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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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.. | fear writing writing-life | Steven Pressfield | |
| 332f9af | Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive | greek-tragedy patriarchal-society | 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 internet neal stephenson wwii | 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 | ||
| 9637089 | Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| ddbe83c | This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. | Carol Shields | ||
| b0bf9c5 | Every moment must be first known and then savored. | Anne Rice | ||
| 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. | richard-adams truth 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. | books reading stories story | 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." | lola rubber-bands | 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." | knowledge think | 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 | ||
| 10ecbaf | Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. | jem mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
| 4a0e28b | I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative. | loneliness | David Levithan | |
| 9235888 | There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love. | David Levithan | ||
| 225be32 | Must being in love always mean being in pain? | Alain de Botton | ||
| e580d46 | The wisdom to quit is all we have left. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| ecfdd93 | and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| b0cb5b3 | I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 61591ab | she wasn't very interesting but few people are. | bukowski conversation death family humanity interesting life love people poem poetry society women | Charles Bukowski | |
| c13d7db | Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. | grief-and-loss hope-and-despair | David Mitchell | |
| a9bd89d | Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good? | good | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 4d86fd7 | No one ever really gets used to nightmares. | Mark Z. Danielewski |