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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a4f2aa | the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d3c6670 | Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 60e5130 | What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. | man | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 93788cb | I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? | the-sign-of-four sherlock-holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 74ecf71 | I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being. | Nora Ephron | ||
| ce2c5cd | I can help Katy," Blake wheezed. "Good enough for you?" "What?" I demanded, dropping my hands. "Yeah, see, you saying her name alone makes me want to kill you. So, no, not good enough for me." -- | onyx jennifer-l-armentrout lux katy-and-daemon katy-swartz | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 1996c3f | I would know if a part of my heart was gone. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ccc16a0 | All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 72f0065 | We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. | pain improvement growth invention | H.G. Wells | |
| 65483eb | Percy muttered. 'I want to drown her.' 'Be patient, water boy.' 'Don't call me water boy. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 4b83d57 | You're probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan? But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other's abilities. We could anticipate each other's moves. I might have felt awkward and nervous about being her boyfriend, but fighting with her? That came naturally. Hmm...that sounded wrong. Oh, well. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7a56593 | Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills. | shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 0dc06db | There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 112ba50 | Beth had been both wrong and right. Echo couldn't hurt anyone, especially when she seemed so breakable herself. But the need I felt to be the one to keep the world from shattering her only confirmed Beth's theory. I was falling for her and I was fucked. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 91ab236 | I know crazy when I see it." The moment the words flew out of my mouth I regretted them. Sometimes when you see the line, you think it's a good idea to cross it--until you do.~Noah" | Katie McGarry | ||
| ae467b0 | The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was beginning.. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 53c1087 | It's hard to feel desire when you don't feel desirable | love-yourself self-image self-esteem | Christine Feehan | |
| 2d38956 | And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 5c74210 | That's the place to get to--nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere. | travel wandering wanderlust | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 411c223 | I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 5a21e50 | If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story? | cruelty | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 846b7bb | Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms. | science factory-farming veganism vegetarianism meat | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 8234b67 | At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. | writing | Ian McEwan | |
| aa1c9a8 | Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 4ce37c8 | We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers. | Milan Kundera | ||
| b864418 | Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first. | Kim Gruenenfelder | ||
| a553a3e | Note to self: Do not under any circumstances fall in love again. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 6b03c2c | You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? | philosophy sister | Jodi Picoult | |
| 5b83d31 | That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c2efb77 | I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday," he said softly. "Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away." He shook his head, still gazing up the hill, a faraway look in his eyes. "I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay. He pulled his eyes away from the cottage and smiled bri.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 945c680 | All get what they want; they do not always like it. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| d72d234 | I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..." | spirituality life | C.S. Lewis | |
| 126e10a | No people find each other more absurd than lovers | lover relationships people love | C.S. Lewis | |
| 5347af1 | Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful." -- | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 10602ad | We must take arms each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory. Remember that pianist who said that if he did not pratice every day he would know, if he did not practice for two days, the critics would know, after three days, his audiences would know. A variation of this is true for writers. No.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 429f24d | But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 6157be5 | There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, | Emily Dickinson | ||
| e2bcb71 | When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. | future the-bell-jar grow-up sylvia-plath | Sylvia Plath | |
| ee00d99 | Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. | silence | Sylvia Plath | |
| 02f78a4 | A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| df57f16 | Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time! | Anne Rice | ||
| 4ff3d54 | On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. | loneliness life | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 6b2c2cf | Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b4f01ae | But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed | Sherrilyn Kenyon |