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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6151335 | The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 5ae2954 | In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. KNOWING A MAN WELL NEVER LEADS TO HATE and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER! | John Steinbeck | ||
| 641e209 | The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2007190 | I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mex.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 208440d | LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as bi.. | bleak-house classic-literature courts dickens fall fog justice-system london november | Charles Dickens | |
| ebb9819 | If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together! | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8ad9c7f | Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth. | madness sofa | Douglas Adams | |
| 98549f5 | I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8e1f6c3 | if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?. | life salem-falls | Jodi Picoult | |
| 0b2d5a6 | It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 410f585 | There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it." | grief loss | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| dbe9235 | I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a116c4f | I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's be.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| dd3e908 | When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that .. | playwriting sam-shepard | Patti Smith | |
| 7c99dda | A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead. | impermanence time | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 9946b9d | I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e55b249 | The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT! | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ea5cd0a | It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 9f46208 | I want to live life on my own terms. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| b8572d5 | The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 7187cf0 | Summer's lease hath all too short a date. | summer | William Shakespeare | |
| 07945e0 | Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6344ec1 | I told him your loins were clearly burning, and he should man up and make a move." "You did not!" "I did. And if he doesn't, then I suggest you jump bones." ... I finally register what he's wearing. It's a handsome skinny black suit with a shiny sheen. The pants are too short - on purpose, of course - exposing his usual pointy shoes and a pair of blue socks that match my dress And I totally want to jump him." | lust | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 205112d | They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! | france paris | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 872361e | I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...] | inspirational life love | Stephanie Perkins | |
| d1cc2a2 | A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| c291f17 | We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 0f60e6d | You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway. | David Levithan | ||
| 777c3e1 | There is always something new to learn about the person you love. | David Levithan | ||
| 381289c | So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same. | David Levithan | ||
| 042a5fd | this might be the happy ending without the ending | David Levithan | ||
| a57fb23 | and love was lightning and remembrance | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 555e0b0 | Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house? | Watterson Bill | ||
| da31392 | Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. | right wrong | David Mitchell | |
| 84dbbc5 | Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5aa8a24 | Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6bede37 | The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us. | poverty | John Perkins | |
| 447f93a | Andrea: "....I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle." Kate: "He isn't a poodle. He's a Doberman mix." Andrea: "Aha. Keep telling yourself that." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5e03c73 | If the lot of you survives, Curran will flay the skin off your backs," Doolittle said. "That's what I always love about you, Doctor." Raphael grinned. "You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine." | ilona-andrews kate-daniels magic-strikes raphael | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8f61357 | Butler snapped his fingers. "Focus, Artemis! Time enough for your Atlantis Complex later. We have the Atlantis outside that door and six miles of water above it. If you want to stay alive, you need to stay alert." He turned to Holly. "This is ridiculous. I'm pulling the plug." Holly's mouth was a tight line as she shook her head. "Navy rules, Butler. You're on my boat, you follow my orders." "As I remember, I brought the boat." "Yes, than.. | boat butler holly orders | Eoin Colfer | |
| 49e0a56 | Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right. | eoin-colfer friendship holly-short inspirational | Eoin Colfer | |
| 8cccc47 | There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 14c40b4 | My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler" | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 526d158 | The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. | Jon Krakauer |