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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ebabc70 | You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take it back without asking? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8a4001d | My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman. | teachers | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| e8addc8 | I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 6cc6748 | She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2ba2f6e | To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. | bell hooks | ||
| 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 .. | intelligence flowers-for-algernon | 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.. | loneliness independence youth fear | 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 | |
| 449d2cc | What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman. | David Gemmell | ||
| 4e66619 | Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities. | fidelity | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 7332d5d | Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7d2f462 | God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble. | strength | Anonymous | |
| 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. | heartbreak heart | 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. | morality justice | 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-people rich-people poor | 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. | universe poetry | 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 .. | magic-slays julie kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 508cb11 | Who is that?" "Your replacement." "You replaced me with a shaved poodle?" "He's got mad skills." -- | grendel kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| e6dc651 | re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body. [From the preface to Leaves Grass] | learning truth wisdom soul | Walt Whitman | |
| 1f760b3 | Oh, come on, just this once," Eve said. "Protects your neck. As in your arteries and veins? That's kind of crucial, right?" "Thanks for the thought, but it doesn't go with my shoes." "You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now?" "No, I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you, Mikey." Michael, straight-faced, said, "He's got a point, because I would d.. | michael-glass morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 6b068c4 | Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go." "Ooh, me, too," Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. "What? It's what girls do. Get over it." | morganville-vampires gender-stereotypes | Rachel Caine | |
| cac3fd0 | In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I'm a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. 'I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,' they say. 'Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she's done to our family.' Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh's loft. 'You will .. | soap-operas | David Sedaris | |
| 8461b30 | Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat." | Christopher Moore |