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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cf7e35a | What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion. | illusion inspirational magic | Tyler Knott Gregson | |
| e7590f4 | The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7ff3d78 | There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be. | libraries | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3ba9f3a | Nix lay on her side, bending her elbow to casually prop her head in her hand. With a sigh she said, "Bowen, I took you on as my pet project because I like to ogle you. Due to your rowr factor." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 07012be | The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. | living poetry transience words | Virginia Woolf | |
| a1d8465 | I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories? | Virginia Woolf | ||
| c8437e2 | A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 29438c5 | In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seem.. | war writing | Tim O'Brien | |
| c576142 | Dreams are manifestations of identities. | identity | Kathy Acker | |
| 6d6de67 | In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple. | biology nature | Richard Preston | |
| f5ac67e | it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. | infinity | Norton Juster | |
| 7bdd973 | When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. | James Gleick | ||
| 75ebc01 | There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| bb7265b | It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term "feminism," to focus on the fact that to be "feminist" in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppres.. | bell hooks | ||
| 03f3e4f | The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is. | love | James Hilton | |
| a77cc2f | How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads? | philosophy | Plato | |
| eb164f2 | Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good... | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 630be6f | Merlin's pants! | humorous | J.K. Rowling | |
| 912b6ff | There you go, Harry!" Ron shouted over the noise. "You weren't being thick after all -- you were showing moral fiber!" | humor ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1a621c9 | Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see." | rats remus-lupin | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9b6e327 | Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c8782d6 | You're a lunatic. You ran me over with a goddamn Buick. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 5eee8c7 | Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8894645 | A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. | students teacher teaching | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 52f9db9 | If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8097962 | Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day. | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| 91d4deb | A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all-knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 4c5bd6f | But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyz.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 88b1099 | If only you'd remember before ever you sit down to write that you've been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart's choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 7d5cdf0 | I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 8bcea09 | It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul. | soul tragedies | Thomas Moore | |
| 1adfb67 | What do you care?" I barked, and his grip tightened enough on my wrists that I knew my bones would snap with a little more pressure. "What do I care?" he breathed, wrath twisting his features. Wings - those membranous, glorious wings - flared from his back, crafted from the shadows behind him. "What do I care?" But before he could go on, his head snapped to the door, then back to my face. The wings vanished as quickly as they had appeared, .. | amarantha feyre kiss rhys rhysand tamlin | Sarah J. Maas | |
| c7cb44e | Why bother? Maybe the world's not worth saving." She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes." | heir-of-fire the-world | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6fa765a | Love--love was a balm as much as it was a poison. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e9a5b10 | What is it like? Manon asked quietly. 'To love.' 'It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me.'"-Asterin/Manon" | manon | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d7e0fa2 | You do not fear. You do not falter. You do not yield. You go in, you get her, and you come out again. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e1b4b25 | He moved to sniff some white-and-yellow flowers. A nightmare. This was a nightmare. "You can't really like flowers." Again those dark eyes shifted to her. Blinked once. I most certainly do, he seemed to say." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b35c393 | They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they want to. This book is dedicated to those fine men. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 92c8ce4 | I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?" "I started living with you guys." "Oh, right." | Rachel Caine | ||
| dcf12a5 | The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 6912bef | I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| cf645d8 | Evil will win if good people do nothing. | real-talk | P.C. Cast | |
| a62c33b | We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| a9e688a | I know there isn't no beast--not with claws and all that, I mean--but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless--" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people." | William Golding |