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| 53de22c | Maybe it's not metaphysics. Maybe it's existential. I'm talking about the individual US citizen's deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of larg.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| df56162 | What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people." "No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 662f942 | I inherited this country when I was only a child, Nahuseresh. I have held it. I have fought down rebellious barons. I've fought Sounis to keep the land on this side of the mountains. I have killed men and watched them hang. I've seen them tortured to keep this country safe and . How did you think I did this if I was a fool with cow eyes for any handsome man with gold in his purse? | politics | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 601f2ef | I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe. | tris-and-four divergent four veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 663ec20 | Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four's landscape," says Uriah. "Like he would let anyone do that," she says, snorting. Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it." | Veronica Roth | ||
| f307f8f | I don't ..." I sound like I am being strangled. "My family is all dead, or traitors; how can I ..." I am not making any sense. The sobs take over my body, my mind, everything. He gathers me to him, and bathwater soaks my legs. His hold is tight. I listen to his heartbeat and, after a while, find a way to let the rhythm calm me. "I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, .. | Veronica Roth | ||
| cc7da36 | I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 138bfa4 | I feel more like myself. That is all I need: to remember who I am. And I am someone who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near-death experiences stop her. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 7908209 | The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though? | Veronica Roth | ||
| dee1126 | I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity. | Veronica Roth | ||
| d79fdfc | The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. | supermarkets gardens gardening food | Joel Salatin | |
| 9f4e522 | I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret. | Alan Moore | ||
| b37a085 | With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty | Alan Moore | ||
| f3b8f01 | You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. and what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. this .. | Julian Barnes | ||
| dc6bb2f | And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?" "If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons." | humour tyrion-lannister george-r-r-martin sci-fi | George R.R. Martin | |
| e49f1c2 | Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again. | fathers trust heartbreak love sansa-stark george-r-r-martin game-of-thrones queen mistakes prince | George R.R. Martin | |
| 4406af1 | Maybe it's not metaphysics. Maybe it's existential. I'm talking about the individual US citizen's deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of larg.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 513d899 | She stepped forward as if to pick up the fur she'd tossed over a chair. Smoothly, she turned to hand it to him. And with perfect timing, flung herself into his arms. The sable fell as he took her shoulders to shove her back. Eve stepped to the doorway to see Magdelana with her arms locked around Roarke's neck, his hands on her bare shoulders--one of the ivory straps sliding to her elbow. "Son of a bitch," she said. On cue, Magdelana spun ar.. | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| f99c6d9 | The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility. | literature freedom fear intellectual-freedom hypocrisy perversion puritanism sterility censorship evil | Anaïs Nin | |
| 7a91162 | It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, .. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| b551a09 | You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 507c0e3 | The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| c8ff62a | Yelena." I halted in the doorway, looking back over my shoulder. "You once said I wasn't ready to believe your reason for killing Reyad. I'll believe you now." "But I'm not ready to tell you," I said and left the room." | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| f58d270 | And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked. | vengeance | Alexandre Dumas | |
| aadef69 | But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choic.. | Holly Black | ||
| 2e9011e | There you are," Cardan says as I take my place beside him. "How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversation about how my head is going to find itself on a spike." | fantasy i-love-them sarcastic holly-black jude faeries | Holly Black | |
| 235eef9 | You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked. | Holly Black | ||
| 084a9bd | Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier. | Holly Black | ||
| f71a6ce | By November, you wish you were dead. You want nothing more. Every day, every fucking day, you run up the steps of the house, breathing hard, swing open the cupboards, thinking: You pitiful little bitch. Fucking cow. Greedy pig. All day, your stomach pinches and spits up its bile. You sway when you walk. You begin to get cold again. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| a0964ab | Light is more important than the lantern | light poem inspirational lantern | Nizar Qabbani | |
| dd3b490 | The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer did.. | mortality bravery morality death science inspirational cancer doctors belief medicine atheism inevitable knowledge honor | Lance Armstrong | |
| 4515960 | When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable | inspirational | Myles Munroe | |
| 7994c48 | Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you. | happyquotes inspired instadaily instaquote pinquotes poems quoteoftheday relationships rmdrake spokenword vsco writer poetry writing quote hope inspirational inspirationalquotes sadquotes typewriter tattoo sayings lovequotes quotes | robert m drake | |
| 59aa995 | There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. | inspirational manners | Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S | |
| baad756 | If you are her man, she will talk to you until there jus | inspirational | Steve Harvey | |
| 91ff32a | I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It's always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as it rubs and scours, gnaws and kneads, eats and bores its way through the land. Even the greatest rivers- the Nile and the Ganges, the Yangtze and he Mississippi, t.. | inspirational river growth self | Aidan Chambers | |
| b1c8255 | Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. | politics religion inspirational political-parties | Abraham Lincoln | |
| a03c112 | Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. | past life inspirational questioning regret | Colleen Hoover | |
| 19bea1e | Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. | friends motivational inspirational weeds garden flowers | Steve Maraboli | |
| 6968f27 | I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| bb5b097 | No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. | entropy | Philip K. Dick | |
| 6a2d05d | lftH@ ll`skry ... ql` lTrbwsh w `ml wly | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 20636a6 | have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them. | smile | Brad Thor | |
| bb4d529 | And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name. | Orson Scott Card |