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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 467e9df | You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me. | worth identity value | Stormie Omartian | |
| d709673 | She blew a stream of smoke up at the empty clotheslines. 'These silly dreams you have when you're young. I mean, what, Katie and Brendan Harris were going ot make a life in Las Vegas? How long would that little Eden have lasted? Maybe they'd be on their second trailer park, second kid, but it would have hit them sooner or later - life isn't happily ever after and golden sunsets and shit like that. It's work. The person you love is rarely wo.. | love | Dennis Lehane | |
| 4385a16 | This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life. | Jess Walter | ||
| d8bcff8 | He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink. "Yes," I said. "She did it for you, you know." "What?" "Gave up her self, for a while there. She loved you that much. What an incredibly lucky kid you were." I could not look at him. "I know." He shook his head with a wistful sadness. "No, you don't. You can't know yet. Maybe someday..." I knew he was tempted to say more. Probably to tell me how stupid.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 56bf74f | Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. | big-lie post-factual post-truth reality-control donald-trump adolf-hitler totalitarianism fascism propaganda | Hannah Arendt | |
| 1422d54 | Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley" | reading writing friends humor | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 9adb09e | I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are. | David Levithan | ||
| 3b706b4 | A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price. | women | Charles Bukowski | |
| 7e57b2c | Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6a77e60 | they say that nothing is wasted: either that | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 15dc0c3 | Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 17111de | Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| c0364f8 | Who judges the judge who judges wrong? | justice | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 891366f | Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination. -Calvin | Bill Watterson | ||
| f8c8a11 | People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function. | David Mitchell | ||
| cfe2ad2 | in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful." -- | hatred violence ignorance power | David Mitchell | |
| e0164bc | You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest. | listen full humble humility learn | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 08a86e4 | The phone rang. I picked it up. "Kate Daniels" "It's me," Curran said. "I--" I hung up." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 91f7ceb | Say 'pop.'" "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass." | magic-slays ilona-andrews kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| f660e5f | The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0323c03 | He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands. | Miranda July | ||
| d168385 | Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter." | gramma morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| c183b5b | Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast." | morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 0833d43 | I just--we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn't, um--'' ''Yeah, you'd better not have ummed. | eve-rosser morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 7d3cf08 | Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| c47dc37 | And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all. | honesty narrowness uncertainty | Jack Kerouac | |
| 21f8b84 | Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| bf2be66 | Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 6a38623 | I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 9014419 | n 'rdt 'n tHZ~ bkhdm@ mmtz@ khdm nfsk bnfsk. | José Saramago | ||
| a669134 | The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. | struggle reason nirvana class society utopia irrationality | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 55acf82 | Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her--doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 2850d94 | You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fbaf88d | He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cbc8b09 | I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. | endless ending | Neil Gaiman | |
| eddb843 | Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending. | fiction | Neil Gaiman | |
| c4daf26 | Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! | Clive Barker | ||
| 113264e | There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 46ee28a | If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fd0db86 | Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort" | city-of-bones magnus-bane humourous | Cassandra Clare | |
| 209d6ef | Mark, looking beatific, took the dispenser of maple syrup off the table and upended it over his strawberries. He picked one up and put it in his mouth, stem and all. Julian stared at him. "What?" Mark said. "This is a perfectly normal thing to eat." "Sure it is," said Julian. "If you're a hummingbird." | mark-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 09828f4 | This cat is looking at me with judgment.""He's not," said Jules. "That's just his face.""You look at me the same way," Mark said, glancing at Julian. "Judgy face." | funny church-the-cat jules-blackthorn tda james-carstairs mark-blackthorn lady-midnight jem-carstairs the-dark-artifices emma-carstairs jemma julian-blackthorn judgment | Cassandra Clare | |
| 36d3046 | Were you thinking about eating me? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 7511044 | There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go? | rage venting | Cassandra Clare |