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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 588ae04 | But I find myself unable to resist the temptation. The same way you can't resist watching me whenever we're out. So territorial. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8343ddc | Was I interrupting? I thought it was over." Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he'd known I was about to say no. "At least Feyre seemed to think so." | decisions feyre new-adult-romance rhysand sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6fbe9ca | There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. | Walt Whitman | ||
| d8aaaa0 | Amy adored both the new look and the new person it allowed her to be. Following the photo shoot, she wore her bruises to the dry cleaner and the grocery store. Most people nervously looked away, but on the rare occasions someone would ask what happened, my sister would smile as brightly as possible, saying, 'I'm in love. Can you believe it? I'm finally, totally in love, and I feel great. | David Sedaris | ||
| d4273e5 | From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 2ef8071 | Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. And so it piled up to the ceilings: Coffee grounds, potato peelings, Brown bananas, rotten peas, Chunks of sour cottage cheese. It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window and blocked the door With bac.. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 381049f | Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197 | sex william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| bae160c | And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 4922f09 | Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry. | Billy Collins | ||
| 7f3d92f | No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game. A man wouldn't have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn't venture off to get fucked. It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives. | Philip Roth | ||
| 77b11fe | The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. | Brian Greene | ||
| 73ffa32 | Ain't many guys travel around together," he mused. "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other." | scared | John Steinbeck | |
| 88cf4fb | Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew t.. | liars lies lying | John Steinbeck | |
| eff8a02 | For the most part people are not curious except about themselves. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a98468f | To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country - your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents. | pioneers positive-thinking positivity | Napoleon Hill | |
| 61f3913 | I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself. | self-improvement success | Napoleon Hill | |
| 973ba2b | This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world." | need | Steven Pressfield | |
| d77d864 | Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 4f4608e | Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. | men purpose | John Eldredge | |
| e82c577 | Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest. | Jack London | ||
| 6a32196 | If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b3e0524 | The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. | truth | Frank Herbert | |
| 4e684cc | I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 8dac703 | we become the stories we tell ourselves | Michael Cunningham | ||
| fa7f36a | I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c25e1a1 | Beauty doesn't have to be anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto ? | beauty-in-literature beauty-in-nature wodehouse | Douglas Adams | |
| b9e680b | I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2d93a94 | I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d2a6200 | See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. | Herman Melville | ||
| ac3f020 | We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 9149388 | Menoeceus wants his father. (Astrid) Bob is crying because he wants his mother to stop calling him that crap-ass name. It's all right, Bob. Daddy's got you now. I'm saving you from Mommy's bad naming taste. I'd be crying, too, if my mom named me after an idiot. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a553bbb | Have you ever noticed that salvation, much like your car keys, is usually found where and when you least expect it? (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f76b2b8 | The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this had to do with rigor mortis. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a623c61 | May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it. | wishing | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 5c2d884 | Derek's change came faster now and maybe a bit easier--no vomiting this time. Finally it was over, and he fell onto his side, panting, shaking, and shivering. Then he reached for my hand, holding it tight, and I entwined my fingers with his, shifting closer and using my free hand to brush sweaty hair from his face. "Whoa," a voice said, making both of us jump. Simon stood in the entrance to our corner, a pile of fabric in his hands. "You re.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 09c5036 | When you can't be with the one you love, will you stay with the one who loves you? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c3ed078 | Yeah, I'll always be your friend. No matter what you love. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c403169 | I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life... | Joseph Conrad | ||
| f5e7830 | Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 8dcad82 | From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man. | Amy Tan | ||
| 5c7b5ec | A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 53ae18c | All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| a5ae4ca | Get thee to a nunnery. | William Shakespeare | ||
| dd07f1c | True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. | happiness mindfulness philosophy | Henry James |