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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f2c47a4 | It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| b6669a7 | The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen. | wisdom | Ray Bradbury | |
| 73a6fb6 | Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8feca8c | and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 885f80e | See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, f.. | Robert R. McCammon | ||
| 38afa40 | The blood jet is poetry There is no stopping it. | poetry | Sylvia Plath | |
| c81da9e | I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 610c5ad | We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living. | John Updike | ||
| f1f36fb | She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away. | rape skin girl teen incest | Cynthia Voigt | |
| 6b3f07b | The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| fe8ad47 | When Rae got back, she spread her empty hands wide and said "Okay, guess where I hid it." She even turned around for me, but I couldn't see a bulge big enough to hide a flashlight. With a grin, she reached down the front of her shirt into the middle of her bra, and pulled out a flashlight with flourish. I laughed. "Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 669ddb3 | What's wrong?" I didn't say a word." Something's up. What is it?" Nothing." His head turned, gaze going to mine. "Yeah?" Yes." A snort and he returned to his bowl..." | derek | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 2dae6e2 | As long as she wants me, I'm here. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 283fd33 | I'm just here to be your friend. Your best friend, one last time. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c07adab | I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak," he laughed." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 846a43d | His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| ab3529c | Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and.. | Annie Dillard | ||
| e45234c | Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1e17a66 | Listen, I don't want to be an asshole to you,' I say. So much for the Alex Fuentes Show. 'I know. It's your image, what Alex Fuentes is all about. It's your brand, your logo... dangerous, deadly, hot and sexy Mexican. I wrote the book on creating an image. I wasn't aiming for the blonde bimbo look, though. More like the perfect, untouchable look.' Woah. Rewind. Brittany called me hot and sexy.... 'You do realize you called me hot.' 'As if y.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 1e946a5 | Just so you know, I'm goin' to enlist." "I'm proud of you. But why?" I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. "I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep." | dick-westford conversation | Simone Elkeles | |
| 0a0b33d | As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet. | chain-reaction nikki reaction | Simone Elkeles | |
| a1e45b1 | O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss, Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger: But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves! (Act 3, scene 3, 165-171) | William Shakespeare | ||
| a9d743e | Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| a6f2a7b | Meretricious. Showily attractive but cheap or insincere. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 7a4dc81 | But--" "But what? You love him, and he loves you, and you live in the most romantic city in the world." I shake my head. "It's not that simple." "Then let me put it another way. A gorgeous boy is in love with you, and you're not even gonna try to make it work?" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 79cfa94 | What did that stupid deserting crap-bag ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend with the most perfect stupid hair do? He DIDN'T delete his crap off the desktop before he fled my life and left me all alone. That's what he did. | James Patterson | ||
| fd1187e | Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude? | Garth Nix | ||
| 71f5a00 | People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness. It is the look of someone who walks from the ophthalmologist's office into the bright daylight with dilated eyes, or of someone who wears glasses and is suddenly made to take them off. .. | loss-of-faith | Joan Didion | |
| d241f1b | I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. | punch old-man ego insulting | Ayn Rand | |
| c4b3aed | Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5407155 | Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra. | time | John Steinbeck | |
| 57fc1f7 | Be bold. But not bold, be fucking bold. | James Frey | ||
| 8d904f1 | White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. | Jack London | ||
| 3e3d5be | out of the frying pan and into the fire | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| de3d5a3 | The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| febda95 | Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 84b44f4 | Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bdec49a | The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 75763f9 | If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving... | Isabel Allende | ||
| 9f6ca6f | Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life. | Yann Martel | ||
| 3fcf0c8 | Love blinds. We have both tried to give our sons, not what they needed, but what we needed. We've been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we've blighted their present. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3622f1a | But Death was cunning. | j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| e00c97f | Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3754429 | Hope springs forever. | inspirational encouraging hopeful | J.K. Rowling |