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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0583263 | How do you know, when you think blue -- when you say blue -- that you are talking about the same blue as anyone else? You cannot get a grip on blue. Blue is the sky, the sea, a god's eye, a devil's tail, a birth, a strangulation, a virgin's cloak, a monkey's ass. It's a butterfly, a bird, a spicy joke, the saddest song, the brightest day. Blue is sly, slick, it slides into the room sideways, a slippery trickster. This is a story about the c.. | color | Christopher Moore | |
| fe4872c | Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 44b3add | We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 8aced01 | I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. | science observation evidence | Isaac Asimov | |
| d7b7c7c | It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. | Jules Verne | ||
| a1014d2 | Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did... | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 173ac7f | It's inappropriate for the queen of the dead to be afraid of ghosts. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 6a75b18 | The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on--only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horr.. | heaven death life obituary meaning-of-life eternal-life atheism despair hell | Christopher Hitchens | |
| a0f4116 | After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible. | october fall | Elizabeth George Speare | |
| 02d467c | It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much. | Graham Greene | ||
| 92c1356 | I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 4d407b3 | It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world. | people san-francisco tales-of-the-city places hiding | Oscar Wilde | |
| 5a93a91 | Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 207eff2 | Cecily, are you doing?" Will demanded, interrupting Gideon; he knew he sounded like a distracted parent, but he didn't care. Cecily has slid her blade into her belt and appeared to be trying to climb one of the small yew trees inside the first row of hedges. "Now is not the time for climbing trees!" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 613862b | Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f7eb552 | He's not here." "Not here like he just popped around the corner to the bodega for a six-pack of Diet Coke and a box of Krispy Kremes, or not here like..." | clary-fray | Cassandra Clare | |
| 32cfc9b | Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death' "Ours is stronger than that," Clary whispered, remembering how she had brought him back. And this time, when his eyes darkened, she reached up and drew him down to her mouth." | jace-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3899be6 | There she is." Alec spotted his sister and waved her over, looking relieved. "Over here. And watch out for the phouka." "Watch out for the phouka?" Jace repeated, glancing toward a thin brown-skinned man in a green paisley vest who eyed Isabelle thoughtfully as she walked by. "He pinched me when I passed him earlier," Alec said stiffly. "In a highly personal area." "I hate to break it to you, but if he's interested in your highly persona.. | tmi city-of-bones jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 79cda49 | Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ec8e9ff | Goddamn it," Jace shouted over the noise. "I hate it when Simon is right." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| eaa091b | Will is... difficult," Jem said. "But family is difficult. If I didn't think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn't say it was. And one can build one's own family. I know you feel inhuman, and as if you were set apart, away from life and love, but..." His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure. He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care." | family love jem-carstairs | Cassandra Clare | |
| faf29b3 | For love is as strong as death. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8d5a572 | Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 97ccbda | If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 9d740ce | Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived." | love forever | Mary Balogh | |
| 46fac9e | Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. [...] But love bears all things. [...] Love itself is pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive. | tales-of-love-and-marriage | Joseph Campbell | |
| 1312259 | I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing | J.R. Ward | ||
| ae69a2c | When order in study was finally reestablished, Wrath looked downright nasty. "Next one of you mouthy assholes makes me pound my desk again, I'm throwing you the fuck out." On that note, he reached down, picked up the cowering ninety-pounds retriever, and settled George in his lap. "You're freaking out my dog and it's pissing me off." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 4866b63 | I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it-our life-hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly. | death life inspirational | Marcel Proust | |
| 747d3d1 | Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick). | Georges Bataille | ||
| e7964b5 | Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes." | John Green | ||
| a78cf78 | But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying? | John Green | ||
| d807636 | It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. aa | John Green | ||
| 8292f6b | All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. | John Green | ||
| e0727e9 | Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? | writing-life | David Lindsay-Abaire | |
| ac318da | I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| aab63b9 | I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable." "How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow." | romance weight | Lisa Kleypas | |
| aa31dbb | Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 0fea7a1 | Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it. | society | Michel Faber | |
| 155701e | Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. | love tobias-eaton tris | Veronica Roth | |
| 2b91375 | Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities. | love possibility date tris tobias destruction | Veronica Roth | |
| 6d350e2 | How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for? | Veronica Roth | ||
| 6582182 | We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life--they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know t.. | Gene Wolfe | ||
| bbcf530 | Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary. | Julian Barnes |