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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b99cfd | Where are the people?" resumed the little prince at last. "It's a little lonely in the desert..." "It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 681adb2 | That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| e403f96 | There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. | inspirational faith | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 7001d7f | Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 7c48e16 | You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you wil not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life - whatever length - happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want .. | tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5f34825 | I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. | communication inspirational philosophy | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| f577747 | Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done. | marriage romance | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 6ebe160 | When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. | unconditional-love | Mitch Albom | |
| f3587c0 | All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired. | inspiration | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 6b6515e | Heaven would never be heaven without you. | love | Richard Matheson | |
| 8a3d2a7 | For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. | finding the-faerie-queene | Edmund Spenser | |
| 9c3b4bb | No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. | explanations patience storytelling | Lewis Carroll | |
| 946c088 | Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today. | advice-for-daily-living aspirations carpe-diem inspirational | James Dean | |
| cde669d | All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. | intelligence reflection thinking walking | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 5149fde | Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around." | humor | Christopher Paolini | |
| 000c263 | We'll never be as young as we are tonight. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e40f670 | Who says life is fair, where is that written? | life unfair | William Goldman | |
| 970159d | Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. | Walter Scott | ||
| d8a66e2 | We shouldn't," protested Isabelle. "The Clave has a plan." "The Clave has the collective intelligence of a pineapple," said Jace. Alec blinked up at them. "Jace is right." Isabelle turned on her brother. "What do you know? You weren't even paying attention." "I was," Alec said, injured. "I said Jace was right." "Yeah, but there's like a 90% chance of me being right most of the time, so that's not proof you were listening," said Jace. "That'.. | isabelle-lightwood jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 52995c8 | You have been the last dream of my soul. | Charles Dickens | ||
| ab281f3 | A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. | bookstore discworld read reading | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3392b53 | The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. | epigram tabloid-journalism wisdom | Oscar Wilde | |
| 916738a | It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. | drinking sobriety | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| fc75578 | Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk -- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 648f49d | Just be yourself, there is no one better. | be-yourself inspirational | Taylor Swift | |
| 8668b83 | The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, an.. | economics | Terry Pratchett | |
| 27716a8 | Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. | inspirational | Rumi | |
| 05f4705 | I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6b183d7 | Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if oyu planned on fallin gin love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b5cbf45 | There is no sin except stupidity. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 3affb4e | People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to. | John Green | ||
| a91766e | Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c81e817 | I was supposed to be having the time of my life. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 9e03bb3 | If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." -- | fight | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 2c24188 | You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff. | P.C. Cast | ||
| a34cb18 | Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?" "Not really," said Simon. "Magnus is wearing lederhosen." "And yet, still no." | jace-lightwood lederhosen simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 129715b | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And too often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd; By thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owes.. | shakespeare youth | William Shakespeare | |
| a2135b0 | My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? | justice | C.S. Lewis | |
| 7f9e6a5 | I now walk into the wild. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a25cc38 | How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. | life opportunity | Paulo Coelho | |
| d85c175 | Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. | poetry woman | Virginia Woolf | |
| 9c554aa | If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance. | inspirational | Iris Johansen | |
| 5ba6e24 | We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. | inspirational life living-now mistakes motivational regret self-empowerment struggles | Steve Maraboli | |
| ed0cf42 | We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. | T.S. Eliot |