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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e9de9a | The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong. | xenophobia | David Levithan | |
| bd2be9a | It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you. | dissonance dysmorphia fighting-yourself imperfection loneliness struggling transgender | David Levithan | |
| daffb08 | Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing. | David Levithan | ||
| 3f25ce5 | sometimes there's nothing to say about death. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 35b4334 | Nothing is as eloquent as nothing. | David Mitchell | ||
| d326e2f | In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other .. | class-warfare economics labor money profit | Adam Smith | |
| d779382 | We're being led by an idiot with a crayon. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f09bd37 | Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both? | foaly holly-short orion | Eoin Colfer | |
| 7c03a81 | Teach French and unteach sincerity. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4cb5233 | He killed himself for wanting to live. | life suicide | Markus Zusak | |
| 1a815c2 | Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a31886f | Those who trust us educate us. | education trust | George Eliot | |
| bfd3a17 | Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable. | work | Voltaire | |
| 71e20c6 | Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1cb6cbf | But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 412281f | Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 21574c8 | Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fb04f77 | It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| eeda5c0 | They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. | life love relationships | Lorrie Moore | |
| 30ddc5e | Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live. | Robert Greene | ||
| 302769e | The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways. Some people have dark qualities that are especially pronounced. You cannot change such.. | human-nature personality | Robert Greene | |
| 5282c8b | All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought. | mitch-albom | Mitch Albom | |
| 2de65ef | That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain. | love surprise | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 8bb55ee | Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5782906 | You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot! | authority conservatism conservatives military right-wingers war | Joseph Heller | |
| dc6efea | If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality? | homosexuality sex sexual-orientation sexuality | Judith Butler | |
| 7fe6779 | The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 324cfea | Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like that," he said. "You might if you tried." "I never have." She licked her lips. "Rain even tastes good." "What do you do, go around trying everything once?" he asked. "Sometimes twice." | rain | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7ef8b77 | To be alive--is Power. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| e7dc776 | I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality -- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was Only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I coul.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 89827da | Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 76f8da7 | Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 2b67df7 | I blame boobs. | boobs pure seth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 0e30026 | This was it. And it was right. Perfect without the dinner, movies, and flowers, because how could you really plan something like this? You couldn't Daemon sat back- A fist pounded on the door, and Andrew's voice intruded. "Daemon, are you awake?" We stared at each other in disbelief. "If I ignore him," he whispered, "do you think he'll go away?" My hands dropped to my sides. "Maybe" The pounding came again. "Daemon, I really need you downs.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| db00961 | We walk - or shuffled along - about a yard and then I walked straight into a mailbox. I grunted. "Son of a bitch jumped right out in front of me!" Kyler stopped, shaking his head. "You are a hazard to yourself right now." "I'm fine." I waved him off, edging around the tricky inanimate object as I shot it a dark look. "I'm watching you." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6c4cbc5 | The newcomer stood well over six feet, as tall as any Warden. His hair was dark, the color of obsidian, and it reflected blue in the dim light. Lazy locks slipped over his forehead and curled just below his ears. Brows arched over golden eyes and his cheekbones were broad and high. He was attractive. Very attractive. Mind-bendingly beautiful, actually, but the sardonic twist to his full lips chilled his beauty. The black T-shirt stretched a.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 25b8298 | You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength.. | life motivational self-reliance | Darren Shan | |
| e5e4ab3 | Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking th.. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 4bd7101 | Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness. | sadness | Rick Riordan | |
| e1e3021 | He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso. | house-of-hades jason-grace leo-valdez love marooned oggygia percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 5a7ca2c | Bob ... the Titan ... he only helped us in Tartarus because you were kind to him. You told him we were worth saving. That's the only reason we're alive.' She said we so easily, as if she and Percy were interchangeable, inseparable. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 58ab4fa | He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadn't seen one in years, but I recognized it -- a McDonald's Happy Meal. He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. "In my day, we used animal blood," the ghost mumbled. "It's perfectly good enough. They can't taste the difference." "I will treat them with respect," Nico said. "At least let me keep the.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 47d00fb | I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told us that magicians tried to stay out of Manhattan. He said Manhattan had other problems--whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical i.. | kane-chronicles | Rick Riordan | |
| 2164a63 | anyway. Leo said, I hope you've got your worksheet, 'cause I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that? Somebody draw on my face again? | leo | Rick Riordan |