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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc9d473 | Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. | Rick Warren | ||
| 876bbd4 | Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. | Lisa See | ||
| 03bb0f7 | Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore." | old-life homesick | Annie Proulx | |
| 32e51b2 | I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything | surprise | Charles Dickens | |
| 909601f | Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. | humor dickens witness lie | Charles Dickens | |
| 6a71f43 | I wrote back with a quick message: I hit send and received a response back from him almost immediately. | bloodlines sydney-sage the-golden-lily | Richelle Mead | |
| 015618f | I don't know what I'm looking for." "What not?" "Because ... because ... I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn't be able to look for them." | Douglas Adams | ||
| fe17c02 | He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire. | merry vastness mountains | J R R Tolkien | |
| b2bb823 | Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do. | giving | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 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. | lies integrity | 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.. | words-of-wisdom philosophical freedom philosophy wisdom catholic-author citizens civil-liberty free-country gadfly philosophers plato socrates liberty christian freedom-of-thought thought-provoking | 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. | prongs patronus | 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." | inspiration climax hallucinating heir-of-fire | 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." | throne-of-glass manon-blackbeak queen-of-shadows | 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 | |
| beaba8a | Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill! | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 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 superficiality pop-culture | Bob Dylan |