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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f859924 | As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| e124e08 | Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| ca1e181 | What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one .. | Philip Pullman | ||
| c572a68 | Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute. | magic-strikes | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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? | money humor medicine | 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. | science truth scientific-method facts knowledge | 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 | ||
| cb306ca | No one is ever holy without suffering. | suffering | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 77f489b | The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 9ed22e7 | No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. | life ordinary | H. P. Lovecraft | |
| 1e366fe | For you know only a heap of broken images | T.S. Eliot | ||
| a662cb8 | To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 9c698a0 | No, I couldn't," Alec said. "I hate it when straight guys think all gay guys are attracted to them. I'm not attracted to every guy any more than you're attracted to every girl." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9ff522c | You love each other - anyone can see that, looking at you - that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ad63482 | Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.' 'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star. | relationship rock-star simon-lewis girls dating | Cassandra Clare | |
| 57f6879 | Simon?" "Yeah?" "Can you tell me a story?" He blinked. "What kind of story?" "Something where the good guys win and the bad guys lose. A nd stay dead." "So, like a fairy tale?" he said. He racked his brain. He knew only the Disney versions of fairy tales, and the first knew only the Disney versions of fairy tales, and the first image that came to mind was A riel in her seashell bra. He'd had a crush on her when he was eight. Not that this s.. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 951afdd | We're late," she said, "The show is supposed to start in ten minutes. If some people hadn't decided that 'semiformal' meant 'seminaked'-" "Why are you calling me 'some people'?" Mark inquired. "I am only one person." | mark-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 38fd4be | We are one now, little brother, you and I," Sebastian said. "We are one." | cliffhanger jonathon-morgenstern meanest-ending-in-history sebastian-verlac jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| a722e50 | Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire. | page-507 page-508 clockwork-princess parabatai jem-carstairs will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| d6a68b3 | We shall throw him out onto the streets, I promise you he'll be gone by morning. Oh-no, you can't mean that- Of course I don't. But you felt better for a moment there, didn't you? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| be52bb4 | If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0c4c35e | Demon pox," said Sophie. "Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months if he doesn't get the cure. And Mortmain said he can get it for him." The room exploded in a hubbub. Charlotte raced over to Sophie; Henry called after her; Will leaped from his chair and was dancing in a circle." | henry william the-infernal-devices clockwork-prince sophie | Cassandra Clare | |
| 793b390 | Will and Tessa were in the carriage now, and their driver was snapping the reins. 'Do you think there's a chance for him?' 'A chance for who?' 'Will Herondale. To be happy.' Woolsey sighed gustily and put down his glass. 'Is there a chance for you to be happy if he isn't?' Magnus said nothing. 'Are you in love with him?' Woolsey asked--all curiosity, no jealousy. Magnus wondered what it was like to have a heart like that, or rather to have .. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 749e019 | Tell me," Isabelle said."Who it was. That my father had the affair with." | city-of-lost-souls isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| efc4624 | He made it very clear that he didn't want me here," she said at last. "That my remaining at the Institute is not the happy chance I thought it was. Not in his view." "And after I just finished telling you why you should consider him family," Jem said, a bit ruefully. "No wonder you looked as if I'd just told you something awful just happened." "I'm sorry," Tessa whispered. "Don't be. It's Will who ought to be sorry." Jem's eyes darkened... | friends jem-carstairs rejection | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0a6302f | Will. It doesn't --" "Nothing matters more!" His voice grew in strength. "I that if you hate me it is because I forced you to. I that you have no reason to give me a second chance to be regarded by you in a different light. But I am begging you for that chance. I will do anything. ." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a61de06 | Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9a36593 | If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. | vote democracy | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 3e5446f | I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| b3e85b7 | Call me," she whispered to him with a confidence that would fade as the days passed. Qhuinn smiled a little. "Take care." At the sound of the two words, Blay relaxed, his big shoulders easing up. In Qhuinn-landia, "Take care" was synonymous with "I'm never going to see, call or fuck you again." | qhuinn john | J.R. Ward | |
| ff1bfea | The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all th.. | time perception | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| a104a2c | After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring. | relationships romance love | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 6f3e7da | Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation | inspirational-attitude inspirational-quotes | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 3e1120a | The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us. | John Green | ||
| cd7f5e1 | He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace... | humor hazel-grace | John Green | |
| b6d8e40 | Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. | John Green | ||
| e1d3bc9 | Cuando los adultos dicen: "Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles", con esa sonrisa manosa y estupida en sus rostros, no saben cuan en lo correcto estan. Necesitamos no perder nunca la esperanza, porque nunca nos podemos romper de manera irreparable. Pensamos que somos invencibles porque los somos. No podemos nacer y no podemos morir. Como toda la energia, solo podemos cambiar formas, tamanos y manifestaciones. Ellos olvidan eso al en.. | frases john-green | John Green | |
| 67d5002 | There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between frien.. | friendship love unrequited risk-taking forever | John Green |