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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 50d9dc8 | One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. | evolution science natural-selection | Charles Darwin | |
| 66a33f7 | Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it. | Jane Green | ||
| 65bfa36 | He says presents aren't important, but I think they are - not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you. | David Levithan | ||
| 541ef94 | love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm. | Alain de Botton | ||
| f9f34c6 | Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe) | Edith Hamilton | ||
| 6bf98aa | And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that | Emily Giffin | ||
| 360d977 | A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell thro' all its regions. A Dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A Horse misus'd upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood. | William Blake | ||
| b4181c9 | Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 317aabe | God take care of him, because he's my past and my future | avi how-to-ruin jew | Simone Elkeles | |
| 2fa7f71 | Childhood is for spoiling adulthood. | Bill Watterson | ||
| c544c29 | Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. | trick | Bill Watterson | |
| 755938e | I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you'll see what I mean. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3e06abd | That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 2c4d681 | Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 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 | ||
| 0b09867 | States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas. | humor gay-lesbian homosexual | David Sedaris | |
| cc4a21c | I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars. | stars on-the-road | Jack Kerouac | |
| 2498e46 | While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyo.. | faith religion belief dogma | Sam Harris | |
| 81559ef | While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. | Jules Verne | ||
| 35daaa3 | There is a deep power in words that speak the truth | P.C. and Kristin Cast | ||
| c17af04 | How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?" His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. "You'll see her again. She's with Nyx now. She'll either wait for you in the Goddess's meadow, or she'll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end." | P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast | ||
| 0cc5062 | Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| e73b1f8 | But you, fine sir." John Miller clapped Dexter on the shoulder, a bit unsteadily. "You have problems of your own." "This is true," Dexter replied, nodding. "The women," John Miller sighed. Dexter wiped a hand over his face, and glanced down the road. "The women. Indeed, dear squire, they perplex me as well." "Ah, the fair Remy," John Miller said grandly, and I felt a flush run up my face. Lissa, in the front seat, put a hand to her mouth. ".. | Sarah Dessen | ||
| 75c8861 | So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1f1b916 | A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself. | Clive Barker | ||
| 933d226 | Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| d8018eb | We all move uneasily within our restraints. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| b8f0429 | I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1bf28bb | It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that... Magnus. | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| cf505aa | Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong. | malec jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 56ec194 | Mother," Alec's voice as he interrupted his mother was firm, implacable, and not unkind. "Father. There's something I have to tell you." he smiled at them. "I'm seeing someone." Robert Lightwood looked at his son with some exasperation. "Alec," he said. "This is hardly the time." "Yes, it is. This is important. You see, I'm not just seeing anyone." Words seemed to be pouring out of Alec in a torrent, while his parents looked on in confusion.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2cc7c88 | Yes," Jace said, unable to help himself, "I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water water supply - I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe." | smartmouth valentine-morgenstern jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4844e13 | I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b1de10b | He has many things I haven't got," said Jace. "Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination." -Jace about Simon, pg. 331-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a02c825 | Did you think I was helping you out of the goodness of my heart? Or am I just the only warlock you know?" (Magnus) ... "No," he said now, "but you the only warlock we know who happens to be dating a friend of ours." (Jace) For a moment everyone stared at him-Alec in sheer horror, Magnus un astonished anger, and Clary and Simon in surprise. It was Alec who spoke first, his voice shaking. "Why would you say something like that?" Jace looked.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d5f7809 | I didn't know you were bringing the mundane." His blue eyes flicked uneasily over Simon. "That's what I like about you people," said Simon. "You always make me feel so welcome." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 477bdb8 | The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 3b55658 | Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 07d6785 | Jules: Do you knwo why I'm sure? Because when this universe was born, when it blasted into existence in fire and glory, everything that would ever exist was created. Our souls are mad of that fire and glory, of the atoms of it, the fragments of stars. Everyone's are, but I believe ours, yours and mine, are made from the dust of the same star. That's why we've always been drawn to each other like magnets, all our lives. All the pieces of us .. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 076af91 | I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2fc579a | He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back. | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 982e248 | It's the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| abdf009 | He's an honest politician--he stays bought. | Robert A. Heinlein |