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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0f9e645 | Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2fb343c | When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 84f0d00 | This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed. | hugh-laurie humour | Hugh Laurie | |
| 9afb278 | You had no right. No right to stand in front of me." He turned back now, his eyes vividly blue with temper that had gone from frigid to blaze. "No fucking right to risk yourself on my behalf" "Oh really. Is that so?" She stalked forward until they were toe to toe. "Okay, you tell me. You keep looking me dead in the eye and you tell me you wouldn't have done the same if it was me in jeopardy." "That's entirely different." "Why?" Her chin cam.. | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| f2d0ec0 | Oh thank you, Jesus." "It's Roarke." He tapped a finger on Eve's head. "You really shouldn't forget your own husband's name." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 5cd1120 | Sometimes there are no answers. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 78ae35f | I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking." | funny saphira | Christopher Paolini | |
| b87a93b | I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps. | nostalgia | Rob Sheffield | |
| 7d07435 | Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con. | Holly Black | ||
| 8700d32 | We don't need to be good. But let's try to be fair. | goodness | Holly Black | |
| c173c5c | Through the Unknown, we'll find the New | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| fa2043d | The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy. | choice choose happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes live-life-happy living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| ee156fd | Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe. | helping-others inspirational | Andre Agassi | |
| d6798fb | I have a dream." "Is your dream very big?" "No." "Well is it very grand?" "Not either." "Neither?" "Neither." "What is it then?" "It is very shiny. | dreaming dreams dreams-inspirational heartwarming inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring sweet | C. JoyBell C. | |
| e338e81 | Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy! | cake cakes happiness inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes joy life life-and-living living looking-no-further the-way-of-the-cake the-way-to-happiness understanding-happiness understanding-joy | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 7dbd2d8 | The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better. | dating-advice experience inspirational life-advice life-gets-better life-lessons looking-ahead love past-experiences sadness | Phil Lester | |
| c229aab | Witches were a bit like cats. They didn't much like one another's company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them. | witch | Terry Pratchett | |
| 61daef1 | My world was changing, and I was not ready for it. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| b0492ed | Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well. | Betty Smith | ||
| 2cee4a6 | From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. | literature lonliness reading solitude words | Betty Smith | |
| 8462ca0 | The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. | shakespeare | Virginia Woolf | |
| 91d615c | What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts f.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f491e7d | Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 7a54b43 | Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. | bell hooks | ||
| fd4f108 | I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7355711 | My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 34533af | Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deept trust, a free act of love- but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up. At such moments I tried to elevate myself. I would touch the turban I had made with the remnants of my shirt and I would say aloud, "THIS IS GOD.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 17495a7 | When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 43a3870 | With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. He was very good-looking, his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed. | james-potter order-of-the-phoenix sirius-black | J.K. Rowling | |
| 20303ea | The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that .. | honesty humanity humiliation lie lying | J.K. Rowling | |
| fbc1635 | You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore." | hagrid | J.K. Rowling | |
| ed393b9 | You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there." He held out his hand to shake Harry's, but Harry didn't take it. "I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks," he said coolly." | harry-potter j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1597ec0 | You have the Best Of Me.... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4996cb8 | His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5a54447 | He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't been so stupid, he wouldn't have lost his temper. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f6ba900 | I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 3f0a67e | A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks. | kartik | Libba Bray | |
| ad60927 | Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. | destruction | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| d13782a | What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless. | attack bear camp camping funny hiking shit trail true | Bill Bryson | |
| ce55c61 | We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 43a0f41 | My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 6779545 | Some night soon, I'll sneak back in here and we can eat chocolates until we vomit." "We're such refined, genteel ladies." "Please," Lysandra said, waving a manicured hand, "you and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins. Don't even try to deny it." | humans ladies manners | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 80fe79c | One day. I am going to marry you. I'll be generous and let you pick when, even if it's ten years from now. Or twenty. But one day, you are going to be my wife. | empire-of-storms lysandra sarah-j-maas the-dragon the-wolf throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0b7c9ef | as small as a world and as large as alone | E. E. Cummings |