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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9c9bd2d | You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it's all we got. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e96d5b6 | Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks. | cars sarcasm | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 3c6ed3f | A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. | truth richard-adams watership-down | Richard Adams | |
| 271f0a7 | The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge. | Stephen King | ||
| be1def6 | In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e5a4be5 | Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. | story reading books stories | Anne Fadiman | |
| fb8a68e | It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner. | library readers | Anne Fadiman | |
| ee1a298 | Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ba34c49 | Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind...a mutual understanding of each other. I haven't felt this way in forever. | chapter-24 perfect-chemistry | Simone Elkeles | |
| e84958f | Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 045b7e3 | Conditioned to ecstasy, the poet is like a gorgeous unknown bird mired in the ashes of thought. If he succeeds in freeing himself, it is to make a sacrificial flight to the sun. His dreams of a regenerate world are but the reverberations of his own fevered pulse beats. He imagines the world will follow him, but in the blue he finds himself alone. Alone but surrounded by his creations; sustained, therefore, to meet the supreme sacrifice. The.. | henry-miller | Henry Miller | |
| 45afba0 | Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 35a1ed4 | Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so. | foul grace | William Shakespeare | |
| efefe86 | How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! | William Shakespeare | ||
| a9ad6dc | This warmth over the telephone. Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Bridgette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home. I mull this over as our voices grow tired and we stop talking. We just keep each other company. My breath. His breath. My breath. His breath. I could never tell him, but it's true. This is home. The two of us. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 03a1ecc | He glances down and notices that I'm still wearing a certain blue something, and, this time, it's HIS index finger that wraps underneath MY rubber band. I shiver wonderfully. "I'm never taking it off." Cricket brushes the delicate skin of my wrist. "It'll fall off." "I'll ask you for another one." "I'll give you another one." He smiles and touches his nose to mine." | rubber-bands lola | Stephanie Perkins | |
| cc5ecba | Having shapely buttocks. Nice one, Bridge. | butts | Stephanie Perkins | |
| ed57e76 | Look, we're trying to explore other options to your retirement," the whitecoat said. "You might be useful to us in other ways." Because we're not that useful dead,"Nudge said thoughtfully. No," I agreed. "Well, maybe as doorstops." The whitecat made an "eew" expression. Or those things in a parking lot that show where the cars should stop," suggested Iggy. He closed his eyes and went stiff, to demonstrate what it would look like. Also an o.. | James Patterson | ||
| 7e89d67 | Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous." | think knowledge | Garth Nix | |
| ab5db4e | People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 5c69d13 | I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let's think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow--that's vulnerability. | inspirational | Brené Brown | |
| 390dd81 | It really is true. It took this awful situation for us to realize it. Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and he is a little too little. I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e395937 | Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| e83e15c | But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't. | inferno | Dan Brown | |
| c9be580 | Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom." | Dan Brown | ||
| cf71cad | When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure -- not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul. | Lisa See | ||
| 3e3004d | Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the gro.. | writing-life writing fear | Steven Pressfield | |
| 332f9af | Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive | patriarchal-society greek-tragedy | Euripides | |
| 9865a4b | Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything.. | humor stephenson neal wwii internet | Neal Stephenson | |
| af53c98 | We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me. | sacrifice success | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| fb94a4d | besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 38fca43 | None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is. | David Guterson | ||
| 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! | feminism female | 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. | individuality quirks gemma-doyle libba-bray 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 |