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| 8326d5f | I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d075125 | I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 69abfd2 | Tako obicno biva. Oni koje zelimo da vidimo ne dolaze u casovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najvise ocekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih. I nasoj radosti zbog ponovnog videnja tada treba malo vremena da se digne s dna, gde je potisnuta, i pojavi na povrsini. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 66bc884 | Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own --" "That's enough, Phineas," said Dumbledore." | funny headmasters phineas-nigellus principals students | J.K. Rowling | |
| 578c06f | Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1a78626 | Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly. It was Harry's turn to laugh. "Yeah, right!" he said. "I will give you this - prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3c60335 | Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d8eb7e2 | Please don't ask me to go with you, because if you do, I'll go. Please don't ask me to tell Frank about us, because i'll do that, too. Please don't ask me to give up my responsibilities or break up my family; I love you, and if you love me, too, then you just can't ask me to do these things. Because I don't trust myself enough to say no. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 571e791 | Don't think there are no second chances. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5dd4598 | It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fd07c37 | Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember. | true-love inspiration love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 6d5051e | The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4cc3be8 | There's much more. There's all that goes beyond - all ... that is Elsewhere - and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 495cc83 | Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers. | Libba Bray | ||
| 6be6721 | Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. | good-and-evil patriotism | Ian Fleming | |
| df5cf5a | Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart's revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self's own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they wer.. | humanity love | Jonathan Franzen | |
| c7d67fb | Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7520e21 | you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1edd993 | It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 023877f | They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 8473843 | Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way--I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 77472a9 | Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls, the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends. The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth and light, all t.. | responsibility intelligence equilibrium | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f18ae92 | To hear, one must be silent. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 96243e6 | Get ready to unleash hell. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f5586be | She dared a look at Rowan, whose face remained carefully blank, but saw the words there anyway. You wicked, clever fox. And here you were, thinking the red hair was just for vanity. I shall never doubt again. | rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| eb304ca | Alone with Rolfe, Celaena raised her sword. "Celaena Sardothien, at your service." The pirate was still staring at her, his face pale with rage. "How dare you deceive me?" She sketched a bow. "I did nothing of the sort. I told you I was beautiful." | celaena-sardothien sassiness | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d33f89b | It's a shame," I said, the words nearly gobbled up by the sound of the city music. "That others in Prythian don't know. A shame that you let them think the worst." He took a step back, his wings beating the air like mighty drums. "As long as the people who matter most know the truth, I don't care about the rest." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 64fbe11 | I'm surprised there aren't more mirrors in this house, since you seem to love looking at yourself so much." Azriel" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4db6071 | While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending.. | nutrition | Michael Pollan | |
| 6f258ae | Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary thi.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 83658cf | The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually, it does. People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for c.. | myth wonder humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 65ae590 | It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. | humorous life inspirational | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6485a8a | That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a6e195e | It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so m.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e5dfa1d | He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there. | home | Terry Pratchett | |
| 18ec454 | Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| efe7208 | I leaned against his side, his irritation oddly comforting. After a moment he grudgingly put his arm around me. The deep quiet was already settling back upon the grove, as if all the fire and rage we'd brought could make only a brief interruption in its peace. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 95f56bd | For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 9b0fc17 | When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain. | Stephen King | ||
| dd60ebb | True sorrow is as rare as true love. | sorrow love | Stephen King | |
| ca0ca7c | She was a monster, but she was my monster. | mothers monsters | Jeanette Winterson | |
| a321133 | In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 24c52d0 | Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 90224b0 | Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception. | Jeanette Winterson |