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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | relationships friendship love flings | 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 | ||
| a1f7f0a | Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 65d5693 | Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. | inspirational | Tom Robbins | |
| 2d49dff | Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. | inspirational | Brené Brown | |
| 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. | laughter inspirational | 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. | pippin the-two-towers the-return-of-the-king lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a2aa307 | A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. | Herman Melville | ||
| f02469d | Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 011bf60 | By the age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or any kind of professional. And by thirty, darkness starts moving in- you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy and successful. By thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing for the rest of your life, and you become resigned to your fate... ...I mean, why do people live s.. | life mid-life-crisis quarter-life-crisis fulfillment | Douglas Coupland | |
| 1547e31 | A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e96c08c | Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 31d5c71 | Ne mogu ja - kaze - dobri covjece, ozdraviti, jer ja i nisam bolestan, nego sam ovakav, a od sebe se ne moze ozdraviti. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 0afb28a | He whom loves touches not walks in darkness. | Plato | ||
| e1ecd3f | Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master. | Alan Brennert | ||
| c33c215 | Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? | Yann Martel | ||
| d13fae8 | Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life," Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0f29ae3 | How long have you been 'Big D' then?" said Harry. "Shut it," snarled Dudley, turning away again. "Cool name," said Harry, grinning and falling into step beside his cousin. "But you'll always be Ickle Diddykins to me." "I said, SHUT IT!" said Dudley, whose ham-like hands had curled into fists. "Don't the boys know that's what your mum calls you?" "Shut your face." "You don't tell to shut her face. What about 'popkin' and 'Dinky Diddydums,'.. | taunting nicknames | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8cbd861 | And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b02a1cc | Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work. | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9090227 | Yes, Harry Potter!" said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. "And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!" "There won't be any need for that," said Harry hastily." | harry-potter humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7f5bc19 | A Wrackspurt . . . They're invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy," she said. "I thought I felt one zooming around in here." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d071857 | Just -- just to be clear," he said. "You want to leave Tonks at her parents' house and come away with us?" "She'll be perfectly safe there, they'll look after her," said Lupin. He spoke with a finality bordering on indifference. "Harry, I'm sure James would have wanted me to stick with you." "Well," said Harry slowly, "I'm not. I'm pretty sure my father would have wanted to know why you aren't sticking with your own kid, actually." | remus-lupin james-potter | J.K. Rowling |