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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c03a81 | Teach French and unteach sincerity. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4cb5233 | He killed himself for wanting to live. | suicide life | 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. | trust education | 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. | relationships life love | 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.. | personality human-nature | Robert Greene | |
| 61e1822 | Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships | relationships love gossip-girl girl | 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 | ||
| 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. | loneliness dysmorphia fighting-yourself dissonance imperfection transgender struggling | 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 | ||
| ff34695 | Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite. | Hayao Miyazaki | ||
| 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 .. | money labor class-warfare profit economics | Adam Smith | |
| e927d72 | If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have? | Miranda July | ||
| 2a704dc | The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 954f6a2 | I'm taking off my shoes.'' ''Fine. Shoes off.'' ''And my pants.'' ''Don't push it, Claire. | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 6470f5e | I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 2fe826a | The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 20dd181 | I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny -- that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end. | Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| e569507 | Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 77ec867 | There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles. | funny | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| a079da1 | It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 740c74a | Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest. | the-city-in-the-sea | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| b580ff4 | She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She gulped for air. "...take thee Alexander..." She gulped again. "...to be my awful wedded husband..." -- | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | ||
| 0e0bb4c | To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 04871e3 | Marcela amou-me durante quinze meses e onze contos de reis | Machado de Assis | ||
| 16b6df6 | PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| c1511a4 | You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight. | S. E. Hinton | ||
| bffc642 | I liked my books and clouds and sunsets. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| c77f65b | Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 2a7063a | There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 33d980a | I have crossed oceans of time to find you. | Bram Stoker | ||
| a4fc211 | I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse. | mood-swings psychiatry | Kay Redfield Jamison |