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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | old-age running | 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. | insanity louisiana | 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. | inspirational life strength | 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 ... .. | craft craftsmanship creative-writing learning-by-doing talent training trial-and-error writing writing-process | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| beaba8a | Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill! | Tamora Pierce | ||
| decb846 | You know, I don't get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each," said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. "They really know their stuff. . . ." "Oh, they only know flashy stuff that's no real use to anyone," said Hermione disparagingly. "No real use?" said Ron in a strained voice. "Hermione, they've got about twenty-six Galleons already. . . ." -- | funny george-weasley useless-talents | J.K. Rowling | |
| b75d1bd | The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 5714e5b | Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 481beff | I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. | Graham Greene | ||
| 0c03caa | I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up aro.. | carl-sagan cosmos | Carl Sagan | |
| 44bfc8b | I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 8c68c0b | Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| ac43719 | the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0d475cc | that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a162aa2 | There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d48b233 | You live in my head all the time." (Clary Fray)" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 6562d92 | Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you! | clockwork-princess jem-carstairs page-244 will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| d5b79a2 | He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 41c47b9 | The moment the door closed behind him, Tessa was in Will's arms, her hands locked about his neck. "Oh, by the Angel," she said. "That was mortifying." Will slid his hands into her hair and was kissing her, kissing her eyelids and her cheeks and then her mouth, quickly but with fervor and concentration, as if nothing could be more important. "Listen to you," he said. "You said 'by the angel.' Like a Shadowhunter." He kissed the side of her .. | love mortifying p-435 tessa-gray william-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 41a8918 | Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge." "Does he know that?" said Livvy. Julian sought Mark in the crowd on the steps. He was standing with his hands behind his back, exchanging a mistrustful look with a carved stone gnome. "Your pretense does not fool me, gnome," he muttered. "My eye will be upon you." -- | gnome in-charge julian-blackthorn livvy-blackthorn lord-of-shadows mark-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| f0ac137 | What are you doing following me around the back streets of London, you little idiot?" Will demanded, giving her arm a light shake. Cecily's eyes narrowed. "This morning it was cariad (note: Welsh endearment, like 'darling' or 'love'), now it's idiot." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f1798a2 | I thought you needed me," Jem said. "There is a wall you have built about yourself, Will, and I have never asked you why. But no one should shoulder every burden alone. I thought you would let me inside if I became your parabatai, and then you would have at least someone to lean upon. I did wonder what my death would mean for you. I used to fear it, for your sake. I feared you would be left alone inside that wall. But now ... something has .. | parabatai william-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1c08985 | Will nodded slowly, then looked up at tha black sky. "The stars", he said. "I have never seen them so bright. The wind has blown off the fog, I think." Magnus thought of the joy on Will's face as he had stood bleeding in Camille's living room, clutching the demon tooth in his hand. Somehow I don't think it's the stars that have changed." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2ee6aea | A Shadowhunter I believe you know send for me--Tatiana Blackthorn? The lady used to be a Lightwood, did she not?" Magnus turned to Will. "And your sister Cecily married her brother. Gilbert. Gaston. I have a shocking memory for Lightwoods." "I begged Cecily not to throw herself away on a Lightworm," Will muttered." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f775dc9 | And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is .. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 2bdc941 | It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 0c5e2d1 | V rolled the Aquafina bottle between his palms. "How long have you wanted to ask me the question? About the gay thing." "For a while." "Afraid of what I'd say?" "Nope, because it doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I'm tight with you whether you like males or females or both." V looked into his best friend's eyes and realized... yeah, Butch wasn't going to judge him. They were cool no matter what. With a curse, V rubbed the center of.. | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| aa454df | I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 66676a7 | Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. | humans thinking wisdom | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| e37674f | Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. | underdogs weakness | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 74e83bf | Algunas veces lees un libro, sientes un extrano afan evangelizador y estas convencido de que este desastrado mundo no se recuperara hasta que todos los seres humanos lo lean. Y luego estan los libros como Un Dolor Imperial, de los que no puedes hablar con nadie, libros tan especiales, escasos y tuyos que revelar el carino que les tienes parece una gran traicion. | John Green |