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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3090a71 | But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. | relatable truth | Sylvia Plath | |
| 7700de8 | It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. | sam-gamgee | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b6ea1e5 | I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. | humor prayers religion ridicule satire social-justice social-life | Voltaire | |
| e578cec | It isn't against the Law to be an idiot. | idiot infernal-devices law nephilim shadowhunters | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4c35f2b | He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars. | life nature | Jack London | |
| a06b84a | Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period,.. | destruction enemies hate love redemption | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 8fa29fc | I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. | dancing feeling human human-nature humanism humanity inspiration inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life life-and-living living living-life passion purity sacredness sanctity | C. JoyBell C. | |
| a5a51c1 | Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call the enchantment down White silk when our bodies burn Blue banners when the lost return Flame for the birth of a Nephilim And to wash away our sins. Gray for the knowledge best untold Bone for those who don't grow old Saffron lights the victory march Green to mend our broken hearts Silver for the demon towers And .. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 80e25ff | Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. | interdependence life love | Neil Gaiman | |
| a941df2 | Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7c88964 | The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him. | trust | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8eddf6c | The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them. | dream dream-comes-true dreams dreams-come-true dreams-quotes inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living living-life motivational motivational-inspirational positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking positivity | Roy T. Bennett | |
| b1c0b7b | She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 80b8432 | It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir | drama the-kite-runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 89903a7 | inspirational life | ???? ????? | ||
| 1e73467 | I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding-- certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost for.. | flaws mr-darcy pride-and-prejudice temper | Jane Austen | |
| 48e6ccc | Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 570d158 | Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| c36d38c | The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. | hope | Arthur Golden | |
| 009c735 | So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 05def9f | I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week. | sadness | Sylvia Plath | |
| 1e19834 | Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 7ad92d3 | The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. | Richard Bach | ||
| b2d8439 | The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8220428 | Listen to many, speak to a few. | William Shakespeare | ||
| fa7d70d | Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 35ab310 | I'll say it one last time: Be brave. | Veronica Roth | ||
| d39ad0c | You cannot change what you are, only what you do. | change life self-determination | Philip Pullman | |
| ea53c04 | Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| b6be54b | Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 984df82 | I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 4a4a95a | Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear. | friendships relationships | Haruki Murakami | |
| 57520a7 | She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius--and she would not be afraid. | badass calaena-sardothien heir-of-fire will-not-be-afraid | Sarah J. Maas | |
| beaa5d0 | All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. | journey shine tolkien travel wander wanderlust | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9112351 | The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. | cruelty inkheart reading | Cornelia Funke | |
| d83ccfa | He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| be7accd | If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. | follow-your-bliss inspirational self-actualization | Joseph Campbell | |
| c171ef5 | In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. | inspirational | Anne Frank | |
| e6e5568 | I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. | life lying | J.D. Salinger | |
| fb27b63 | Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. | simile | Terry Pratchett | |
| 137e380 | Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c54fd49 | Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed." | poetry sorrow | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 663920a | I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist. | god religion | Albert Camus | |
| d1d82eb | We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. | inspirational | Rumi |