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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ae35051 | Chances are where you find them | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 307294f | DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3e02803 | It is too often the quality of happiness that you feel at every moment its fragility, while depression seems when you are in it to be a state that will never pass. Even if you accept that moods change, that whatever you feel today will be different tomorrow, you cannot relax into happiness like you can into sadness. For me, sadness has always been and still is a more powerful feeling; and if that is not a universal experience, perhaps it is.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| d90cb2f | What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 8f0a86e | There's always world enough and time. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 4137e12 | The hardest lesson is Clare's solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I've interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare's face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I've discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieve.. | marriage | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| d0199eb | Well maybe we need to Cesar Millan their asses and show them who's boss. Tsst, tsst! | Kresley Cole | ||
| 07fe4ec | When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really home, that in bed with you was home, and something that had been getting close in the dark was suddenly gone. It could not stay. It had been banished. It knew how to come back, I was sure of that, but it could not stay and I could really go to sleep. My heart cracked with gratitude. I think it .. | love | Stephen King | |
| 9070176 | Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. | Stephen King | ||
| 6cff7a9 | Long days and pleasant nights. | Stephen King | ||
| aeb3f95 | What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| fd06ae1 | I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? | life love people | Roald Dahl | |
| 4d48ad3 | It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 8e3e801 | Books do furnish a room. | furnishing furniture | Anthony Powell | |
| 86a5a67 | Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it." -- | James Baldwin | ||
| 669d3c4 | Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. | Cornel West | ||
| 29024cb | The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3c33708 | Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 89f302c | It was his own grief turned magically to song. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| be65cca | Don't count your owls before they are delivered. | dumbledore humor inspirational | J.K. Rowling | |
| 210dac8 | So," sneered Fudge, recovering himself, "you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?" "Merlin's beard, no," said Dumbledore, smiling. "Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to." "He will not be single-handed!" said Professor McGonagall loudly, plunging her hand inside her robes. "Oh yes he will, Minerva!" said Dumbledore sharply. "Hogwarts needs you!" -- | fudge funny mcgonagall third-person | J.K. Rowling | |
| 4081359 | He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric's Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when.. | j-k-rowling love | J.K. Rowling | |
| 6103b9f | And because there is something they can't see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can't see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they're scared. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 43164be | Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic." | Libba Bray | ||
| 84e6375 | I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons. | Libba Bray | ||
| 66430b5 | Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f65625e | How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? | environment inspirational planet | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0564cd1 | Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| a8a0fcc | When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny. Perhaps there's something wrong with me, I don't know, perhaps my marriage was a dream I couldn't understand while it lasted. All I know is that even though I can live without her, I would still like to see her again, to say what I ne.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e3e8bd3 | Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 4322956 | The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c32af6d | Perhaps the world would never be perfect, perhaps some things would never be right, but maybe she stood a chance of finding her own sort of peace and freedom. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7542251 | This witch had been crafted from the darkness between the stars. | love magic manon-blackbeak queen-of-shadows romantic stars witch | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 7b60f99 | Hey, if you don't want to tell me, don't. But I can tell when you lie." Ok, that was creepy. "You can?" He smiled grimly down at the dirty dishwater. "Nope. But see? You fell for it anyway. Careful, or I'll read your mind with my incredible vampire superpowers." | michael-glass | Rachel Caine | |
| 662e6b5 | They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark")." | love | Miranda July | |
| 36d5cba | Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 4ba0f69 | I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. | writers | William Saroyan | |
| 6ea65b3 | All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good. | humor | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 501a874 | He squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me. I realized that I hadn't kissed him hello, I always kissed him hello. Of course, I was still covered in blood and other bodily fluids, and none of them were his, but he might not understand that that was why I hadn't wanted to get too close. Some of my confusion must have shown on my face, because his smile widened. He turned me around by the shoulders, gave me a little push towards the bathroom, an.. | gregory micah vampires | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 62d2690 | When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f66ccf9 | Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are. | Richard Bach | ||
| dff741f | Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call. | P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast | ||
| 66047f9 | that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| cbe0038 | The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know. | knowledge mistake nature science | Robert M. Pirsig |