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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 7f4becc | Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office--the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement--is of such importance. In my case.. | depression future reality happiness life assistance bupropion hays-office measurement mentorship publicity soothsaying horoscopes uncertainty-principle werner-heisenberg self-delusion perception virtues writers smoking | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 4e24f95 | If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do. | marry single | Thomas Hardy | |
| e695abe | I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2f6223c | It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men. | dreams god gods | Carl Sagan | |
| b1774f7 | No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves. | love dracula | Bram Stoker | |
| e814a82 | When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a .. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 412ad4d | The moon in her chariot of pearl | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e8c769f | Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside. | tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 25aee7b | Love isn't a weakness. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a9e3e02 | There's more to honesty than ... than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can't lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor -- | honesty | Cassandra Clare | |
| f7e2a02 | We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us." "Downworlders?" "The Night Children. Warlock. The Fey. The magical folk of this dimension." Clary shook her head. "Don't stop there. I suppose there are also what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are," Jace informed her. "Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests .. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 31b171e | That though he is weak, he can still burn. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| fc5b483 | I am Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durendal. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| e9b5aa6 | She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 980078d | As long as we're together, I'm ready for anything. | love jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 000e576 | At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes. " , Shadowhunter," he said." | city-of-glass valentine-morgenstern luke-garroway the-mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| da5acba | I don't remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac," said Magnus. "It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?" | valentine-morgenstern tessa-gray magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5d9c30c | I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2469dc5 | Don't be with him, don't want him, don't go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don't know how to be without you. | pain love jace-wayland heartache | Cassandra Clare | |
| 97590eb | She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 91eb270 | But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer. | dreams thruth | Toni Morrison | |
| 8b6b7c2 | Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that stat.. | miracle settle settle-for-less potential potential-for-greatness mediocrity choices | Og Mandino | |
| 6b92830 | Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse. | wealth | Og Mandino | |
| a676355 | Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. | dicta building-industry cheops khufu megalomania pyramids building | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| ef332a6 | You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch." "Yes." "It's sort of what we have instead of God." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d99cba2 | Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. | the-old-man-and-the-sea symbolism | Ernest Hemingway | |
| a9f283a | The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star. | Proust Marcel | ||
| 57f26a4 | love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 2c2b440 | Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky--but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, i.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a4c8123 | When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 6c671ef | Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 6c2da7f | We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem. | John Green | ||
| 5be9b72 | I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him. | John Green | ||
| efa9e7a | That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. | John Green | ||
| 66eda0c | But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be. | John Green | ||
| 784bc79 | We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken. | nerdfighters | John Green | |
| 38f2f5e | She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds. | kiss science love meteor space | John Green | |
| b1f86dd | I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I .. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| eb8bbe3 | He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b3f68fc | As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b9c6c18 | The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")" -- | universe morals physics values | Martin Luther King Jr. |