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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2e23bcd | It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you. | worry | Stephenie Meyer | |
| e24f354 | How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. | humanity life | Paul Bowles | |
| 306ebfa | We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 2c0f53b | At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall. I dove. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 4e1511f | I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been. | poetry | Robert Frost | |
| 4e2dcc9 | Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| dcf5db0 | People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are. | stupidity | Richard Ford | |
| c31ae25 | He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f1d812c | Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 3548e43 | Being brave is not as easy as it looks. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| f872f68 | Oh, and just so you know, before we go out to the field we all get into a huddle and yell 'Go Queers!' really loud. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 166669b | Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. | selflessness need | Arthur Miller | |
| 50d343b | Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. | shakespeare othello | William Shakespeare | |
| c2b37d2 | To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their delicate vision of that other time, madmen will justify their condition with touching loyalty, and surround it with a thousand distractive schemes. These schemes, in turn, drive them deeper and deeper into the darkness and light (which is their mortification and their reward), and confront them with .. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 8ea22d9 | That guys. Sideburns. You like him?" My back squirms. "You've asked me that before." "What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been here?" It takes a moment to consider the question. "It's not a matter of how feel," I say at last. "I'm interested, but ... I don't know if he's still interested in me." St. Clair edges closer. "Does he still call?" "Yeah. I mean, not often. But yes." "Right. Right, .. | relationships st-clair anna-oliphant | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 5f955af | By the way'[Gabriel] said,' everyone else had better keep out of here. After you spend so much time in lockup, you get to like your space. You get kind of territorial. I wouldn't want anybody to get hurt.' ... Gabriel gave [Kaitlyn] a long, measuring look. Then he flashed a brilliant, unsettling smile. 'You can come in any time you like | the-strange-power | L.J. Smith | |
| c3a9b04 | If you lose, there's the devil to pay. | L.J. Smith | ||
| a111bb0 | Tell me something, old friend: why are you fighting?" What other reason could there be?" Colonel Gerineldo Marquez answered. "For the great Liberal party." You're lucky because you know why," he answered. "As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride." That's bad," Colonel Gerineldo Marquez said. Colonel Aureliano Buendia was amused at his alarm. "Naturally," he said. "But in any case, it's .. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ba595c3 | She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red dr.. | life philosophy inspirational individualism | Ayn Rand | |
| 2f40e54 | And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. | inspirational | Ayn Rand | |
| e9a2046 | I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 103e574 | How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard. | Philip Roth | ||
| b177bdd | You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse. | Philip Roth | ||
| ac015ae | Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2125f5e | Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth." | Gary Chapman | ||
| 7d781f2 | No love is greater than that of a father for His son. | father-and-son son | Dan Brown | |
| 4d9455a | Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards? | Dan Brown | ||
| 0fbe71d | Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 3d918ed | The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. | work love tasks humble | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 97e83da | The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart. | spiritual | Ted Dekker | |
| 9f8ac70 | It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 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 .. | hermione birds 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?" | remus-lupin funny-quotes | 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 |