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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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 permanence sonnet-18 | 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 | ||
| f5eb25d | From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time. | heart heartbreak | Heather O'Neill | |
| 034db93 | I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference. | justice morality | Harper Lee | |
| b948e0b | Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?" | Harper Lee | ||
| b87ddee | Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why. | death life wisdom | Glen Cook | |
| 469fcad | Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true. | dreams poor poor-people rich-people | Glen Cook | |
| 82b326e | I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. | David Levithan | ||
| ce3ba65 | I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late. | David Levithan | ||
| 1c20d13 | encroach, The first three nights we spent together, I couldn't sleep. I wasn't used to your breathing, your feet on my legs, your weight in my bed. In truth, I still sleep better when I'm alone. But now I allow that sleep isn't always the most important thing. | David Levithan | ||
| 61e7500 | Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted and celebrated. The second - the story of our quest for love from the world - is a more secret and shameful tale. If mentioned, it tends to be in caustic, mocking terms, as something of interest chiefly to env.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| b935453 | Do not ignore it. Fuck it. Cry your heart out. Then fuck it some more. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 23840d8 | Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny-side up- you are the ever-expanding universe to me. | poetry universe | Kate DiCamillo | |
| aaf10ca | It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring! | Bill Watterson | ||
| 9851cda | High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 94fca3f | Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| affe8e9 | The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. | Colum McCann | ||
| 2929b2e | If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e80a0cf | I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| fe3e81b | Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 55413a8 | It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7a82c06 | They really kicked me out?" "Refunded the tuition and everything." Julie blinked a couple of times coming to grips with this tidbit. "So what happens now?" "I expect you'll be a bum. Homeless and jobless begging on the street for a crust of bread..." "Kate." "Oh, alright, I suppose if you come by the office once in a while I'll give you a sandwich. You can squat in the office on the floor when it gets too cold outside. We can even get .. | julie kate magic-slays | Ilona Andrews | |
| 508cb11 | Who is that?" "Your replacement." "You replaced me with a shaved poodle?" "He's got mad skills." -- | grendel kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 623b441 | Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 12087b9 | Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending." | humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 32e5cf3 | Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 419f814 | But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligent and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn...Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love...Intelligence .. | flowers-for-algernon intelligence | Daniel Keyes | |
| 6696532 | It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and.. | fear independence loneliness youth | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 013fa9a | Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations. | Daphne Du Maurier | ||
| 437bfc4 | That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded wit.. | George Eliot | ||
| 15b0a10 | For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. | George Eliot | ||
| 3954f1f | Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. | sanity | George Eliot |