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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8021862 | One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world... | Kim Harrison | ||
| ffdf34b | Ivy!' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next? | kisten rachel-morgan romance supernatural vampire | Kim Harrison | |
| ae158b9 | I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. | growing-up growth life moving-forward moving-on self | Roger Zelazny | |
| bd95f1f | To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago." | humor irony shakespeare | Roger Zelazny | |
| 806093b | But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 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 | ||
| 45b4eba | Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 3bd5b18 | Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0589873 | How'd you communicate?" "Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out a way in and he got stressed and apparently that" -- she waved at him--- "is what happens when a werewolf gets stressed. By then, the garage door was open, some staff guy bringing in a car. He took one look at Derek and decided it was time for a new job" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| badf97b | Xavier leaned forward. "Sarcasm aside, you don't need a guy like that, Elena. Maybe you think you do - only female werewolf and all that - but hell, I've seen what you can do - tied to a chair, up against a male werewolf. You can do that, you don't need some fucking psychopath like Clayton Danvers-" He stopped, noticing my gaze. "He's standing right behind me, isn't he?" Xavier muttered. "Uh-huh." Xaview tilted his head back, saw Clay, and .. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| fa4673d | Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| bb4a051 | Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 5b806bb | the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. | past prayer truth | Anne Lamott | |
| 239becb | I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| ef5fe73 | Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice. | love | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 5b4a02e | There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner. | marley-and-me | John Grogan | |
| dd1f5a6 | It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 3f27535 | Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite ch.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8d26765 | If I be waspish, best beware my sting. | wasps wit women | William Shakespeare | |
| a83fec3 | That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As.. | death fall love priceless winter | William Shakespeare | |
| 462b6bd | No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. I didn't bring you up only to move across sure ground. I didn't teach you to think that everything must be within our control or understanding... | science uncertainty | Mark Helprin | |
| dc64a1e | Here's the thing about Cricket Bell. You can't NOT notice him when he walks into a room. The first thing that registers is his height, but it's quickly followed by recognition of his energy. He moves gracefully like his sister, but with an enthusiasm he can't quite control- the constantly moving body, hands, feet. He's been subdued the last few times I've seen him, but he's fully revived now. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| c96ebef | Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it--no. | James Patterson | ||
| 5082178 | There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust. | trust | Daniel Abraham | |
| fba765f | I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| d3701fd | In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. | David Levithan | ||
| 6bb84d5 | You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. | David Levithan | ||
| dbf9b02 | How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 20c48a4 | Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you? | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 7144f0c | He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. | naive | Colum McCann | |
| 6d2c6f3 | It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5310bd4 | The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about--clouds--daffodils--waterfalls--what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in--these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 7748fcf | Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls. | Martin Amis | ||
| eaf8877 | The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. | idolatry idols love-disappointment | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 422a173 | If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come. | George Eliot | ||
| 7ee110e | The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; | Edward Gibbon |