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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5fef1bf | Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. | simile | John Green | |
| 0d87f88 | The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| e755a88 | What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practic.. | inspirational | David Nicholls | |
| 29500c4 | It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away. | life loss | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4c7edfa | You really love her don't you," she said. With all my heart." She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her. What's your heart telling you to do?" | romance | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 4ac8119 | Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice. | flirting sex | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 1cfb447 | Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. | inspirational self-improvement self-knowledge | Albert Einstein | |
| 74dbcda | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. | opening-lines | Charles Dickens | |
| 3f10a15 | My mother made a squeaking sound that might of been either "yes" or "help". Poseidon took it as a yes and came in. Paul was looking back and forth between us, trying to read our expressions. Finally he stepped forward. "Hi, I'm Paul Blofis." Poseidon raised an eyebrow and then shook his hand. "Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish. I am Poseidon." "Poseidon? That's an.. | paul percy-jackson poseidon tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| ca927b6 | My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that. | humor introduction percy-jackson school trouble | Rick Riordan | |
| 51e1375 | It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 123831a | There is a way to be good again... | inspirational | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 8d7998e | I like myself better when I'm with you. | tuesdays with | Mitch Albom | |
| 676cbcb | The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than ai.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 8c52b17 | You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. | heart life living | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8123319 | The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. | self-confidence self-doubt | Sylvia Plath | |
| 78bd65b | I am large, I contain multitudes | Walt Whitman | ||
| d4ebee7 | Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! | liar | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 29a236a | Just because you said dragon demons were extinct--" "I said mostly extinct." Alec jabbed a finger toward him. "Mostly extinct," he said, his voice trembling with rage, "is NOT EXTINCT ENOUGH." "I see," said Jace. "I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?" | city-of-ashes humour jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| dccfa44 | An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards. | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett | ||
| c746232 | Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. | George Orwell | ||
| 7b93cce | The world," Aelin said, "will be saved and remade by the dreamers, Rolfe." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1e52592 | I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 30ec31f | Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. | foolishness inspirational | Elbert Hubbard | |
| 1249e06 | If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. | humor | George Bernard Shaw | |
| fe140cd | I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e37977d | What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practic.. | David Nicholls | ||
| 683b80a | Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 18cd4c7 | She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9802c6b | It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. | hungarian-horntail panic relativity | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5682f4e | Without fear there cannot be courage. | bravery courage fear inspirational | Christopher Paolini | |
| 2e41721 | I see you're determined to miss my point." "If you're point is that there was a pretty girl in the room and it was distracting you, then I think I've taken your point handily." "You think she's pretty?" Will was surprised; Jem rarely opinioned this sort of thing. "Yes, and you do too." "I hadn't noticed, really." "Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 340616f | Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 3a270b2 | It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 908e8cd | By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell." Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth. "I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?" | demon fearlessness humor jace-wayland sarcasm taunting teasing | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6911924 | Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. | inspirational life | Henry Rollins | |
| a8f5366 | Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains in the moon. Roads go ever ever on, Under cloud and under star. Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen, And horror in the halls of stone .. | poem | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2ed4d5c | The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 7bf9e49 | when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose." | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 82d2073 | You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys wa.. | David Levithan | ||
| cc77fbb | Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. "You BROKE my PHONE." Jace shrugged. "Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don't let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop." Alec looked furious. "So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot." Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. "You're welcome." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 6a68552 | Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d7e8440 | This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 0397ae4 | Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. | Alan Lightman |