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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c2467b0 | Steve said, "I don't know. I really don't. All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be." His answer felt like truth to me. Not an easy truth, but truth." | Brené Brown | ||
| 47ebc68 | I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History. | Joan Didion | ||
| 752a37a | He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again. | William Golding | ||
| 7973817 | I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death." | rape violence | Alice Sebold | |
| fa59d08 | The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52). | Ayn Rand | ||
| 886ff30 | Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 777b394 | A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men's loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does n.. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 470732b | because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. | louisa-may-alcott little-women talent | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 49b65f1 | Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e2c434a | Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone. | Éowyn | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7c61afc | Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 820562a | Why should we cherish "objectivity", as if ideas were innocent, as if they don't serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don't want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don't play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don't take sides in those struggles. Indeed, it .. | objectivity | Howard Zinn | |
| 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. | order-of-the-phoenix james-potter 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 .. | lying humanity honesty humiliation lie | 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. | true funny camping hiking camp bear shit attack trail | 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." | manners humans ladies | 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. | the-dragon the-wolf empire-of-storms throne-of-glass lysandra sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 751ffc9 | You have no right to make jigsaws of people. | humor | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| bdf48bf | Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside. | magic meditation | Tamora Pierce | |
| 3b075c0 | Michael Pollan likens consumer choices to pulling single threads out of a garment. We pull a thread from the garment when we refuse to purchase eggs or meat from birds who were raised in confinement, whose beaks were clipped so they could never once taste their natural diet of worms and insects. We pull out a thread when we refuse to bring home a hormone-fattened turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. We pull a thread when we refuse to buy meat or.. | Jane Goodall | ||
| 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. | solitude words literature reading lonliness | 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 | ||
| 8b1cb03 | Sig Sauer. Nine millimetres. Thirteen in the magazine. Big bullets. One of these hits you and it could blow your head off; something even the magic can't fix. Other than that you should be all right, presuming you remembered to wear the regulation above-ground micro-fibre jumpsuit recently patented by me. Then again, being a Recon jock, you probably didn't. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 632457a | The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever the omissions, the exceptions, or the faults - is the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Starting point: matter; goal: the soul. Hydra at the.. | victor-hugo | Victor Hugo |