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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 73694a2 | We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 42514be | Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d368fa0 | Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e4208dd | No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't. | Lee Child | ||
| f9495ae | I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip | David Levithan | ||
| 4c25bf4 | Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are. | David Levithan | ||
| 42a6c0a | Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other. | love unrequited-love | David Levithan | |
| 98ea060 | People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. | David Levithan | ||
| a0605de | Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6426a4d | Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. | William Blake | ||
| 40ada82 | Because--isn't it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the culture--? From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart." Only here's wha.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| dab6c01 | Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 7430494 | Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered! More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil. | anvil forge hard-knock-life prydain taran testing worthiness | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 09e89d7 | You want to get married? I'll marry you right now. Is the gnome a preacher, because I'll do it." "That's a hell of a proposal." "What did he say?" Astamur asked. "He wants me to marry him." Astamur relayed it. Atsany waved his pipe and Astamur translated back. Ha! "What?" Curran Snarled. "Atsany says you're not ready for marriage. You don't have the right temperament for it." Curran struggled with that for a second "Let me know if your head.. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 262d355 | A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. | optimism perception | Eoin Colfer | |
| 1e20b3c | It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word 'she. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 10420a2 | Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter? | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 063c6f2 | I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not? | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 9249cb1 | Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 7103769 | And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever. | color death forever hair lemon memory | Markus Zusak | |
| e426f60 | As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 1802bc1 | We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to him at first-I've been where? But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific loacation, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a be.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9355bd6 | The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. | companionship love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 168e3a0 | At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5b60ca2 | You're not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words, it also doesn't have to be important. For example, whenever anyone tells me that they want to write a book in order to help other people I always think 'Oh, please don't. Please don't try to help me.' I mean it's very kind of you to help people, but please don't make it your sole creative motive because we will feel the.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4bf868b | Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear. | sex | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0b08a84 | The man who sees me in everything and everything within me will not be lost to me, nor will I ever be lost to him. He who is rooted in oneness realizes that I am in every being; wherever he goes, he remains in me. When he sees all being as equal in suffering or in joy because they are like himself, that man has grown perfect in yoga. | stephen-mitchell | Anonymous | |
| 5fcf20d | Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight. | day insight lesson night succeed | Anonymous | |
| 4191e14 | The weak are meat the strong do eat. | David Mitchell | ||
| bb21527 | Love is the only rational act. | rationalism | Mitch Albom | |
| 93adffd | Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith. | inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| 959900c | But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see. | Mitch Albom | ||
| a6feb44 | Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 67367fc | But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7862867 | How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. | materialism | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| d17e265 | Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 23ce24a | Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4b9f4eb | as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| e01b296 | My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 8f3e4cd | Those who don't build must burn. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cc4c651 | I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b317087 | There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do? | Raymond Carver | ||
| 9f5ccc9 | Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 4c0c61d | Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. | dead fat fed starving | Emily Dickinson |