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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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.. | lying lies liars | 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. | positive-thinking positivity pioneers | 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. | success self-improvement | 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 ? | wodehouse beauty-in-literature beauty-in-nature | 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 | ||
| 0325027 | there are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3279b62 | There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 8294f33 | Mnogo samujes i dugo cutis, sine moj, zatravljen si snovima, izmoren putevima duha. Lik ti je pognut i lice blijedo, duboko spustene vjede i glas kao skripa tamnickih vrata. Izidi u ljetni dan, sine moj! - Sta si vidio u ljetni dan, sine moj? Vidio sam da je zemlja jaka i nebo vjecno, a covjek slab i kratkovjek. - Sta si vidio, sine moj, u ljetni dan? Vidio sam da je ljubav kratka, a glad vjecna. - Sta si vidio, sine moj, u ljetni dan? Vidi.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 9868306 | Krystal's slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5834d12 | Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 46f6513 | Besides, every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive it. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6715203 | Almost everybody I know has died," Grandma said. "Bunch of wimps." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| c4f378e | I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what with being locked up in a refrigerator, I plumb forgot what was in here to start with. But being that this is a 45 magnum, the most powerful handgun in existence, and it could blow your head clean off, you just got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?" Christ," Spi.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 288fb1d | I'm not interested in being polite. It's false. | Libba Bray | ||
| 1a86418 | That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 60b2a19 | The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 73d548c | Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6b2dbbe | This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e6f360e | He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| a4da648 | Why should I bother defending myself," Nesta said with lethal cold, "to a male who is so puffed up on his own sense of importance there's barely enough space in the room for his enormous head?" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a4ae5a1 | The world began and ended in fire. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 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." | sarah-j-maas rhysand feyre new-adult-romance decisions | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d0d5288 | A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which I may be eligible after the destruction of my body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withhe.. | prayer funny religion humor agnosticism bureaucracy mythology parody | Roger Zelazny | |
| ab2a9b0 | This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes. | humour meet | Tamora Pierce | |
| 86d50bd | Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from -- hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further . He.. | theatre escape escapism human-nature | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3f407ad | After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of yo.. | life | Audrey Niffenegger |