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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7d536e2 | Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof." | Holly Black | ||
| bd63b36 | The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or fall. I didn't know how to fly, and I didn't want to fall. So I backed away from the cliff and went in search of something that had a clear, solid trajectory for me to follow, like hopscotch. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4942e89 | When I was One | humor inspirational | A.A. Milne | |
| 1881d3b | What is she to you anyway? | shadow-and-bone love inspirational leigh-bardugo | Leigh Bardugo | |
| 778e398 | Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. | defeat trying inspirational failure | George E. Woodberry | |
| 65ed32b | I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky. | dreams inspirational | R. Kelly | |
| d63d8dd | The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise. | be-yourself inspirational gay-rights | Alex Sanchez | |
| 35c8eb6 | take what you can from your dream | inspirational | Dave Matthews Band | |
| 6dce80f | People often belittle the place where they were born. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 64a7f82 | It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin. | life philosophy pumpkin life-philosophy | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| e3aa839 | We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 7ca5db1 | Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. | vegetarianism | Philip K. Dick | |
| e784018 | It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. | reality mental-illness | Philip K. Dick | |
| bc696f5 | To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a0ea6d2 | Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego. | religion zealotry | Michael Crichton | |
| 827013c | Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord... I'm guilty. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 095dfac | So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. | politics journalism | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| bc17cf4 | Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| a1122e8 | Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3837bf3 | I couldn't be dead. I hadn't even brushed my teeth, for crying out loud | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8299831 | You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks. "Yes" I answer hollowly. "You ass." | Darren Shan | ||
| a71eb1b | I should've blown more stuff up." -Coach Gleeson Hedge" | tradgedy coach-hedge | Rick Riordan | |
| c24f6a0 | Who's the other kid in the photo?' he asked. 'The sandy-haired guy.' Annabeth's expression tightened. Touchy subject. 'That's Luke,' she said. 'He's dead now. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 18261f3 | Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. "You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god." Favonius beamed. "Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?" | love favonius eros heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| c8bc2cd | Cupid said, smashing another skeleton to pieces. "Nico," Jason managed to say, "it's okay. I get it." Nico glanced over, pain and misery washing across his face. "No you don't," he said. "There's no way you can understand." Cupid chided. " | love eros heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| f11471c | He [Nico] regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. 'If the others found out-' 'If the others found out,' Jason said, 'You'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 355a4e5 | Destroy them later?" Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got." | Rick Riordan | ||
| a6f6913 | Look, some people prefer ," Alex said. "They're non-binary or mid-spectrum or whatever. If they want you to use , then that's what you should do. But for me, personally, I don't want to use the same pronouns all the time, because that's not me. I change a lot. That's sort of the point. When I'm she, I'm . When I'm he, I'm . I'm not . Get it?" "If I say no, will you hurt me?" "No." "Then no, not really." She shrugged. "You don't have to.. | magnus-chase | Rick Riordan | |
| fe20b08 | You are like nobody since I love you" -Pablo Neruda This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person's individuality and soul. Love alone is literate in the world of origin; it can decipher identity and destiny" | John O'Donohue | ||
| 7dd29fd | When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch. | music inspirational witch beautiful | Arundhati Roy | |
| 05ff5ac | I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e51b980 | When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore. | war | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| f9e4ec0 | She was extending a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence, she said, "You don't want to talk to me, do you?" I took my daybook out of my knapsack and found the next blank page, the second to last. "I don't speak," I wrote. "I'm sorry." She looked at the piece of paper, then at me, then back at the piece of paper, she covered her eyes with her hands and cried, tears seeped between her fingers, she cried .. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| d763977 | And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go? | Ian McEwan | ||
| 676317f | That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 8483c3d | Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles." | Milan Kundera | ||
| 1ce0fdb | You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1682b8c | The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 62c1143 | Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 46337b2 | Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur. | Julie Andrews Edwards | ||
| 30794bb | Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice. | optimism happiness inspirational umbrellas observation | Julie Andrews Edwards | |
| fbe84ed | A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dea3a17 | You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3ad58b4 | You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place. | Jodi Picoult |