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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f678d53 | Sober, gainfully employed, and physically secure once again, Kevin began to relax. His confidence slowly returned. For the first time since the onset of his blindness, he let his guard down and a crack in his carefully constructed veneer formed | hope inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes light sober sober-reflection sobriety-courage | Traci Medford-Rosow | |
| f3d6a87 | As Kevin climbed the three flights of stairs to his apartment, his brain formulated a vague plan of action. He could not have explained it to anyone or even to himself in coherent sentences. But the outline was there in Kevin's subconscious. It would not only change his life, but many others, as well | call-to-action hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude life | Traci Medford-Rosow | |
| 4fb6d20 | I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature? | inspirational spirit | Gordon B. Hinckley | |
| 09fc36d | One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble. | sarcasm | Terry Pratchett | |
| d501bd4 | Words are the litmus paper of the mind. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 17222e7 | Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn't entirely there. YOU HAVEn'T HEARD Og' THE BAY Og' MAnTE, HAVE YOU? he said. "No, sir," said Mort. FAMOUs sHIPWRECK THERE. "Was there?" THERE WILL BE, said Death, Ig' I CAn g'InD THE DAMn PLACE." | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| a8b0a2c | If a man truly loves,....He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| c593e81 | What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible? | Richard Matheson | ||
| 633f9f6 | There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. | literature reading words | Richard Flanagan | |
| a7fb570 | Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea. | Dylan Thomas | ||
| b4268bf | Hey, you've still got your endangered hymen. Which means you'll make it to closing credits - I'm s.o.l. | kresley-cole poison-princess | Kresley Cole | |
| 8d842a6 | Matthew, exactly how psychic are you? So psychic that other psychics should be called Mattics. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 069b9cd | The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?" Yes." My Imagination." I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination." Roland and Eddie" | gunslinger roland the-dark-tower | Stephen King | |
| ede9298 | Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks | Stephen King | ||
| eca8f15 | A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death. | preservation suicide | Virginia Woolf | |
| 0867a6c | First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. | time | Virginia Woolf | |
| 4f588e9 | I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble. | Anne Frank | ||
| 79c9e23 | We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again... | nana | Ai Yazawa | |
| 5a83ed4 | Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 792db1d | We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev the.. | truth | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 3b56489 | You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me. | John Fowles | ||
| dc295a5 | Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland" | loyalty mistress render | Judith McNaught | |
| 4421a68 | A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| fbb76c4 | And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow." | Norton Juster | ||
| db95b07 | I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care. | sarcasm | Maureen Johnson | |
| f0a518e | The parts of me that I love the most are the parts that belong to her. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 0591ea0 | It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b26260d | I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks. | marriage | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 9273b8a | Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. | life | Isabel Allende | |
| ec14c22 | Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey. | religion | Yann Martel | |
| a15b6c9 | Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations." said Hermione. "Don't pretend you didn't see him. He wasn't exactly hiding it, was -- ?" The door behind them burst open. To Harry's horror, Ron came in, laughing, pulling Lavender by the hand. "Oh," he said, drawing up short at the sight of Harry and Hermione. "Oops!" said Lavender, and she backed out of the room, giggling. There was a horrible, swelling, billowing silence. Hermione was staring .. | birds hermione ron-weasley tension | J.K. Rowling | |
| 964e15b | Excellent," said Lupin, looking up as Tonks and Harry entered. "We've got about a minute, I think. We should probably get out into the garden so we're ready. Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry --" "They won't," said Harry. "That you're safe --" "That'll just depress them." "-- and you'll see them next summer." "Do I have to?" | funny-quotes remus-lupin | J.K Rowling | |
| 46d274f | Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?" Ron: "Throw it away and punch him on the nose." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d2a26ac | Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing. | ralph | Colleen McCullough | |
| f62a638 | And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 97ff47c | That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned. | reality | Nicholas Sparks | |
| e4328b3 | But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 67c72ed | Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 25065b6 | Fortunate are those who take the first steps. | risks success | Paulo Coelho | |
| abda502 | And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1193bad | When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went with them a couple of times, but I cut it out. In the first place, I don't enjoy seeing him in that crazy cemetery. Surrounded by dead guys and tombstones and all. It wasn't too bad when the sun was out, but twice--twice--we were there when it started to rain. It was awful. It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on .. | holden | J.D. Salinger | |
| 6966e76 | When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 38496f3 | I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 1a13190 | No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me. | Bret Easton Ellis |