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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 life interesting | 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. | libraries tsundoku bookshelves | 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 puns nico-di-angelo | 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 | meaning life inspirational | Edgar Lee Masters | |
| 898556f | If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. | writing inspirational | 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. | philosphy inspirational arrogance | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 2787839 | I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live! | diamond-eyes humour fantasy inspirational thriller science-fiction crime | A.A. Bell | |
| be20a3c | Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded. | fiction romance inspirational drama | Sarah Dessen | |
| 2f6f4c3 | A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. "Mom,guess what ?" she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. "what"? she said ,tending to the pots. "guess what?" the child repeated ,waving the drawings. "what?" the mother said , tending to the plates. "Mom, you're not listening" "sweetie,yes I am" "Mom" the child said "you're not l.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f123b0d | You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. You can't run two at once, substituting back and forth. "Sticking with your family is what makes it a family." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2b04105 | You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e599648 | When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? | carnism factory-farms animal-welfare necessity meat animals evil | Matthew Scully | |
| 54de860 | What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted" | Joseph Heller | ||
| d3c6435 | You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e5f1d76 | If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descripti.. | lies reason god-of-abraham imposter jehovah yahweh freethought new-testament judaism freethinker skeptic skepticism fake | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 91e4b3f | It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. | stupidity wisdom-quote valor | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 702df23 | It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. | love rural-life john-watson countryside vile sherlock-holmes experience smiling beautiful london sin | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| d52c5ba | Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again | Antoine de Saint Exupéry | ||
| 7cfb938 | Aiden has gone Rambo on us. | solos | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| f6cf95a | Hey there, sleeping beauty..." Over his shoulder, the sky had deepened to a denim blue. "Did you kiss me awake?" "I did." Daemon was propped on his side, using his arm to support his head. He placed his hand on my stomach and my chest fluttered in response. "Told you, my lips have mystical powers." My shoulders moved in a silent laugh. "How long have you been here?" "Not long." His eyes searched mine. "I found Blake sulking around the woods.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 115c168 | You're not going to answer me?" Or do I need to repeat myself for a third time? It's okay. I like to hear myself talk." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2534ae8 | You..." The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c0f71f8 | He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles). | muscle-shirt stupid | Rick Riordan | |
| 7db9c18 | Why would Gaia be back at camp?' Leo asked. 'Percy's nosebleed was here.' 'Dude,' Percy said, 'first off, you heard Athena - don't blame my nose. Second, Gaia's the earth. She can pop up anywhere she wants. Besides, she told us she was going to do this. She said the first thing on her to-do list was destroying our camp. Question is: how do we stop her? | pecy-jackson leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 51d33a6 | At least he had Annabeth. They would find a way out of Tartarus. They had to. He didn't think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together. They hadn't survived so much just to get killed now. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 67fbf52 | Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?" "I'm pretty sure I never said that." | percy-jackson leo-valdez | Rick Riordan |