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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e4169bd | Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug | Norton Juster | ||
| 94d01a4 | I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! | humor intelligence mathematics statistics | Richard P. Feynman | |
| e1f49e3 | The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it? | god pleasure | L.M. Montgomery | |
| d3dad2b | Even when I'm alone I have real good company -- dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships -- and nice, jolly little times with people. | friendship imaginations l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| a58af0d | You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 137094e | Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived, it was a load smaller, there was only one hammock and just Gryffindor hangings. But it's expanded as more and more of the D.A. have arrived. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ebc0e13 | To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. | mother-s-love power-of-love | J.K. Rowling | |
| 76f8c22 | On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. | painting river | J.K. Rowling | |
| 4827347 | Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 154585b | Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8843716 | The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow. | life | Nicholas Sparks | |
| de2beae | The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 71baf2f | It's easy to be yourself in the dark. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| b544c73 | Babe," Ranger said. "You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?" I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and it's all I can think about." That had been true five minutes ago. Now that Ranger was standng in front of me I was thinking a cupcake wasn't what I actually needed. | ranger romance stephanie | Janet Evanovich | |
| b0f81a7 | You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes." - Jennifer, "Beauty Queens" | Libba Bray | ||
| f3814e0 | Which is worse: Hell or nothing? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 348e212 | HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2e397f8 | I mean, I'm just tired of being wrong all the time just because I'm a guy. I mean how many times can everybody tell you that you're the oppressive, prejudiced enemy before you give up and become the enemy. I mean a male, chauvinist pig isn't born, hes made, and more and more of them are being made by women. After long enough you just roll over and accept the fact that you're a sexist, bigoted, insensitive, crude, cretinist cretin. Women ar.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0fe72fb | Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e756a01 | The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 731a297 | God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 19fac5e | Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. | teaching | Paulo Coelho | |
| 48dee6f | Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 1a99031 | I want to tell you something today, something that I have known for a long while, and you know it too; but perhaps you have never said it to yourself. I am going to tell you now what it is that I know about you and me and our fate. You, Harry, have been an artist and a thinker, a man full of joy and faith, always on the track of what is great and eternal, never content with the trivial and petty. But the more life has awakened you and broug.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 666d47a | The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d4d0136 | Hello, Sam," she breathed onto the river breeze." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 29ecdc4 | He found her beautiful, if a bit strange and sour. It was something in the way that her eyes sparked when she looked at something lovely in the landscape. He couldn't understand it. | dorian-havilliard throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| a6ebb40 | My rage had become a living thing inside my chest, an echoing heartbeat that soothed me to sleep and stirred me to waking. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d2197e4 | I hope they all burn in hell. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 117e1e7 | The world is a globe -- the farther you sail, the closer to home you are. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c0383e0 | Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don't always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don't wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again. | star wish | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1755c92 | The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7503382 | Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 30ec6f8 | It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 807e23f | See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No. Trust me, you shouldn't," Eve said. "Think of all the little old people and the children." | driving morganville-vampire morganville-vampire-series morganville-vampires myrnin myrnin-and-claire vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| ef4375e | I'm not a kid!" she told Shane hotly. "I'm only, like, a year younger than Eve!" "And girls are much more mature." Eve nodded wisely. "So you're about ten years older than Shane, then." "Seriously," Claire insisted. "I'm not a kid!" "Whatever you say, kid," Shane said blandly. "Cheer up. Just means you don't have to put up with me telling you how much sex I didn't get." "I'm telling Michael," Eve warned. "About how much sex I didn't get? Go.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| e169059 | See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!" "Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!" | humor morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 9043949 | Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. To You WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands; Even now, your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you, Your true Soul and Body appear before me, They stand forth out of affairs--out of commerce, shops, law, science, work, f.. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 6e58ee9 | I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 6e71168 | The italian nanny was attempting to answer the teachers latest question when the moroccan student interupted, shouting "Excuse me, What is an easter?" it would seem that depsite having grown up in a muslim country, she would have heard it mentioned once or twice, but no. "I mean it," She said. " I have no idea what you people are talking about." The teacher called upon the rest of us to explain. The poles led the charge to the best of their.. | David Sedaris | ||
| ebf90e8 | We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 35c1d01 | Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister. | fiction hunter supernatural urban-fantasy vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 3514d12 | Se antes de cada acto nosso nos pusessemos a prever todas as consequencias dele, a pensar nelas a serio, primeiro as imediatas, depois as provaveis, depois as possiveis, depois as imaginaveis, nao chegariamos sequer a mover-nos de onde o primeiro pensamento nos tivesse feito parar. | inspirational | José Saramago | |
| e5a6c15 | Come work for me, and I'll tell you." My eyes went to his. "You are a thief, a cheat, a murderer, and a not-nice man," I said calmly. "I don't like you." He shrugged, the motion making him look utterly harmless. "I'm not a thief," he said. "And I don't mind manipulating you into working for me when I need it." He smiled, showing me perfect teeth. "I enjoy it, actually." | humor rachel trent | Kim Harrison |