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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dad2937 | The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d244e6f | I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c706da7 | Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha' been a good deal easier if you'd only been a witch. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9514a4b | I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c399272 | Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 1de9b22 | Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. | Alice Walker | ||
| de42797 | No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 7a504ea | I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn] | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 643f8c3 | How did you get me here? (Tory) I have my evil Jedi ways. The Force is strong with this one. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ad9430a | Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them. | dark-hunter sherrilyn-kenyon | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 43512a8 | When Liam stepped forward again, Derek's arm shot around me , a growl vibrating up from his stomach. Liam put his hand out toward me. When Derek tensed he pilled back, then did it again, testing his reaction, laughing when he got one, untill even Ramone started to laugh. "Check this out," Liam said. "I think the pup's got himself a mate. Isn't that the cutest thing?" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| bd12742 | I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing. I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell. As i love you,"He told me." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9e7fbd1 | Will you be?" I asked, suddenly anxious. "Will you really be here?" "As long as you want me," he assured me. "I'll always want you," I warned him. "Forever." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 510c01d | From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940): Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen. The voice of forest water in the night, a woman's laughter in the dark, the clean, hard rattle of raked gravel, the cricketing stitch of midday in hot meadows, the delicate web of children's voices in bright air--these things will never change. The .. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| c570286 | Certainty is missing the point entirely. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f529fab | music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8a337f2 | I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 36ff3d0 | But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 94728fc | On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear of nostalgia would salt her palate when she saw the strips of damp earth and the piles of mud that the earthworms had pushed up in the garden. Those secret tastes, defeated in the past by oranges and rhubarb, broke out into an irrepressible urge when she began to weep. She went back to eating earth. The fi.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 50b0930 | I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 8a340df | When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. | numbers | Don DeLillo | |
| 5d7a0d2 | There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. The only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, movin.. | William Golding | ||
| 24d0e21 | People don't help much. | ralph | William Golding | |
| 82cddd8 | An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 62f9ba0 | I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance. | Arthur Rimbaud | ||
| 530b6a5 | Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting. | Dan Brown | ||
| e8ead66 | The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death. | Dan Brown | ||
| ff6d4fa | He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119) | happiness pleasure | Charles Dickens | |
| 2242268 | In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and y.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 9d364c6 | We had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 32dcd16 | Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden. | Truman Capote | ||
| be20eba | Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. | man love | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d35e460 | Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 830a2d0 | Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b1ed681 | I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. | people mothers | Jodi Picoult | |
| 819353b | The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her? | love jodi-picoult samantha-van-leer | jodi picoult samantha van leer | |
| 4456590 | and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| c0b802b | People left him alone. And that was all he wanted. | want solitude | Patrick Süskind | |
| 77ebbf6 | I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 046b8ed | She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. | E. M. Forster | ||
| d81f409 | The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. | Plato | ||
| 0f6d314 | I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him. | jesus religion | Yann Martel | |
| 9804c5f | Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. | scientists | Yann Martel | |
| 7530abe | Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless --unless they've got to. | harry-potter page-215 the-bribe deathly-hallows j-k-rowling parents | J.K. Rowling |