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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6ecda72 | Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want. | Lisa See | ||
| 7d23552 | She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain | reading | Louisa May Alcott | |
| b4c2007 | It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. | Charles Dickens | ||
| d941920 | If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8c39273 | In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.' | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 9d2d32c | The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147 | Dan Millman | ||
| 41183f4 | The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9e8ed2c | Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you. | heartbroken | Jodi Picoult | |
| d6f97ae | Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 00020c1 | I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 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. | power-of-love mother-s-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. | river painting | 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. | romance stephanie ranger | 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. | throne-of-glass dorian-havilliard | 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 | ||
| ae158b9 | I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. | moving-on life moving-forward growing-up growth self | Roger Zelazny | |
| bd95f1f | To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago." | irony shakespeare humor | Roger Zelazny | |
| 96ccb47 | Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not. | mourning death | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 7748636 | Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| fa2e64a | I don't have the time or patience for games. Now, tell me, why do you...glow ?" "I touched a radioactive alien cock once." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8d04872 | When the warden appeared outside their cell, he ogled Regin's bared midriff. Gross. Whenever men leered at her, Regin tended to leer back. She canted her head on the floor, turning it one way, then the other. "I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do." | regin-the-radiant valkyrie immortals-after-dark | Kresley Cole | |
| 94c8a3d | Nix and Lothaire: When the collar dropped to the ground, Lothaire rolled his head on his neck. But instead of disappearing immediately, he traced to stand mere feet from Nix. A towering vampire with skin like marble and chillingly flawless features was staring down a petite Valkyrie with crazed eyes and a cryptic smile. The tension between the two was palpable. Even on the verge of flipping the fuck out, Regin couldn't look away. "The Acces.. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0c4fa30 | If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them." | challenged-books freedom-of-speech censorship | Stephen King | |
| 982942b | The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. | Stephen King |