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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0d9eb11 | The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 9895a7f | Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. | meaning | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 68429d6 | Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 3f87446 | The zipper opened all the way down our spines. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| f814e6b | During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water. | suicide rain collarbones the-virgin-suicides skinny | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| b418c5a | What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there. | Truman Capote | ||
| c77432c | Chance favors the connected mind. | innovation insightful internet | Steven Johnson | |
| 89560c9 | If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar. | h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
| 597a903 | How to Leave the Planet 1. Phone NASA. Their phone number is (713) 483-3111. Explain that it's very important that you get away as soon as possible. 2. If they do not cooperate, phone any friend you may have in the White House--(202) 456-1414--to have a word on your behalf with the guys at NASA. 3. If you don't have any friends in the White House, phone the Kremlin (ask the overseas operator for 0107-095-295-9051). They don't have any frien.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| da7dcf4 | Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament ... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth. | romance love eucharist | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 703e68d | He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| bbd9409 | his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5e27a21 | And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1ea73ec | If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made. | mistakes | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3628f8d | For most of my life I have struggled to find God, to know God, to love God. I have tried hard to follow the guidelines of the spiritual life--pray always, work for others, read the Scriptures--and to avoid the many temptations to dissipate myself. I have failed many times but always tried again, even when I was close to despair. Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to kn.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| d861934 | If gold rusts, what then can iron do? | inspirational rust imperfection gold iron fallibility flaws | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 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. | humor inspirational dumbledore | 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!" -- | funny third-person fudge mcgonagall | 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.. | love j-k-rowling | 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? | inspirational planet environment | 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. | stars romantic magic love manon-blackbeak queen-of-shadows witch | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2c0b2a5 | There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having. | present past | Terry Pratchett | |
| 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 |