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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 653ad0c | The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats. | the-pilgrimage paulo-coelho | 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 the-catcher-in-the-rye phonies | 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... | numb cold | 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 | ||
| d60511e | Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat." | waves pulse meditation ocean | Tamora Pierce | |
| 77b444f | Everywhere I look, I see something holy. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 18439f7 | The trouble with life was that you didn't get a chance to practice before doing it for real. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 30e16c2 | Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e4fbe24 | There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| acdcdc2 | Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson" | knitting smoking sarcasm | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 4bd1d3a | This is a kill-or-be-killed scenario, leech," Regin the Radiant, a glowing-skinned millennium-old swordswoman, told Ellie in a baleful tone. "So raise your weapon and prepare for your end. 'Cause I'm about to take your head." Ellie yawned. Ten days of this was getting old. "Girl, I don't wanna play video games anymore." -- | regin lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| 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 women teaching | 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 | |
| f3c5444 | Be happy without picking flaws. | happiness | Victor Hugo | |
| 331f57a | Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at t.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 690160c | Well fiddle dee dee! | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| b69fe7f | The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? | revolution fight voice oppression | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| e090901 | They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, 'they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.' Lancelot smiled bitterly. 'Perhaps .. | religion salvation | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 61dd709 | For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. | joy sacrifice love | George Eliot | |
| 55a96be | Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears," Gram said. "If you have three or four -or more - chickabiddies, you're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. You have room left over - empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up." | Sharon Creech | ||
| 06b5e63 | It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." | life nightmare | Ned Vizzini | |
| a68b345 | And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 894c38b | You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 32bce32 | I am hope. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 06b8462 | There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2f86793 | Goodbyes are overrated. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 837f4e0 | A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward. | jack-reacher service honor | Lee Child |