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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 enjoyment relaxation whiskey whisky | 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. | emeth further-up-and-further-in heaven love tash | C.S. Lewis | |
| aec810a | It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. | literary-quotes strange unusual | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 87cf925 | I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7805123 | I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 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." | meditation ocean pulse waves | Tamora Pierce | |
| 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. | jace malec | 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." | jace-wayland smartmouth valentine-morgenstern | 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 |