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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c4f039 | One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . ." | humanity the-little-prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 8d7f541 | Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled. | Alex Garland | ||
| 9dd1905 | There's something different about you," he says. "I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh. "Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair." | Darren Shan | ||
| ad26496 | At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4a5e5af | The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car. Up until then I was having a great afternoon. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b6c9615 | With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must've looked pretty strange--a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. "How's it going?" I said. "I'll take the stairs." He hurried off." | Rick Riordan | ||
| cfd562f | Nike could start you two fighting easily." Percy gave her a sideways smile. "Yeah, we can't have another incident like in Kansas. I might kill my bro Jason." "Or I might kill my bro Percy," Jason said amiably. "Which proves my point," Annabeth said." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 470a168 | For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 6ce4539 | Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? | temptation | Margaret Atwood | |
| fe79191 | When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning--human meaning, that is--is defined by them. You have to admit that." | meaning | Margaret Atwood | |
| 31fd310 | The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds. | young-love lust | Margaret Atwood | |
| 09e0ddd | There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| a3129b2 | Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 42e7258 | You're falling for me like I'm falling for you. That's why you're pushing me so hard. | Katie McGarry | ||
| a2a6a45 | Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 4d8710f | L'inferno dei viventi non e qualcosa che sara; se ce n'e uno, e quello che e gia qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne parte fino al punto di non vederlo piu. Il secondo e rischioso ed esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non e inferno, e f.. | Italo Calvino | ||
| 39e18b0 | With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. | Italo Calvino | ||
| 49ae1db | We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b5e0b75 | Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 26ecf35 | To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in. | Milan Kundera | ||
| d15106d | Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. | Max Frisch | ||
| de88f37 | That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all | Nick Hornby | ||
| 0ed170f | After all this, I won't start to hate you. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b7686fd | It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3081abc | I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d3235ba | Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. | people | Haruki Murakami | |
| 3a68957 | Nothing is never nothing. It's always something. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5cd9b25 | No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7155659 | No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial. | Charles Frazier | ||
| e61b5df | The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. | drinks relaxation whisky whiskey enjoyment | James Joyce | |
| 73a301e | Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books. | Roald Dahl | ||
| bc210ca | We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please now and then Come and see us again, The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. "All you do is to look At a page in this book Because that's where we always will be. No book ever ends | Roald Dahl | ||
| 7af5b1a | And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. | hyoi | C.S. Lewis | |
| a4ee83d | I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog. | heaven love emeth further-up-and-further-in tash | C.S. Lewis | |
| f2d8c81 | Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. | reading writing philosophy digression wit | Ray Bradbury | |
| 911ba01 | For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... | fahrinheit jackets many bradbury so ray more dust destroyed nothing pages to person knowledge dead | Ray Bradbury | |
| 55887da | My gosh, if you're going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would've talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers! | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f81e1c0 | Elm BY SYLVIA PLATH I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. Is it the sea you hear in me, Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse. All night I shall gallop thus, impetuously, Till your head is a stone, your pillow a little t.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| e74ff36 | Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath. | John Updike | ||
| 549dd09 | I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected -- an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows. | shadow waiting | Marilynne Robinson | |
| d0d6ccc | She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time | smile | Ann Brashares | |
| b98c5bd | You look like you were chewed up by a wolf and shit down the wrong side of the mountain. What's wrong? | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a164c27 | Lovey-dovey bullshit. Now let me tell you about what happens when you betray everything you hold dear and the bitch doesn't return the favor. Oh, wait, you know that lesson already. The problem is you take the leap and you don't know until it's too late to pull back if you're going to land on a foam-covered mattress or jagged rocks where you lie impaled, slowly bleeding and wishing you'd just die already. (Jaden) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| cd883c6 | Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. | akri inspirational | Sherrilyn Kenyon |