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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | love truth dam trickle 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." | rowaelin throne-of-glass rowan-whitethorn kingdom-of-ash | 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 | ||
| 86c3bfe | The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 93d37a6 | We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated. | separation | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 2168dc8 | It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my w.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 396833e | Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 42cf634 | Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 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. | literature african african-authors african-literature literature-quotes literary-quotes literary-fiction | 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.. | giving-up apathy escapism | 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. | upside anne-shirley | 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 | ||
| ba75d53 | The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9625d1c | We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ccfcc3f | Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now? | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 26c8477 | Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is...not us." "Who are Jewish people?" "You know my oldest customer, Mr. Kaufmann? Where we bought your shoes?" "Yes." "Well, he's Jewish." "I didn't know that. Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a license?" ..... "...you'.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ae346b0 | Why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask. | world | Markus Zusak | |
| 5ddb904 | I can't function here anymore. I mean in life: I can't function in this life. I'm no better off than when I was in bed last night, with one difference: when I was in my own bed--or my mom's--I could do something about it; now that I'm here I can't do anything. I can't ride my bike to the Brooklyn Bridge; I can't take a whole bunch of pills and go for the good sleep; the only thing I can do is crush my head in the toilet seat, and I still do.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| fa7ecd7 | My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends? | heartbreak | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ede203a | Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. | existentialism | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 1bb025a | It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| bb2fb74 | People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. | storytelling | Neil Gaiman | |
| 34f4699 | Never be distracted by people's glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives; search and dig for what really imprisons them. | Robert Greene | ||
| 95ca1a7 | The human tongue is a beast that few can master. | Robert Greene | ||
| 3417564 | If you were my girlfriend I would give you a hundred lightning bugs in a green glass jar, so you could always see your way. I would give you a meadow full of wildflowers, where no two blooms would ever be alike. I would give you my bicycle, with its golden eye to protect you. I would write a story for you, and make you a princess who lived in a white marble castle. If you would only like me, I would give you magic. If you would only like me.. | Robert R. McCammon | ||
| 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. | mockingbird jem | 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 |