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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f6a77fb | It's offense you maybe can't live with because it opens up a crack inside your thinking, and if you look down into it you see there are evil things down there, and they have little yellow eyes that don't blink, and there's a stink down there in that dark and after a while you think maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and som.. | Stephen King | ||
| ea5f19a | We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. | Stephen King | ||
| 703761a | Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There's no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8cab3fb | Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree. | tree speak young-adult-fiction | laurie halse anderson | |
| 9806193 | Each day has a color, a smell. | color calendar odor day smell | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 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 statistics mathematics | 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 | |
| d82d954 | In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilty for another's sin. There is no isolated sin. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 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. | love-disappointment idols idolatry | 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 | ||
| 09467f5 | This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up.. | spiritual | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 95e3d59 | Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby | pygmalion george-bernard-shaw | George Bernard Shaw | |
| a6f1724 | Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. | inspirational guests hospitality generosity strangers | Anonymous | |
| 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 | ||
| 4be26c4 | Kiss the fattest part of my ass | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 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. | wish star | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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." | morganville-vampire morganville-vampire-series myrnin-and-claire myrnin morganville-vampires driving 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 | |
| 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 vampire supernatural urban-fantasy | 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 trent rachel | Kim Harrison | |
| 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? | romance kisten rachel-morgan vampire supernatural | Kim Harrison | |
| 90f8cfc | Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock. | christianity | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 37c6cff | I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you. | Graham Greene |