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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. | need selflessness | Arthur Miller | |
| 50d343b | Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. | othello shakespeare | 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, .. | anna-oliphant relationships st-clair | 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 | ||
| ced79c5 | It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran..." | humor | William Goldman | |
| 47f44e0 | Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say t.. | William Goldman | ||
| 56909a8 | The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one." | romance | Hannah Arendt | |
| e5763f2 | I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep. | Harper Lee | ||
| 597f5da | There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it - you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face. | David Levithan | ||
| abdc8a3 | Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 151d0d8 | As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry. | people | Charles Bukowski | |
| 7d09497 | I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. | classics reading | Charles Bukowski | |
| 05a770c | Why do you insist upon destroying yourself? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| c00b13b | This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 4f3453d | She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 7582c93 | Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. | Bill Watterson | ||
| af3e245 | Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed! | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d02ab13 | I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 7adb745 | Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other the good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless. We might almost say that in a society without such good things we should hardly have any t.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 5774deb | He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven. | freedom heaven | Philip Pullman | |
| ba57c55 | I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet. | ilona-andrews magic-bleeds | Ilona Andrews | |
| 72177c3 | And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| b9d2a97 | Oh, Brother. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 8db293b | One way isn't better than the other; they're just different. | Emily Giffin | ||
| acfa468 | Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. | leadership teamwork trust | Patrick Lencioni | |
| f6def22 | You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 23f429c | I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true .. | eat-pray-love elizabeth-gilbert life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 99c58d9 | Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| b286b07 | Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 21b08f5 | And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f02aad8 | The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another. | George Bernard Shaw |