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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d799333 | I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive. | life | Stephen King | |
| a9b8db0 | Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all. | Stephen King | ||
| 92baa97 | Time heals all wounds. | time wound | Stephen King | |
| a7c2bca | What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more. | Kate Mosse | ||
| f809695 | There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 97f6689 | I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d497417 | An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep." | held-back shed tears | Judith McNaught | |
| 289993b | Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 082c7e2 | Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. | african african-authors african-literature literary-fiction literary-quotes literature literature-quotes | Chinua Achebe | |
| 09e9848 | Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has.. | apathy escapism giving-up | James Baldwin | |
| 0b9109d | Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things. | anne-shirley upside | L.M. Montgomery | |
| bf66bbb | Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f362d85 | Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| fc33ada | Wild nights are my glory! | storms | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 3486487 | At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bfd2431 | When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place! | female feminism | E. M. Forster | |
| fc8d4c4 | Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.. | hermione | J.K. Rowling | |
| f696761 | Oh,you may not think I'm pretty, But don't judge on what you see, I'll eat myself if you can find A smarter hat than me. You can keep your bowlers black, Your tops hats sleek and tall, For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat And I can cap them all. There's nothing hidden in your head The Sorting Hat can't see, So try me on and I will tell you Where you ought to be. Y ou might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell brave of heart, Their da.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a8aa15f | Where's the fun without a bit of risk? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8ae7a1f | You'll make mistakes and struggle like everyone, but when you are with the right person, you'll almost perfect joy, like you are the luckiest person who ever lived. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ae97682 | Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 38f4001 | I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. | gemma-doyle individuality libba-bray quirks uniqueness | Libba Bray | |
| 0e97556 | Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know. | Libba Bray | ||
| a14789f | She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away. | Libba Bray | ||
| ab07230 | I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. | rebellion | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| ff84dd3 | Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2a66041 | The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage. | personality | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 74f1f77 | Only children believe they're capable of everything. | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| e4ea896 | But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control. | dam love trickle truth walls | Paulo Coelho | |
| 7890f34 | You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks." | love risks | Paulo Coelho | |
| 73170d3 | The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3f22328 | If civilization has an opposite, it is war. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 99eef4b | Quiet as mice, quiet as the wind, quiet as the grave. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cda8108 | To whatever end?" she breathed. Rowan followed her, as he had his entire life, long before they had ever met, before their souls had sparked into existence. "To whatever end, Fireheart." | kingdom-of-ash rowaelin rowan-whitethorn throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 7598827 | I didn't know how long my sisters and I lay there together, just like we had once shared that carved bed in that dilapidated cottage. Then--back then, we had kicked and twisted and fought for any bit of space, any breathing room. But that morning, as the sun rose over the world, we held tight. And did not let go. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d71dc5c | Don't," Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. "You try to hurt her again and I'll pull your arm off." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1b51467 | Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. | women-s-stories | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 6981a5e | I care so much about everything that I care about nothing | William Saroyan | ||
| a47f2d9 | Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot! | wisdom | Jack Kerouac | |
| 519ce5f | Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1461391 | Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship. | Sam Harris | ||
| 9072aca | Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And .. | Sam Harris | ||
| 97cafd5 | As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping. | José Saramago | ||
| bfa6e56 | Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story. | Sandra Brown |