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| 052ba41 | Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she'd dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they'd lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings--as a reader will. After all,.. | reading stories | Cornelia Funke | |
| 56ec99f | I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim... | Jack Kerouac | ||
| bb1a436 | I had grown up in a house with a fence around it, and in this fence was a white smooth wooden gate, two holes bored round and low together so the dog could see through. One night, the moon high, late for me home from the school dance, I remember that I stopped, hand on the gate, and spoke so quietly to myself and to the woman that I would love that not even the dog could have heard. I don't know where you are, but you're living right now, s.. | Richard Bach | ||
| bd2211e | In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the fa.. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 969e53f | If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going? | humor true-to-life marriage-advice | Shel Silverstein | |
| c67b50d | If its got tires or testicles it's going to give you trouble | P.C. Cast | ||
| 4ea73dc | Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction) | Kim Harrison | ||
| 433dc10 | There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. | progress confrontation | Christopher Hitchens | |
| c4ddec4 | There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any. | Carl Sagan | ||
| ba5eedf | No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn't as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was only to be expected. It would be inappropriate, undignified, at thirty-eight, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour and intensity of a twenty-two-year-old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a whole day to make a compilation tape, asking people if .. | romance | David Nicholls | |
| b8f9091 | I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. | xenophobia | Michel de Montaigne | |
| b2584bf | the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace." | Michio Kaku | ||
| c8b2fd8 | We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes. | evolution | Richard Dawkins | |
| d4e4318 | Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 33af56e | To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d66d380 | This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| db97a49 | Well, what? Sophie-" "I hit her on the head with a mirror," Sophie said hopelessly. "One of those silver-backed ones, so it was quite heavy. She went down just like a stone, miss. So I...I tied her to the bed and I came looking for you." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 673759d | Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went." | tessa infernal-devices will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8adcd36 | They also said she was unconscious and that Valentine wasn't happy about it. He seems to be waiting for her to wake up." "I'd stay unconscious if I were her," Isabelle muttered." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 750ced3 | We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 91394f4 | You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement | jace-wayland modesty | Cassandra Clare | |
| a73f2ae | The love a parent had for a child, there nothing else like it. No other love so consuming. No father-not even Valentine-would sacrifice his son for a hunk of metal, no matter how powerful." (The Inquisitor) "You don't know my father. He'll laugh in your face and offer you some money to mail my body back to Idris." (Jace) "Don't be absurd-" "You're right," Jace said. "Come to think of it, he'll probably make you pay the shipping charges yo.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8e48fb9 | Love potions? For Will 'erondale? 'Tain't my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you 'as got no need of love potions, and that's a fact." "No," Will said, a little desperation in his voice. "I was looking for the opposite, really -- something that might put an end to being in love." "An 'atred potion?" Mol still sounded amused. "I was hoping for something more akin to indifference? Tolerance?" She made a snorting noise, ast.. | tid the-infernal-devices clockwork-prince will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 45a5cce | Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones, | Cassandra Clare | ||
| e175bb3 | Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic." | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8fbfd9f | When he faced her again, he had never looked to her so much like one of the Fair Folk. His eyes were full of feral amusement, a carelessness that spoke of a world where there was no human Law. He seemed to bring the wildness of Faerie into the room with him: a cold, sweet magic that was nevertheless a bitter at the roots. The storm calls you as it calls me, does it not? He held out a hand to her, half-beckoning, half-offering. "Why lie?" he.. | mark-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1b7ac50 | Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 3767067 | Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 306b6d2 | Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 0784053 | All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. | Marcel Proust | ||
| aaa4b0c | I'm tired of this. It's like, just when I think our goal is within reach, it slips right through our fingers. It's happened time and again. Now, when we finally in our grasp, the truth slaps us in the face. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 0a2892c | He's not that smart." "She's right," Augustus says. "It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations." "Right, it's primarily his hotness." "It can be sort of blinding," he said. "It actually did blind our friend Isaac." "Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?" "You cannot." "It is my burden, this beautiful face." "Not to mention your body." "Seriously, don't even get me started on m.. | funny tfios | John Green | |
| 7f43ae7 | Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except that his pale skinny legs are visible, and his arms hug plastic bags. I can see the back of Lacey's legs beneath her dress, her calves tight in midstride. I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite. | John Green | ||
| 3f17118 | You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you. | John Green | ||
| d280b22 | Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafes in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 2e06e15 | Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. | friends friendship owls | T.H. White | |
| 5aea0c6 | Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 0919b9f | Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear." | funny true-blood sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 39c5023 | And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince." "Good," Beatrix said. "Because all she's met so far are princes who turn into frogs." "Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures." | humor hathaways poppy courtship | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 31eeaae | You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris!" He sounds desperate now. "Okay, okay." I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it's right over my heart. "Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?" "Yes." "Feel how steady it is?" "It's fast." "Yes, well, that has nothing to do with the box." I wince as soon as I'm done speaking. I just admitted to som.. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 5b6a6af | Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her, and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.' | tobias-eaton tris-prior | Veronica Roth | |
| 73f2047 | I may be in pain, but I am not weak. | strong-women strong-female-characters strong-heroine strong | Veronica Roth | |
| fae2d92 | Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break." | four tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 6b25f69 | I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. 'You'll have to do better than that,' I say. | Veronica Roth |