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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1228aed | In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting. | John Green | ||
| a547cac | No headboards were broken. | humor twilight | John Green | |
| 9221e44 | Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus... | John Green | ||
| d3cf3f4 | What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in." | family sadness hazel | John Green | |
| 81f7860 | Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes. | John Green | ||
| 41d282c | A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' and I was like, 'I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now,' and Gus said, 'This is wonderful news you want to hear,' and I asked him, 'Fine, what is it?' and he said, 'You are going to live a good long life filled with great and terrible mome.. | tfios the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 2e2c93a | She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness. | John Green | ||
| e6c1f42 | I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews. | love reason-to-breathe emma-thomas evan-mathews rebecca-donovan sweet | Rebecca Donovan | |
| 07db610 | All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| bffce45 | They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. | wisdom priorities wealth-and-virtues modern-values truths values | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| d5a8f32 | We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. | opression | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 0f51d29 | But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that." | salacious-talk | Charlaine Harris | |
| 16c0f83 | Do you know what a balance wheel is?" She shook her head slightly. "There's one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It's what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn't work. You're my balance wheel, Poppy." -Harry Rutledge" | love soulmates | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 4523d16 | You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else. | John Irving | ||
| 91ca108 | I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT." "I learned it from you," I told him. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT." | John Irving | ||
| 9780fe2 | Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses my cheek. "I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave." | Veronica Roth | ||
| a2f136c | I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 84d97d0 | Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke." Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?" "Not particularly." "Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 05e2e68 | When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course.. | religion beatification canonisation deacons devil-s-advocate fanatacism monsignors mother-teresa pope pope-john-paul-ii priests pro-bono satan testimony sainthood vatican devil | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 87efbc7 | Jon Snow, is this a proper castle now? Not just a tower?" "It is." Jon took her hand. "Good," she whispered. "I wanted t' see one proper castle, before ... before I ..." "You'll see hundred castles. The battle's done. Maester Aemon will see to you. You're kissed by fire, remember? Lucky. It will take more than an arrow to kill you. Aemon will draw it out and patch you up, and we'll get milk of the poppy for the pain." She just smiled at tha.. | ygritte sad | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5837eef | Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 44f587b | Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 4f4fd2e | Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f881d75 | If ice can burn," said Jojen in his solemn voice, "then love and hate can mate. Mountain or marsh, it makes no matter. The land is one." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 15173a0 | But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things. | Agatha Christie | ||
| fdeeb04 | It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 1c7c5f8 | I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| b18033f | For example, highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. They arrange their lives in ways that limit surprises. They're often sensitive to sights, sounds, smells, pain, coffee. They have difficulty when being observed (at work, say, or performing at a music recital) or judged for general worthiness (dating, job interviews). But there are new insights. The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritua.. | Susan Cain | ||
| ac99060 | I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 1ebaca7 | We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| ec00f5d | I don't believe in faeries! | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 23b8546 | Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty. | crippled flaws | Holly Black | |
| 8fbd652 | Simply to endure is to triumph. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 97710bb | Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. | courage inspirational tyranny | C.J. Redwine | |
| 5f9383d | REMEMBER YOUR GREATNES | existence giant living-achievement loss struggles suffering suzy-kassem poem courage poetry human achieve beauty confidence strength success life wisdom inspirational winners born great affirmation eye loser egg sperm winner big attitude survivor winning obstacles small competition odds greatness successful birth pains race warrior victory losing fears win | Suzy Kassem | |
| 72b9bac | I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew. | self-awareness inspirational esteem life-experience self-esteem | W.H. Auden | |
| e087aad | I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. | kindness inspirational | Mother Teresa | |
| 1f72c3a | Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead | heartbreak inspirational true-to-life | Pete Wentz | |
| 6a78d80 | I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing. | Donald Miller | ||
| 8fa397c | There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 270f8ba | We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 63895ad | The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 63dd8da | At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3d333db | When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. | knowledge | Orson Scott Card |