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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed7a5de | You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am. | Nicholas Sparks (Safe Haven) | ||
| c0187ea | I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 66b43c0 | The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born | Antonio Gramsci | ||
| 8345bc8 | You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it's about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what's real. | Libba Bray | ||
| 432a47d | Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1ee18ad | If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ed9b549 | Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a2d1ca8 | Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| bbd77bc | My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice. | life mothers | Amy Sedaris | |
| 2b92046 | She haunted his thoughts, made him wish to do grand and wonderful things in her name. | love | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b2f922c | Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind. | rincewind | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9d69e3e | Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0a97089 | If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children. | girl-power | Terry Pratchett | |
| 29f791f | It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9131de7 | Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| f7814e3 | It figures--it's always either the butler or the resurrected mate. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8dbad8c | When you got captured, I didn't know..." He trailed off, had to chug whiskey before he could continue. "If it'd be like..." "What?" "Like it was with Clotile." "Oh, Jackson, no. I was okay. I'm unharmed." "Didn't know if I'd get there too late," he said with a shudder. Then he crossed over to me, until we stood toe-to-toe. "Evie, if you ever get taken from me again, you better know that I'll be coming for you." He cupped my face with a bloo.. | young-adult romance love science-fiction | Kresley Cole | |
| 909d5f3 | Music is part of being human. | Oliver W. Sacks | ||
| e4b3205 | What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do. | man-in-black roland stephen-king falling | Stephen King | |
| fce6dc4 | A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club. | Stephen King | ||
| 0d248fe | Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback. | David Baldacci | ||
| 6e3d395 | I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me. | solitude love longing | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 775b542 | In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courag.. | women-s-strength | Anne Frank | |
| ddcedef | Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 8e6b982 | It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7a7721e | You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| bbc10c4 | The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. ... The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'. | philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| 794aa94 | Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being. | sex race | James Baldwin | |
| cfcb49a | Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1dafebb | Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there? | wonder life interesting | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 1651053 | ykhyl ly 'n lrjl l`Zm lbd 'n ysh`rw `l~ hdhh l'rD bHzn `Zym | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d0870cc | My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8d41e8e | God preserve you, my dear boy, from ever asking forgiveness for a fault from a woman you love. From one you love especially, however greatly you may have been in fault. For a woman--devil only knows what to make of a woman: I know something about them, anyway. But try acknowledging you are in fault to a woman. Say, "I am sorry, forgive me," and a shower of reproaches will follow! Nothing will make her forgive you simply and directly, she'll.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4cb9446 | What a fine persecution--to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 1bab43c | how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant. Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall. Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it. | time descant fowl mervall paradox | Eoin Colfer | |
| e5f8c91 | everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4bf352f | I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky" | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5d33465 | What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 94b9d54 | Make my happiness--I will make yours. | marriage | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 91c4915 | Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 6a01b68 | According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all. | success life | Jon Krakauer | |
| 285767d | I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have." | humor prince-kheldar silk | David Eddings | |
| 0b3bbb6 | It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement. | snowmen snowman | Markus Zusak | |
| 41958fe | We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me. | Markus Zusak |