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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f2da6b4 | Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you. | tana | Holly Black | |
| 2721a09 | When did you become a woman?"-Hatori How dare you ask that after you have seen me naked so many times..."-Yuki GASP! No it cant be! Yuki-kun, does that mean..." fan club girls NO! He's my doctor..."Yuki" | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| d5eaf46 | But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. | work life | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| a784cc4 | To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world--impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 0ea9a0b | What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? - | oppression | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 2981b84 | when you're cool for twenty | inspirational | Miguel Pinero | |
| b9ce833 | Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. | start-up step-out-of-your-comfort-zone courage dream leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation dreams change inspiring motivational life inspirational comfort-zone achievement leader leaders | Roy T. Bennett | |
| eaf6eaf | If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it. | action bravery doubt feelings follow-your-dreams good-enough just-do-something passion perseverance pursue-your-dreams risk take-action courage musician persistence faith fear confidence dreams motivational success inspirational actor just-do-it athlete concern business encouraging career security ambition determination contentment skill worry emotions gift talent insecurity | Criss Jami | |
| 1474ef9 | Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. | motivational inspirational | Marilyn vos Savant | |
| a35b9be | Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9ee8842 | You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own. | education life college | Jeannette Walls | |
| 884bffa | Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| c37233d | and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| c0af6f8 | At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| b773023 | I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. | inspiration life-lessons ender | Orson Scott Card | |
| c7b250c | She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 6733371 | Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 018ce51 | Go ahead," Apollo said to Luke. "Tell them what it is, since it's obviously hugging material." Crimson stained Luke's cheeks. "Legend goes that one of the gates to hell is in Stull Cemetery in Kansas." "Oh, gods," I muttered, remembering where I'd heard this before. "Wasn't that a season finale on Supernatural?" When the boys nodded, my eyes rolled. "Seriously? Are Sam and Dean going to be there?" -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ddc5f15 | If I say thank you, will you go away?" "Yes" "Thank you" I said eagerly. "I lied" "What?" I looked up at him, frowning. "That's messed up" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a0a700c | The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo | hades nico-di-angelo torture | Rick Riordan | |
| 56f809c | Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. | humour goldfish koi percy-jackson | rick riordan the mark of athena | |
| 0098d05 | I gave the dwarves an arrogant look, like, Yeah, that's right. I've got a talking disco sword and you don't. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9b64c72 | He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth. He was also disappointed when she woke up. | piper-mclean piper jason-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| b3719b1 | Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped." | Rick Riordan | ||
| d34e7a2 | Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end." "You haven't killed me yet," I noted. "Don't tempt me." | humor greek-mythology fighting percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 19bd5dc | Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. | immortality grammar | Margaret Atwood | |
| b9bb7cd | It is rather exciting to write by moonlight. | write | Dodie Smith | |
| dde930c | The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am. | real perfect person | Christine Feehan | |
| abdb5e3 | The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. | Franz Kafka | ||
| f83cf3b | In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood | Milan Kundera | ||
| 43a3fdb | I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. | humour life fooball | Nick Hornby | |
| 40da839 | But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6c3abcc | Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory. | evaporation memory weather | Haruki Murakami | |
| 98aa789 | I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. | racism | William Faulkner | |
| 8ed60eb | It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any. | life conduct-of-life society rules | Wallace Stegner | |
| b945d4e | At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in. | heaven hope | C.S. Lewis | |
| 22a1070 | Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. | pride | C.S. Lewis | |
| 4cb1279 | We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v) | Elie Wiesel | ||
| f3372f6 | October Country . . . that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at nigh.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 30cda19 | There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| a93365d | He knows she's his daughter, twit. (Artemis) Twit? Moi? The Simi? Why, I do believe the bitch-goddess has done gone and gotten herself confused. She thinks she's me, not that I blame her. All women want to be me because of my beautoneousness and the fact that I have such stylish clothing and sparklies. But believe me, I ain't no heifer-goddess. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4777939 | You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8e0e88c | What are you talking about? Are you for real? (Nick) What do you mean? The Simi's not turning invisible again, is she? Ooo, that would be bad. I promised akri I wouldn't do that no more in public places. But sometimes the Simi can't help it. Kind of like putting barbecue sauce on salads. It's just mandatory and reflexive 'cause you gots to kill the taste of the ick rabbit food. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e2456ef | Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me. | song | Peter S. Beagle |