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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e122ce1 | You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 679b470 | All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4e4e2a9 | When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. | sacrifice though | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 2451710 | He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. | inspirational laughter | John Steinbeck | |
| 2d737ad | Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 8aab33e | I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. | goodness | Arthur Golden | |
| 45061d1 | We all fear what we do not understand. | Dan Brown | ||
| 6414004 | Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 73c6fd5 | There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?" | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| dfc9b1f | The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0f84957 | She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 07ce0aa | Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender. | Truman Capote | ||
| 61bb89d | Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings. | lord-of-the-rings pippin the-return-of-the-king the-two-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a2aa307 | A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7f36aad | I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9261038 | But you love books, then," Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a strange thing to say at your age," she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope --- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new uni.. | Anne Rice | ||
| 113042a | Come home with me, Acheron. I'll make it well worth your while. (Artemis) I have a headache. (Acheron) You've had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis) And you've had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f06e295 | What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos) Dying's easy. It's living that's hard. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a3a483a | Tori walked toward the bed. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her give Derek a once-over. "You know, from this angle, he doesn't look too bad," she said. I glared at her. "I'm just saying . . ." I leaned over Derek, calling him as loudly as I dared. "Personally, I'm more a running back girl myself," Tori said. "But if you like the linebacker type, he's--" My glower shut her up" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 0fd7210 | I'm suprised he doesn't send Christmas cards," Antonio said. "I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed veilum cards, the best he can steal. Little notes in perfect penmanship,"Happy holidays. Hope everyone is well. I sliced up Ethan Ritter in Miami and scattered his remains in the Atlantic. Best wishes for the new year. Karl." | otherworld werewolves | Kelley Armstrong | |
| b561e41 | Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 99161a9 | At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded. | certainty | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| ca3a1ce | Estragon: Nothing to be done. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| e70a95d | Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. | Stephen King | ||
| a8f62ca | It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 82e0f90 | It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| a899dfd | All other trades are contained in that of war. Is that why war endures? No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not. That's your notion. The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. .. | games war | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 6b122ed | I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend T.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c480ebd | I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2ba03df | Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. | london paris | Jack Kerouac | |
| 1d75329 | How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? | Amy Tan | ||
| 496d26b | We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice. | blackhawk comanche | Noam Chomsky | |
| 41fa969 | Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 0ec6207 | A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 0b9e5a4 | O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9616d3c | What's done, is done | William Shakespeare | ||
| 2359d0c | Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. | flings friendship love relationships | William Shakespeare | |
| c8e59f7 | Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently. "Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. "Lieutenant colonel," he sputtered." | James Patterson | ||
| a4a5055 | Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself | James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet | ||
| a9012c1 | The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 61e1822 | Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships | girl gossip-girl love relationships | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 9dd784d | I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. | Jess Walter | ||
| 7943cca | You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it. | David Levithan | ||
| af6083b | Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse. | David Levithan |