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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 23b512a | The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same. | wisdom | Anonymous | |
| 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. | reading classics | Charles Bukowski | |
| 05a770c | Why do you insist upon destroying yourself? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 8db293b | One way isn't better than the other; they're just different. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 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. | heaven freedom | 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. | magic-bleeds ilona-andrews | Ilona Andrews | |
| 9b7d872 | the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 03db6f8 | You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself. | Walt Whitman | ||
| f39075e | You're much shorter than my mom." "Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle. "That's no way to talk to a vampire." "Bloodsucking brat." "Better" he said." | doctor-mills michael-glass ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine shane-collins vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 4175019 | Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| e09b089 | Question your tea spoons. | Georges Perec | ||
| 4f35a05 | No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected. | Lynda Barry | ||
| 173fe41 | Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within | Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| 68b69dd | So just tell me what you like on the menu, and we'll negotiate." All that is required is that you taste what is ordered. You do not have to eat it." No, no more of this tasting shit. I've gained weight. I never gain weight." You have gained four pounds, so I am told. Though I have searched diligently for this phantom four pounds and cannot find them. It brings your weight up to a grand total of one hundred and ten pounds, correct?" That's r.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7cbe346 | Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 24551c6 | More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3c6c83c | The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics. | Sam Harris | ||
| 14c8987 | The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are. | religion | Sam Harris | |
| 3be19c9 | Ha esperancas que e loucura ter. Pois eu digo-te que se nao fossem essas ja eu teria desistido da vida. | José Saramago | ||
| 9f9f685 | ndm nlHZ ywman, 'nn lnstTy` f`l shy jyd wnf` fyjb 'n nmtlk lshj`@ ky nGdr hdh l`lm bbsT@ | José Saramago | ||
| 6a30958 | The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities. | responsibility life | Richard Bach | |
| ccc53d2 | I'm sick of you cheating on me with everyone who has a dick | tempted | P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast | |
| 62def4a | God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron) | Kim Harrison | ||
| bac52c7 | Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may le.. | satan | Arthur Koestler | |
| 930b861 | How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift.. | perfection love imperfection | Thomas Hardy | |
| 3a7e72e | Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"..." | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | ||
| f765a29 | WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It ye.. | scene-iii henry-v | William Shakespeare | |
| 53aa323 | Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This .. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 6692860 | We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. | Cassandra Clare |