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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7ccc5df | How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls. | William Faulkner | ||
| 1a48e6c | I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. | James Joyce | ||
| 5707b66 | We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 2a55aa2 | I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 27e396d | It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c005ff3 | I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There! | irony | Ray Bradbury | |
| d7f8fef | You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. ... You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hur.. | pain silence | Chaim Potok | |
| bead42a | we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 4ebf0d6 | Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| c7dee2a | Facts are lonely things | Don DeLillo | ||
| f518550 | Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 12955a9 | Shut up, sit down, and read. (Tory) Please? (Acheron) You need something? (Tory) You to be polite to me, Ms. I Own The World- Now Do What I Say You Pathetic Pleb. (Acheron) You don't strike me as the kind of guy who takes orders anyway. (Tory) Yes, but a simple please goes a long way. I'm the one doing you a favor here. (Acheron) Fine. Please sit down, shut up, and read. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ad95e11 | What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the 'I'm Acheron's Squire' part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 360abac | Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut your mouth and open your ears." "I'm not the one talking." Kyrian snarled at him. "Don't get smart with me." "You want me stupid?" "Nick...." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9f80062 | no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| d3953b3 | But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. | Albert Camus | ||
| 494d9a5 | A weed is a plant out of place. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 88020d1 | I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 68a8b1a | The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- | poem life | Robert Frost | |
| a53af60 | People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that? | humor | Stephen King | |
| 584cb67 | Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders | Jim Morrison | ||
| 1ac49b2 | You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do. | men | Hilary Mantel | |
| 11cb875 | It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and.. | stars desert fire | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 2b3bcdc | When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group--bacteria, mice, people--and subject that group to certain conditions. They compare the results with a second group which has not been disturbed. This second group is called the control group. It is the control group which enables the scientist gauge the effect of his experiment. To judge the significance of what has occurred. .. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 3e96b8d | You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| e1a2667 | Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. | writing inspirational | Anne Lamott | |
| 8eabe3e | A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. | moroseness subconscious misery | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 43c30fb | In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us. | dogs relationship life | John Grogan | |
| 05cf169 | One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours. | yours mine | William Shakespeare | |
| 2c428bd | All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. | mankind world humanity actors theater stage | William Shakespeare | |
| 1275013 | Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8b50aaf | There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. | William Shakespeare | ||
| f63c015 | Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come | fate | William Shakespeare | |
| 31b8b9f | Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. | shakespeare humor braggart bragging parroles ass humility pride | William Shakespeare | |
| ff545d5 | More Weight -Giles Corey- | Arthur Miller | ||
| d60020b | When I am wicked I am in high spirits. | Henry James | ||
| a04ee3c | Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on: 'And how do you know that you're mad?' 'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?' 'I suppose so,' said Alice. 'Well then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.' 'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice. | cheshire-cat | Lewis Carroll | |
| 0f1ae7e | I like you. And I don't mean as a friend. | anna-olimphant etienne-st-clair stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 4030846 | Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it's behind bars." "It's a zoo, Iggy," Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. "Everything's behind bars." | James Patterson | ||
| 4e56a2b | A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 7870a4b | James, pull over, I want to kiss you. | L.J. Smith | ||
| 64a22a5 | Good night, Gabriel.' [Kaitlyn] said You jerk [Gabriel] widened his eyes. 'Don't you want to stay? It's a big bed. | the-strange-power | L.J. Smith | |
| 0da839f | You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others... | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 69220d7 | Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. | inspirational-attitude parenting self-help | Brené Brown |