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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d35ca49 | I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. | Stephen King | ||
| 622fcb4 | A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. | Stephen King | ||
| bcea1d1 | God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| a271ea7 | We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stan.. | William Gibson | ||
| 71a69b2 | The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all, what laws can be laid down about .. | freedom library literature reading words | Virginia Woolf | |
| 7bb9fdc | the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. | fate self-discovery understanding | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 04186b2 | Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home. | life present sleep waking-up | Christopher Isherwood | |
| e71909a | Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme. Is it right that yo.. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| d0c4efb | God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3367966 | Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep. | life | E.M. Forster | |
| ee6ed72 | Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4489c18 | Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to -- er -- 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you. | warning | J.K. Rowling | |
| c2d0c1c | Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cd82856 | Well. Hello. Yeh must be Harry. Hello, Harry Potter. I'm Rubeus Hagrid. And I'm gonna be yer friend whether yeh like it or not. 'Cos yeh've had it tough, not that yeh know it yet. An' yer gonna need friends. Now yeh best come with me, don't yeh think? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 774f220 | How's Norbert doin'?" Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now." Wha--Norbert's a girl?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6f48767 | I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman." -Ranger to Stephanie" | romance | Janet Evanovich | |
| 1c8bedb | We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3618d3c | Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 964afe0 | HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. They know so little about what it's like to fill a new prescription for glasses and suddenly see the world again, with a mixture of disappointment and gratitude ... Also, they don't dream. For this reason, they have one less thing to talk about. In a backward way, when they wake up they feel as if there is something they are forgetting to tell e.. | dreams sadness | Nicole Krauss | |
| e32243c | everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| a3958e2 | When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 94038e8 | Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fb4b741 | Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 5d6ff12 | And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content. | dragons reminiscence sunset | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| bd06add | I heard you scream," he said as he examined the blade in my hands. I'd never held one so finely crafted, so perfectly balanced. "And I hesitated. Not long, but I hesitated before I came running. Even though Tam got there in time, I still broke my word in those seconds I waited." He jerked his chin at the knife. "It's yours. Don't bury it in my back, please." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6ae4384 | Aelin hissed, "Need I remind you Captain, that you went to Endovier and did not blink at the slaves and the mass graves? Need I remind you that I was starved and chained and you let Duke Perrington force me to the ground at Dorian's feet while you did nothing? And now you have the nerve to accuse me of not caring, when many of the people in this city have profited off the blood and misery of the very people you ignored?" | betrayal celeana-sardothien chaol-westfall queen-of-shadows throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 5abd10d | He grasped her by the wrist , running a thumb along the sensitive skin underneath. "Then let me call you Mine for a dance or two" She grinned but someone was suddenly between them, a tall, powerfully built person. Sam. He ripped the stranger's hand off of her wrist. "She's spoken for," he growled, all too close to the young man's maked face. The stranger's friend was behind him in an instant, his bronze eyes fixed on Sam. Celaena grabbed Sa.. | celaena-sardothien chaol-westfall dance dorian-havilliard enouth gods-above sam-cortland spoken-for | Sarah J. Maas | |
| be7325e | Power called to power among the Fae. Perhaps Aelin Galathynius was unlucky the cadre had been drawn to Maeve's power long before she was born, had chained themselves to her instead. Perhaps they were the unlucky ones, for not holding out for something better. | lorcan-salvatarre | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 7cdb345 | Get up. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 89688c9 | There were few sounds she enjoyed more than the groans of dying men, but the wind was one of them. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 820b3ce | From tears to sass in a few minutes. I'm glad the month apart hasn't dimmed your usual good spirits. | queen-of-shaows rowan-whitethorn throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6f313fc | The king picked up his goblet, swirling the wine inside. 'I didn't receive word that your legion was here.' "They're not." Chaol braced for the execution order, praying he wouldn't be the one to do it. The king said, "I told you to bring them, General." "Here, I was thinking you wanted the plesure of my company." | aedion-ashryver general-aedion insolence king-of-adarlan lol sassiness sassy wolf | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 42808c7 | The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home. | memories travelling | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4330736 | In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? | humor medicine money | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0692aa1 | no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e017df0 | Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 3a1fe7a | Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile. | philosophy | William James | |
| 31fa044 | So nerds rule. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 3fd6dce | Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. | reason religion science skeptic | Sam Harris | |
| d242bd2 | Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. | facts knowledge science scientific-method truth | Jules Verne | |
| 3fe3fed | We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do. | P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast | ||
| 2724efc | What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone. | the-lovely-bones | Alice Sebold | |
| e4fec8c | No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. | speech | Ayn Rand | |
| 927ab32 | Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. | Ayn Rand |