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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9603e6a | If you knew how to cook, maybe I eat. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 46f592c | Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for years expecting to find him there, and only slowly growing accustomed to the fact that side of the bed would always be empty. The moments when she had found something funny and turned to share the joke with him, only to be shocked anew that he was not there. The worst moment.. | loneliness loss memories love tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| da69356 | Clary's eyes widened. She wondered if she was about to be broken up with. If so, she would have a thing or two to say to Jace about his timing, after she drowned him in the lake. | clary-fray jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| a740b25 | Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes." -Beth" | J.R. Ward | ||
| 0b77f6e | Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they were right for each other. He'd read that book, seen the movie, bought the soundtrack, the DVD, the T-shirt, the mug, the bobble-head, and the insider's guide. He knew every reason they could have been lock and key. But just as he was aware of all that aligned them, he was even clearer on how they were damned .. | lover-mine jr-ward | J.R. Ward | |
| 78a1738 | The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn't have to be another country. It can be the past instead--the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us.. | poverty imperialism race inequality colonialism | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 3639916 | She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]. | religion | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| f5676cf | Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 84b6069 | The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 90560ac | So here's how it went in God's heart: The six or seven or ten of us walked/wheeled in, grazed at a decrepit selection of cookies and lemonade, sat down in the Circle of Trust, and listened to Patrick recount for the thousandth time his depressingly miserable life story-how he had cancer in his balls and they thought he was going to die but he didn't die and now here he is, a full-grown adult in a church basement in the 137th nicest city in .. | John Green | ||
| 82efeae | Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale," I said." | John Green | ||
| c125cf9 | People always get used to beauty, though. I haven't gotten used to you just yet | beauty agustus-waters gus john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| f15d582 | I had no doubt that Tiny he got depressed, but that was probably because he had nothing to compare it to. Still, what could I say? that I didn't just depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? That if he got blue, I got black? That I hated those pills so much because I knew how much I relied on them to live? No, I couldn't say any of this because when it all comes .. | John Green | ||
| 237fdca | Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a3fe2e9 | All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream | dream | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| d04f6d5 | There was just such a man when I was young--an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his reformation by the sword, and plunged the civilized world into misery and chaos. But the thing which this fellow had overlooked, my friend, was that he had a predecessor in the reformation business, called Jesus Christ. Perhaps we may assume that Jesus knew as much as the A.. | war philosphy jesus free-will ideas-are-power might reformation hitler jesus-christ ideas | T.H. White | |
| a7f65f4 | And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there would always be someone to blame. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| f861532 | A man worth being with is one... That never lies to you Is kind to people that have hurt him A person that respects another's life That has manners and shows people respect That goes out of his way to help people That feels every person, no matter how difficult, deserves compassion Who believes you are the most beautiful person he has ever met Who brags about your accomplishments with pride Who talks to you about anything and everything bec.. | marriage gratitude freedom joy friendship happiness blessed grateful christ-like best-choice best-friend god-s-plan honorable-man jealous-women jim-alder joyful king-of-the-kingdom life-partner life-partners lucky-girl lucky-me mate my-husband positive-outlook qualities revelations righteous-man spiritual-man staying-positive tests the-man winning partner the-best selection husband dating father | Shannon L. Alder | |
| 40092cb | Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 98cec3b | One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone ...and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 7b816cd | I would rather be dead than empty | Veronica Roth | ||
| c1548d5 | You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work. | Veronica Roth | ||
| b7bcf11 | Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 1ec1036 | I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 8fd2052 | One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 8e51f37 | Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice. If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencie.. | Julian Assange | ||
| ae53b03 | Hey!" Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall. "No onions!" "Your loss!" "I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!" "Damn, girl. Harsh." | kissing ghost-town halitosis morganville-vampires rachel-caine shane-collins vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 73f4ba4 | Some men because they're afraid to . | thought-provoking | George R.R. Martin | |
| 2e78f0b | She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well. | sea | George R.R. Martin | |
| a29d9dd | A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 70b3540 | Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to transl.. | wonder | Jonathan Carroll | |
| dbc1077 | What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked. Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying." | perseverance | Brandon Mull | |
| f7dfc22 | if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 61f3771 | I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 8ea5dc4 | The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| d5520d8 | I only feel close to people who arouse my energy, who make enormous demands of me, who are capable of enriching me with experience, pain, people who do not doubt my courage, or my toughness. People who do not believe me naive or innocent, but who challenge my keenest wisdom, who have the courage to treat me like a woman in spite of the fact that they are aware of my vulnerability. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 29309b9 | To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| c8a99e9 | A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 57d28f3 | Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities. "You do not know what you are missing by your micro-scopic.. | delta-of-venus | Anaïs Nin | |
| f204174 | The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I said, almost indignantly, "That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a heightened rhythm, and a sequence of events so packed w.. | writing | Anaïs Nin | |
| fc1dc03 | I understood that Valek's loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 9ddd495 | Sometimes I say to a poem, "I don't have the strength To wring out another drop Of the sun." And the poem will often Respond By climbing onto a barroom table: Then lifts its skirt, winks, Causing the whole sky to Fall." | hafiz | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī | |
| 44d936c | All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 92daf30 | I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language. That is, on many levels, astounding to me. I mean, that's like h.. | dresden | Jim Butcher |