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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 88a87ea | I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 920d0f3 | This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... | birds tree turkey yourself | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 548eee0 | I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing. | Pat Conroy | ||
| bd1e72e | There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 0b59aa9 | Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. | meritocracy | Chinua Achebe | |
| 75840b9 | What Do You Care What Other People Think? | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 6ec8170 | Blood is a powerful thing | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1f99ca1 | Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. | life | E.M. Forster | |
| 6b728e3 | The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. | integrity lies | E.M. Forster | |
| f2cf317 | Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato? Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a sculptor. Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have no need to be reminded. Plato: That is correct. Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were c.. | catholic-author christian citizens civil-liberty free-country freedom freedom-of-thought gadfly liberty philosophers philosophical philosophy plato socrates thought-provoking wisdom words-of-wisdom | E.A. Bucchianeri | |
| 4225427 | She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made.. | Isabel Allende | ||
| edc2f2b | Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. | Yann Martel | ||
| 0bb88da | He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a wh.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3f7a9de | Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself. | patronus prongs | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8265bc3 | Always the tone of surprise. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| d7ede61 | When the lump in his throat subsided, he whispered to her, "You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 168178f | The key to happiness was achievable dreams. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 68fc153 | Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2672f89 | if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8d0da65 | Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| cdac6a8 | I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a8a994a | People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| a665729 | She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars. | Lois Lowry | ||
| baad738 | The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows. | Libba Bray | ||
| 88fe70c | This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership. | fight-club | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 2082577 | There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| be33185 | Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . . | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d157be5 | But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 4f483d6 | Never stop dreaming. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b2f5c51 | it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| d55bd16 | Love, too, was just a question of time | quotes | Paulo Coelho | |
| bf714d0 | I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself. | wisdom | Hermann Hesse | |
| bba7aa2 | I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a367a53 | Aelin Galathynius smiled at her, hand still outreached. "Get up." the princess said. Celaena reached across the earth between them and brushed her fingers against Aelin's. And arose." | climax hallucinating heir-of-fire inspiration | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ab5eced | The Wing Leader said from behind her, "Do you believe monsters are born, or made?" From what she'd seen today, she would say some creatures were very much born evil. But what Manon was asking... "I'm not the one who needs to answer that question." Elide said." | manon-blackbeak queen-of-shadows throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 89e2ce7 | Using the chair is not a punishment. It is not a prison,' he said softly. 'It never was. And I am as much of a man in that chair, or with that cane, as I am standing on my feet.' He brushed away the tear that slipped down her cheek. 'I wanted to heal you,' she breathed. 'You did,' he said, smiling. 'Yrene, in every way that truly matters . . . You did.' Chaol wiped away the other tears that fell, brushing a kiss to her hot cheek. | yrene-towers | Sarah J. Maas | |
| bab388b | Oh, hey, Claire," she said, and blinked. "Where are you going?" "Funeral," Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. "Yeah? Cool! Whose?" "Hers." Shane said." | Rachel Caine | ||
| c3cc234 | Sarcasm will make your tits fall off. | gullibility sarcasm | Christopher Moore | |
| 6742c4f | Routine feeds the illusion of safety... | Christopher Moore | ||
| cfd0743 | Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 5618128 | One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 546098c | Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that? | death speak-not-ill-of-the-dead | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 5ab5053 | It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 62800b7 | We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were 40 cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras;.. | don-delillo humor photography satire tourism white-noise | Don DeLillo |