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| 03e9239 | There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do. | intelligence prodigies | John Green | |
| fc47163 | Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered." | John Green | ||
| a8cb1cf | It was the meanest moment of eternity. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 353d8cc | You're just the romantic age," she continued- "fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty." - Hildegarde" | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| e72b461 | A faint smile touched Emily's mouth. "You want kids?" "I want bucketloads tucked neatly into a minivan," he laughed. "Gavin Blake in a minivan?" "Absolutely," he replied, reaching for his beer. "A funky forest green one, too." | Gail McHugh | ||
| 56d6549 | A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so joyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them... | T.H. White | ||
| 8a33362 | I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others. | shakespeare бард lily cozy mystery | Charlaine Harris | |
| 74ecef5 | I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it." | heartbreak bill-compton sookie-stackhouse vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| 98c4bba | Logic is relative. | John Irving | ||
| a22943c | In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances and never make friends. An acquaintance shows you only the best of himself, he's considerate and polite, he conceals his defects behind a mask of social convention; but we grow so intimate with him that he throws the mask aside, get to know him so well that he doesn't trouble any longer to pretend; then you.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 72b09aa | My name is Tobias Eaton," Tobias says. "I don't think you want to push me off this train." The effect of the name on the people in the car is immediate and bewildering: they lower their weapons. They exchange meaningful looks. "Eaton? Really?" Edward says, eyebrows raised. "I have to admit, I did not see that coming." He clears his throat. "Fine, you can come. But when we get to the city, you've got to come with us." Then he smiles a little.. | Veronica Roth | ||
| b3fe7c2 | Well," he said with an affected sigh, "you have my approval, at least." "Why?" Hyacinth asked suspiciously. "It would be an excellent match," he continued. "If nothing else, think of the children." She knew she'd regret it, but still she had to ask. "What children?" He grinned. "The lovely lithping children you could have together. Garethhhh and Hyathinthhhh. Hyathinth and Gareth. And the thublime Thinclair tots." Hyacinth stared at him lik.. | humor siblings | Julia Quinn | |
| 70772c8 | The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. | alex-jones young-men confirmation-bias conspiracy conspiracy-theories | Alan Moore | |
| b841379 | A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn't all corruption. The movie doesn't h.. | loneliness films society movies | Pauline Kael | |
| 1ca2409 | Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world. | reading maester-aemon samwell-tarly | George R.R. Martin | |
| 1fc1d3b | As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons. | dragons | George R.R. Martin | |
| b487211 | You're Ned Stark's bastard, aren't you?" Jon felt a coldness pass right through him. He pressed his lips together and said nothing. ,,Did I offend you?" Lannister said. ,,Sorry. Dwarfs don't have to be tactful. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head." He grinned. ,,You are the bastard, though." ,,Lord Eddard Stark is my father," Jon admitted stiffly. Lannis.. | tyrion-lannister jon-snow | George R.R. Martin | |
| 6d16672 | I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8127a9e | The ruby at Melisandre's throat gleamed red. "It is not those foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold." "It is always cold on the Wall." "You think so?" "I so, my lady." "Then you know no.. | parallels melisandre ygritte jon-snow the-wall | George R.R. Martin | |
| 967e62e | And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.... | Meg Cabot | ||
| b0d36a0 | At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f105327 | When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. | uniqueness | Louis L'Amour | |
| 9b78ef5 | Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? | pain pleaseure | Robin Hobb | |
| dca233a | Todos estos libros, lo noto, me estan cambiando por dentro. Yo no podia imaginarme que esto de leer era como vivir. | Rosa Montero | ||
| b5b5262 | Eve: "She had big plans for me. Kind of a pet, I imagine. Like William. Her little trained dog. And with you dead, she figured I'd inherit all your goodies. You're not going to do that to me are you?" Roarke: "What, die?" Eve: "Leave me all this stuff." Roarke: "Only you would be annoyed by that." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 63ac639 | We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 7109c5c | In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?" I stood and removed his shirt. "Then they'll have a good story to tell." "Good?" He adopted the pretense of being offended. "Prove me wrong." | love | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 416bb5e | I reached out blindly, clasped a warm hand, faded from life and into peace. Well, that was what was supposed to happen.... Except an annoying, distracting tug kept pulling and yanking.... When I woke, I thought I had overcome the pull and stayed in the afterlife. Whiteness billowed over me in soft waves. My body was cushioned and cocooned in warmth. I stretched my legs and then tried to raise my arms, but my left arm wouldn't budge. Rolling.. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| e3f4d54 | You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 116550a | I stand in front of my window and imagine myself a fearless knight, imagine myself a witch who hid her heart in her finger and then chopped her finger off. | Holly Black | ||
| 1342517 | Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns? | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 3e16370 | Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. | social-justice volunteers inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspiring inspirational community-service volunteer volunteering volunteerism community | H. Jackson Brown Jr. | |
| e1da6ac | Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. | inspirational | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| f9d6acc | The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance. | aidan illuminae inspirational | Amie Kaufman | |
| f205a0f | When the wind blows,the grass bends. | inspirational | Confucius | |
| d3cdafa | Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! | innkeeper jesus inspirational maxwell | Neal A. Maxwell | |
| c2c5ec4 | The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. | books inspirational read | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | |
| ab11b7b | The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. | inspirational | Anaïs Nin | |
| 03784d8 | Embrace aging. | aphorisms | Mitch Albom | |
| e2a592e | How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 431b749 | Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| c014e69 | Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. | persona genealogy | Orson Scott Card | |
| ee95b6a | Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up." | Lynne Truss | ||
| 5a0059c | The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. I took him in my arms, and rocked him. I said to him: "The flower that you love is not in danger. I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep. I will draw you a railing to put around your flower. I will --" I did not know what to s.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |