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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | nature biology | 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 | ||
| 7bd9b8d | There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 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 orders holly | Eoin Colfer | |
| 49e0a56 | Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right. | friendship inspirational holly-short eoin-colfer | 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 | ||
| b349c90 | When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0a91079 | Take me someplace where we can be silent together. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b7d4440 | By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later--again, for its own mysterious reasons. | heart | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 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. | wrong right | 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." | magic-strikes ilona-andrews raphael kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 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 | ||
| b323994 | P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. | lies justification torture | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 64e952f | If I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake? | Graham Greene | ||
| 0c1751b | Can't make an omelette without killing a few people. | killing | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6031674 | I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge. | young | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6d20dd6 | There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4c58bc3 | It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die. | magic life | Neil Gaiman |