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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 throne-of-glass rowan-whitethorn | 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." | general-aedion aedion-ashryver king-of-adarlan insolence sassiness sassy wolf lol | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 4d94707 | Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| fb1f9d8 | Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action." | advantage warrior luck | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 877260f | It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 4d47558 | Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we? | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7b767a5 | I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody. | temeraire snark | Naomi Novik | |
| d146b36 | Money doesn't talk, it swears. | Bob Dylan | ||
| 3de83aa | If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be. | kindness | Stephen King | |
| 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 .. | words library literature reading freedom | 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. | understanding fate self-discovery | 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. | present sleep life 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 | ||
| df9e632 | There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. One must change physically or die. The feeling is clear and indisputable. As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes, this is true. God, when he was creating the world, said at the end of each day o.. | harmony | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 7751ad3 | Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8df6753 | And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy. | tragedy platonic-love platonic | Leo Tolstoy | |
| e46452b | In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 216d124 | I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 1ad1cf7 | What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory farm in which pigs are half-blind and cannot even properly walk, but are just fattened to be killed? And what about, say, torture and suffering of millions we know about, but choose to ignore? Imagine the effect of having to watch a snuff movie portraying what goes on thousands of times a day around the world.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 060c2ac | I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself. | do-something waiting | Markus Zusak | |
| 1edd539 | Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave. | time | Markus Zusak | |
| f3bc003 | He had the vanity to believe men did not like him - while men simply did not know him. | vanity | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 65c622b | There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil. | Dorothy Parker | ||
| ee23182 | The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 2a5fb06 | And whoever is patient and forgiving, these most surely are actions due to courage. | Anonymous | ||
| ebdc978 | Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. | worship inspiration religion god hope life love truth verse reverence thankful kingdom | Anonymous | |
| ef712c4 | An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings. | Robert Greene | ||
| 39e5f20 | And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS." -- | William Goldman | ||
| 1110e3d | Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes. Though I had my driver's license, I bought a cheap secondhand bicycle so I could ride with her. Sometimes she led the way, sometimes I did. Whenever we could, we rode side by side. She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day. She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone .. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| d41f675 | in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 187d4c4 | In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| b5b4f70 | There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em. | Harper Lee | ||
| 81f24b0 | The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ef3759e | She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task. | David Levithan | ||
| ee5a8a0 | I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me. | David Levithan | ||
| 3e2a8cd | Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6e21cf9 | I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 858a68d | What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. | reality truth observation | Michael Connelly | |
| 007a914 | You can present the material, but you can't make me care. | education student-accountability | Bill Watterson |