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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a88196c | I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e28a338 | She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 675a574 | From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 6bbb4b8 | I'm doing badly, I'm doing well, whichever you prefer. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 692c98d | My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. | life | Haruki Murakami | |
| c72092e | I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together. | running old-age | Haruki Murakami | |
| 303ee82 | When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time." - But there's no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I'm living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 09a8f6c | Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. | louisiana insanity | James Lee Burke | |
| 5d9fd0e | I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience. | Steve Martin | ||
| fed81ce | at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered. | strength life inspirational | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 2ae91a7 | My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn't all about me? | obsession | Jodi Picoult | |
| 69b1714 | The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 00cb9b8 | At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that -- the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... .. | writing learning-by-doing trial-and-error craftsmanship creative-writing craft training writing-process talent | William Faulkner | |
| 6e19700 | He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how, but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him. They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst, perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place. They would be alone, surround.. | James Joyce | ||
| 31857f7 | Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 7039cd0 | With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything... | solitude life | Saul Bellow | |
| 3954410 | Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode. | William Styron | ||
| 1a6988f | What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1060844 | You actually enjoyed that, didn't you? (Amanda) Oh, hell yes! Did you see the look on their faces? Man, I love this car. (Kyrian) (She looked up at the sky and implored divine aid.) Dear God, please separate me from this maniac before I die of fright. (Amanda) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5995e5b | I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e49d080 | I want you to always hold your head up and follow your dreams wherever they take you. Don't you ever listen to the people out to hurt you or make you cry. Listen to your heart and be better than them. No one gets ahead by hurting others. The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That's what's important, Torimou. (Theo) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 984a67c | Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won't be so dense. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8e2ba0b | The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a5364bc | Finally, he pushed back the chair and exhaled. "He's alive," I said. "Your dad's alive." He loooked up at me and, I couldn't help it-- I threw my arms around his neck and hugged him. Then I realized what I was doing. I let go, backing away, tripping over my feet, stammering. "I-I'm sorry. I'm just--I'm happy for you." "I know." Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wra.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 683c21d | You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella" | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c1168e8 | Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'd all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. | leah-clearwater werewolf | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 60e5085 | That maybe you should make the most of what time you have? That you shouldlive while you're alive? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| cf688fd | Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth? | stephenie meyer | ||
| ea9a8a7 | I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 544ffb6 | We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in 's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. | earth poem nature poetry robert-frost frost preservation environment survival | Rachel Carson | |
| e1a709c | Politics always change. Stories never do. | Stephen King | ||
| 643a4e7 | People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That's a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man's touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don't understand how you could have self-confidence if you don't do the work... I have never, ever, ever, met a high confident person and successful person who is not what a movie would call a 'workaholic.' Because confiden.. | success inspirational hard-work | Mindy Kaling | |
| 821d1b5 | But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth? | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 1af5700 | Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. | science god noremorse atheist | Christopher Hitchens | |
| e172914 | And it didn't matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl, the stars shone brighter. As if she were the one keeping them illuminated. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 8c13dba | I can't imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla. Not that Josh would ever fall for me. But I wouldn't want to ruin any chance. Even though I don't have a chance. But just in case I do. Even though I don't. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 9f56961 | All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| ee3bfe0 | Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 09b6c53 | There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure in order to avoid misery, what has he gained?...how can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointments can bring?...If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desir.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 73c18ef | The camel has a big dumb ugly hump. But in the desert, where prettier, more streamlined beasts die quickly of thirst, the camel survives quite nicely. As legend has it, the camel carries its own water, stores it in its stupid hump. If individuals, like camels, perfect their inner resources, if we have the power within us, then we can cross any wasteland in relative comfort and survive in arid surroundings without relying on the external. Of.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4fa90ae | 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;.. | photography humor satire don-delillo white-noise tourism | Don DeLillo | |
| 91a167c | I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 49b4cc6 | Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion. | religion organized-religion | Dan Brown | |
| 33e8ebc | Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking." | money influence success life opinions decisions | Napoleon Hill |