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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f6c4c6b | Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 08951f5 | The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. | willful-ignorance | Ayn Rand | |
| 766eb84 | Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, | power timing waiting | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 0bb7cb6 | April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. | cruelty poetry seasons weather | T.S. Eliot | |
| c4aea52 | L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything." | jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7e81185 | But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. | salvation | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 05de2db | I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be. | love tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 06dd997 | Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 296aece | As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru. | magnus-bane magnus-banned-from-peru | Cassandra Clare | |
| c33dc25 | To weep is to make less the depth of grief. | grief sorrow | William Shakespeare | |
| f410bc2 | If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. | inspirational | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0d650a9 | Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 5114ee8 | Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that could be because I've got an eighteen year-old boyfriend with a stamina rune and she doesn't." Alec sputtered. "As the person being objectified, I ... object to that description of me." | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| ba80950 | You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you" - he laughed soundlessly and without any humor - "to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what want to do." Clary's breath caught. "You said you just wanted to be my brother from now on." "I lied," he said." | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 17ea9bf | Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 99ef1fa | The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. | life movies | Terry Pratchett | |
| c615830 | Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart," Valentine's voice was soft. "One simple motion. Nothing you haven't done before." Jace met his father's stare with a level gaze. "I saw Agramon," he said. "It had your face." "You Agramon?" The Soul-Sword glittered as Valentine moved toward his son. "And you lived?" "I killed it." "You killed the Demon of Fear, but you won't kill a single vampire, not even at my o.. | ethics fear jace-wayland loyalty simon-lewis valentine-morgenstern vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| 524216e | At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too. | John Green | ||
| 61171d9 | All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book. | guilt plagiarism | Rick Riordan | |
| f395e53 | Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| dfe3610 | In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. | compassion generosity gratitude service | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| b033f6d | The throne rumbled. A wave of gale-force anger slammed into me. The voice stopped abruptly, The anger retreated, which was a good thing, because just those two words had almost blasted my mind to shreds. My fathers voice was still angry but more controlled. "I'm sorry, Father," I said. "I needed to get your attention." " | poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| 23d7e1e | In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 884b602 | And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. | god human inspirational mere-christianity religious slavery c-s-lewis | C.S. Lewis | |
| aa3412f | Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. | futility hopelessness life | William Shakespeare | |
| 6345993 | Google' is not a synonym for 'research'. | lost-symbol research | Dan Brown | |
| edb1459 | You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace" | jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| e4698c1 | I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| af5bed7 | That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts. | David Levithan | ||
| 3b07a16 | I've gotten really hot since you went blind. | blindness exageration | john green | |
| 713e07a | I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together. " why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now." | insurgent tris | Veronica Roth | |
| 3ffdee8 | When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It .. | fall-of-the-gods growing-up parents | John Steinbeck | |
| 68beb08 | Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. | fiction prejudice science | Michael Crichton | |
| 31a5035 | It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. | gollum hobbit riddle | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a2a4037 | I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; | wisdom | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 811e1b7 | A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. | Herman Melville | ||
| c6c95d9 | The rest of the world quieted into nothing. In that moment, after ten long years, Celaena looked at Chaol and realised she was home. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ca58a0c | Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fe63a86 | The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm. | courage inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking strong | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 922f7e8 | They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested." | humor maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 497a687 | Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 8e35c4e | Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know. | humor jocelyn-fray simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 90e0df8 | So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| d3c1c23 | When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. | George R.R. Martin |