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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b19932d | The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!" | Stephen King | ||
| b6c7432 | The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may mak.. | Stephen King | ||
| a70174c | When they die no one will ever know that once they lived. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| b330fc7 | Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind. | poetic | Francesca Lia Block | |
| be2612e | Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. | reading teaching women | Virginia Woolf | |
| d02a6cb | Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side.. | Anne Frank | ||
| 682d5ed | I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 71c2d80 | Between skin and skin, there is only light. | John Fowles | ||
| 4be6f82 | If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save. But we are unbelievably ignorant concerning what goes on in our country--to say nothing of what goes on in the rest of the world--and appear to hav.. | James Baldwin | ||
| eb36f79 | I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and !" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a989ac7 | In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism. | marxism | Cornel West | |
| 1f42ac3 | Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty. | childhood-friends college-romance love-story | Krista Ritchie | |
| 1f8d8c5 | It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He had thought that was it. Wasn't king the best you could be? Now it occurred to him that perhaps Terabithia was like a castle where you came to be knighted. After you stayed for a while and grew strong you had to move on. For hadn't Leslie, even in Terabithia, tried to push back the walls of his mind and make him see beyond to the shining worl.. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 9abafbf | She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 6405da1 | I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea. | ocean sea | Gary Paulsen | |
| 78c6ccf | I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 2cd1c1b | Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. | Yann Martel | ||
| 16369ce | Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare . . . what did Professor Sprout say? -- it likes the dark and the damp --' 'So light a fire!' Harry choked. 'Yes -- of course -- but there's no wood!' Hermoine cried, wringing her hands. 'HAVE YOU GONE MAD?' Ron bellowed. 'ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6029349 | Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose. | choice decisions | J.K. Rowling | |
| eda6e94 | Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...." "I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. What happens if you break it, then?" "You die," said Ron simply. "Fred and George tried to get me to make one when I was about five. I nearly did too, I was holding hands with Fred and everything when Dad found us. He went mental," said Ron, with a reminiscent gleam in his eyes. "Only time I've ever seen Dad as angry as Mum. Fred reckons his .. | george harry-potter ron vow | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9ca9830 | Jacob: Tell me -- has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry? Newt: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0cf628e | Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right. | safe-haven | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 63cc25a | Fear dims when you learn things. | Lois Lowry | ||
| cf9ae7a | What do you feel? I've never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren't supposed to feel. We're British. | Libba Bray | ||
| c6be8af | After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| de40c91 | If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you. | ritual self-awareness | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1edfb82 | No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| be283cb | When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.. | communication honesty influence | Paulo Coelho | |
| 967b5fb | The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. | inspirational the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8cdcf2d | There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning. | paulo-coelho romance the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| 653ad0c | The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats. | paulo-coelho the-pilgrimage | Paulo Coelho | |
| a29fb46 | If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0bff251 | It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 6547519 | The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life. | the-witch-of-portobello | Paulo Coelho | |
| 9262e90 | She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 315ebe1 | Lawyers are alright, I guess -- but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did .. | holden-caulfield phonies the-catcher-in-the-rye | J.D. Salinger | |
| a40bd9f | And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea... | cold numb | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| b4c7b1c | I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite. | happiness | Hermann Hesse | |
| dab7923 | The Captain of the Guard would be an interesting opponent. Maybe even worthy of some effort on her part. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b1d4f1d | You think I don't know how stories get written- how this story will be written?" Rhys put his hands on his chest, his face more open, more anguished than I'd seen it. "I am the dark lord, who stole away the bride of spring. I am a demon, and a nightmare, and I will meet a bad end. He is the golden prince- the hero who will get to keep you as his reward for not dying of stupidity and arrogance." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4a8a3c1 | I am going to find the Crochans. And I am going to raise an army with them. For Aelin Galathynius. And her people. And for ours. - Manon | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8a4155c | Courage of the heart is very rare," she said with sudden calm. "Let it guide you." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 14478c8 | I and this mystery, here we stand. | Walt Whitman | ||
| dd7d2f5 | Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. | Rebecca Solnit |