Scott Card | |
| d799c39 | I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him. | Emily Brontë | ||
| a35fac0 | I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9d21865 | There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. | letting-go love loving separating separation | Kate DiCamillo | |
| edfb05c | I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 779cf4f | Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin.. | grief | Dean Koontz | |
| 9212005 | So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone. | literature reading words | Roald Dahl | |
| 2a98819 | There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point... The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. | existentialism follow-your-bliss self-actualization self-determination | Richard Dawkins | |
| c856ba5 | You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. | comedy dark euphemism label manipulation | J.R. Ward | |
| 187d646 | Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. | Norton Juster | ||
| 6790391 | I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. | inspirational inspirational-quotes life science cloud-atlas | David Mitchell | |
| 2f3fb43 | For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones. | tris | Veronica Roth | |
| 6920ad3 | I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle. | objectivism philosophy taggart | Ayn Rand | |
| 96ee51f | That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy." | C.S. Lewis |