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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6a885e6 | To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased. | love | C.S. Lewis | |
| 530c879 | One always feel better when one has made up one's mind. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| d870000 | We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it's finally me, where.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f392cf1 | Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts who finds heartmeat delicious but not rare who sucks the juices drop by drop and bloody-chinned | Alice Walker | ||
| 4d399a8 | Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets--as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and san.. | Anne Rice | ||
| 5e6342a | The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian) From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick) One day, Gaitor bait... (Kyrian) Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| bedbaed | A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c69d6d5 | I've spent my entire life listening to people tell me why I can't be loved and how I'm nothing but a worthless piece of shit. I always told myself that I didn't care, that I didn't need anyone else. It was a lie, you know. I do care and I want Kiara. If it costs me my life to be with her, it doesn't matter. I've already lived past my prime, anyway. I get up every morning with more pain in my joints than the day before. If I have to die, I'd.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9cf3c81 | I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it? | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| f2326f6 | There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| fff6ec6 | I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, "Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2901a61 | Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| 7dd3914 | He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. | literature haunting | Cormac McCarthy | |
| d9259ee | Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f4ef235 | We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely .. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 6df2225 | I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3697def | Listen Chica-" Carlos says when we're driving to my mom's store "don't call me that anymore" I tell him "what do you want me to call you, then?" I shrug "whatever. Just not Chica" Carlos holds his hand up "what do you want me from me? You want me to tell you lies? Okay. Kara, without you i'm nothin'. Kara, you own my heart and soul. Kara,, i love you. Is that what you to hear? "yes" "No guy who actually says those things really mean them" .. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 8e74e4a | Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 200bdf7 | Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5ab9627 | Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus | William Shakespeare | ||
| 1867db6 | No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and w.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| cc48bee | So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. | love sonnet-18 permanence | William Shakespeare | |
| 39a1101 | Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| eb05947 | I like stories of adventure. Especially if there's some kind of disaster involved." The eyebrow remains arched. I laugh. "I read the ones with happy endings, too." Josh gestures towards my shelves. "You read a lot." "Safer than going on a real adventure." Now he's the one who laughs. "Maybe." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 95fc530 | The moon is fat, but half of her is missing. A ruler-straight line divides her dark side from her light. She hangs low over the bustling Castro, noticeably earlier than the night before. Autumn is coming. For as long as I can remember, I've talked to the moon. Asked her for guidance. There's something deeply spiritual about her pale glow, her cratered surface, her waxing and waning. She wears a new dress every evening, yet she's always hers.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1231963 | We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children. | James Patterson | ||
| 00f34b2 | If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 822f124 | Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter." | Garth Nix | ||
| bd5421f | I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| ccee28a | The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after the long driveways of the time. The Spanish Inquisition was nothing more than an outbreak of questions such as "How far is it from here to Madrid?" "What do you call the matador's hat?" The War of the Roses t.. | Billy Collins | ||
| f9f5297 | But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain. | Billy Collins | ||
| 44801e4 | Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you f.. | soldiers | John Steinbeck | |
| 4d97342 | There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist | wisdom ignorance power | Dan Brown | |
| 0df5a92 | There's just no substitute for the truth. | Dan Brown | ||
| 5aa8d7f | When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| d2bd01f | In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love. | unconditional-love | Lisa See | |
| 2cf244a | Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. | thoughts darkness optimism subconscious perspective perception pessimism human-nature | Charles Dickens | |
| 94d8353 | Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 755ef45 | Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her." | thinking | Raymond Chandler | |
| 5d6b079 | The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 27f4e1f | The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4be7478 | A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 25cf192 | Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life. | humanity love self-giving | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 27c0c7b | Not entirely fair?" His voice became that of the inferno: a rushing, booming howl of icy evil that flew around the great cavern, as swift and cold as the Wendigo on skates. "I am Satan, also called Lucifer the Light Bearer..." Cabal winced. What was it about devils that they always had to give you their whole family history? "I was cast down from the presence of God himself into this dark, sulfurous pit and condemned to spend eternity here-.. | humor johannes necromancer devil | Jonathan L. Howard |