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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a016944 | she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c12ae48 | His mind was freshly inclined toward ; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that his current.. | responsibility sorrow | George Saunders | |
| f442b49 | Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? | Bob Dylan | ||
| 9daf806 | There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. | time tonight today | Bob Dylan | |
| 276e2af | At fifty times the distance, you dispatched that ko-bold with three arrows to the neck. I've earned a trio to the chest. Seems you slapped him while you're tickling me. You doona want to kill me, which is a good sign. Maybe this is your way of flirting? | Kresley Cole | ||
| e6f0111 | She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship. | Stephen King | ||
| a36e2aa | I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| dfc9fff | Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3c68cfd | Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 198ac47 | Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose. | fate | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 806f656 | It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed. | sex relationships inspirational inspirational-love breakups realization men-and-women | Sue Grafton | |
| 02c7396 | Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. | sadness | Anne Frank | |
| 69a7b33 | I started getting Mal's texts just before lunch. Mal: Awake Anne: Morning Mal: Going for a run with Jim Anne: Have fun! Mal: Back from run having lunch ... Mal:Your taste in music sucks Anne: Thanks Mal: Seriously, we need to talk it's that bad. Everything apart from Stage Dive needs to go. Anne: Wait. What are you doing? Mal:Fixing it. Anne: Mal, WTH are you doing? Mal: Making you new playlist wih decent shit. Relay Anne: K Thanks Mal: Bor.. | mal | Kylie Scott | |
| d81ec55 | The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. | nature spiritual wisdom inspirational heavens | Anne Frank | |
| 176d342 | Reformed rakes often make the best husbands. | rake | Judith McNaught | |
| cdcc589 | All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order.. | James Baldwin | ||
| f282cdc | I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other--and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8c8106e | I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us. | love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 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 lemon forever hair 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. | love companionship | 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. | succeed day lesson night insight | Anonymous | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |