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| 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-esteem self-image | 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. | factory-farming meat science veganism vegetarianism | 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..." | life spirituality | C.S. Lewis | |
| 126e10a | No people find each other more absurd than lovers | love lover people relationships | 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 | ||
| a11bf49 | The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a67204c | Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, | Dr. Seuss | ||
| f40e768 | Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6fee478 | Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection. | inspirational | Brené Brown | |
| eaad675 | Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands. | Brené Brown | ||
| 3dfb0dd | The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change. | change defiance history opposition self-assurance | Howard Zinn | |
| 3977457 | In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims. | Howard Zinn | ||
| a4cd0bc | Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. | figures-of-speech irony | Trevanian | |
| bfa7591 | my memory is reasonably good--unlike yours, dear sir!" "Mine is erratic," he said imperturbably. "I remember only what interests me." | memory | Georgette Heyer | |
| f3e4af1 | I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass green? What is a dream? How deep can you dig a hole? When is the world's birthday? Why do we have toes? Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else: 'What did you expect the Moon to be, square?' Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question.. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 536e596 | I'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid. | Sara Zarr | ||
| bd1029b | Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like fr.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c3f3051 | Don't talk." Alec gestured at him with an expression of vague disgust. "Every time I look at you, I keep remembering coming in here and seeing you draped all over my sister." Jace sat up. "I didn't hear about this." "Oh, come on -" said Simon. "Simon, you're blushing," observed Jace. "And you're a vampire and almost never blush, so this better be really juicy. And weird. Were bicycles involved in some kinky way? Vaccum cleaners? Umbrellas?".. | cassandra-clare city-of-heavenly-fire isabelle-lightwood jace-lightwood simon-lewis tmi | Cassandra Clare | |
| c8cdc0d | You're a disaster for us, Clary! You're a mundane, you'll always be one, you'll never be a Shadowhunter! You don't know how to think like we do, think about what's best for everyone-- all you think about is yourself! But there's a war now, or there will be, and I don't have time or the inclination to follow around after you, trying to make sure you don't get us killed! Go home, Clary. Go home! | clary-fray hate jace-wayland love the-mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 423979d | That's all true, but I'm not doing it." Raphael looked incredulous. "Why not?" The words exploded out of Simon. "Are you kidding me? Because you have never done one single thing for me in the entire time since I became a vampire. Instead you have done your level best to make my life miserable and then end it. So-if you want it in vampire language-it affords me great pleasure, my liege, to say to you now: Hell, no." -- | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| dd78e3e | Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me. | cassandra clare clockwork herondale jem parabatai prince will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 013bf4c | Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| aef6fbd | And I suppose you know who Magnus' father is?" Luke said. "I paid a lot of money once to find it out," Raphael said." | magnus-father mystery raphael-santiago secret | Cassandra Clare | |
| 78509fd | Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. "Come and get me." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 6a59680 | Maybe one day it will be just you and me, my little blueberry," Magnus said conversationally. "But not for a long, long time. We'll take care of him, you and I. Won't we?" Max Lightwood made a happy burbling sound that Magnus took as agreement." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| cf200c7 | You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question. | Toni Morrison | ||
| fe7f925 | Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8832e52 | I've been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don't give kissing their whole attention. They can't. No matter how hard they try parts of their minds are on something else. Missing the last bus--or their chances of making the gal--or their own techniques in kissing--or maybe worry about jobs, or money, or will husband or papa or the neighbors catch on. Mike doesn't have technique . . . but when Mike kisses you he isn't doing anyt.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 312056d | This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 3a1ef94 | Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. | love media relationships | Chuck Klosterman |