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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 431cf3b | When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| f53218a | Jaime," Brienne whispered, so faintly he thought he was dreaming it. "Jaime, what are you doing?" "Dying," he whispered back. "No," she said, "no, you must live." He wanted to laugh. "Stop telling me what to do, wench. I'll die if it pleases me." "Are you so craven?" The words shocked him. He was Jaime Lannister, a knight of the Kingsguard, he was the Kingslayer. No man had ever called him craven. Other things they called him, yes; oathbrea.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6939ba9 | It's truly weird how everyone just thinks they can bring me Diet Coke and everything will be okay. Especially since it's pretty much true.-Lizzie Nichols | Meg Cabot | ||
| 04d6d91 | One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. | death interesting life | Jimmy Buffett | |
| f1d2351 | Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? | Sara Gruen | ||
| 9470f02 | There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long-- PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution. | revolution | Warren Ellis | |
| add9531 | Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. | bookshelves libraries tsundoku | Alberto Manguel | |
| cedc89d | If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We'll see who hates best. But first, first I will destroy your hatred. Now. My hate is colder, stronger, and you'll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing. | Jean Rhys | ||
| cdddaaa | Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 84f92da | That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it. | life pity | Robin Hobb | |
| 155e6ba | Unnerved, Summerset moved quickly to the communication center. "Roarke, the lieutenant has just come in from outside. She wore no outer gear. She looks very bad." "Where is she?" "She's heading up. Roarke, I insulted her and...she to me. Something must be done." | summerset | J.D. Robb | |
| 5c8659f | There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through. | surreal | Anaïs Nin | |
| 6885c0b | Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 2ae84cc | You put on such a brave front. But I know if I took another step toward you, you'd wet your pants.' 'With your blood.' I brandished my knife. But I couldn't keep a straight face; the boast sounded ridiculous even to my own ears. I snickered. She laughed. The release of tension made me giddy, and soon I was laughing and crying. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 2b5b32a | This did not seem to reassure Nico. "I don't like being in the dark," he muttered. An odd complaint for a child of Hades, but I understood what he meant." | humor nico-di-angelo puns | Rick Riordan | |
| adb34c7 | In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. | chess-game | Stefan Zweig | |
| 4b842d1 | Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane it defies the gravity of a entire planet by exploiting a loophole with air pressure and it flies across distances that would take months or years to cross by any means of travel that has been significant for more than a century or three. You hurtle above the earth at enough speed to kill you inst.. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 872f7aa | Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6bcbde5 | There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 2b7c6c8 | People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers - everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and everyone tells you you're very dramatic, very intense, and they see it as an affectation, but it's actually just how you think. It really seems to you that the sky will fall if you are not personally holding it up. On the one hand, this is sheer arrogance; on the other hand, this is a very real fear.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4c90c11 | Death is a fascinating thing. The human mind continually returns and returns to death, to mortality, immortality, damnation, salvation. Some fear death, some seek it, but it is in our human nature to wonder at the limits of human life, at least. When you are sick like this you begin to wonder too much. Death is at your shoulder, death is your shadow, your scent, your waking and dreaming companion. You cannot help, when sleep begins to touch.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 03c021e | To put meaning in one's life may end in madness | inspirational life meaning | Edgar Lee Masters | |
| 898556f | If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. | inspirational writing | Giacomo Casanova | |
| a93538d | Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. | arrogance inspirational philosphy | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 2787839 | I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live! | crime diamond-eyes fantasy humour inspirational science-fiction thriller | A.A. Bell | |
| be20a3c | Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded. | drama fiction inspirational romance | Sarah Dessen | |
| f5a8830 | Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KI.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 49248b9 | Of course.. some people, me included, believe that punk is just the most recent manifestation of this, this spirit, this feeling, you know, that things aren't right and that in fact things are so wrong that the only thing we can do is to say Fuck It, over and over again, really loud, until someone stops us. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 87de579 | The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 2d0adba | songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window .. | music philosophy pop-culture superficiality | Bob Dylan | |
| a2382ce | When I get free, I believe I'll show you your spine. I'll hand it to you so casually, politely even, as if expecting you to remark upon it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 06bd296 | Ah, but she was a pastel wearer. She was forever dead to Sabine. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 999ff27 | Now you're just being silly. He's a mercenary- he's not going to go about penning love letters, and really, what would he write? 'Anna...love you...grrr?'" Olivia to Annalia" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 64fa099 | Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon. | Stephen King | ||
| f17d7ec | All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue -- when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day -- I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious. | Stephen King | ||
| 2385bff | I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. | Stephen King | ||
| 93185fa | He was a romantic in his own harsh way...yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all. | Stephen King | ||
| 98433ff | Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster | Stephen King | ||
| eb7017e | True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| a10448e | She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt into my face like a filly at the gate. She smells of the sea. She smells of rockpools when I was a child. She keeps a starfish in there. I crouch down to taste the salt, to run my fingers around the rim. She opens and shuts like a sea anemone. She's refilled each day with fresh tides of longing. | passion sex | Jeanette Winterson | |
| fed89e0 | Explore me,' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I'm free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon's wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know. | passion soul | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f3adfb8 | This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success. | Anne Frank | ||
| 068afd7 | Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| bbb1439 | Rumors are spread by jealous people | Laurie Halse Anderson |