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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3817af8 | i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live | Nikki Giovanni | ||
| 19b1cb8 | The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left. | live learn | Lisa Kleypas | |
| b967c7d | A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort but the rewards are substantial. I highly recommend wives. Especially one's own. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 7d55675 | Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 7c025b5 | No more Dane," he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. "I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him." "It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| fede3fd | Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough. | sanity | John Irving | |
| 3701337 | Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 6926abf | You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness. You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of enjoying. You would not be so frightened if I had spoken of happiness instead of pleasure: it sounds less shocking, and your mind w.. | values pleasure | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 8c677c4 | The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest? | Veronica Roth | ||
| 43ffd82 | I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 3ea2c6e | What did you do?" This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him... "What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too...I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 2904945 | Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 56db864 | Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? | Alan Moore | ||
| fffe1d3 | No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness. | women writing quisqueya haiti | Edwidge Danticat | |
| d567a48 | Allow me to give my lord one last piece of counsel," the old man had said, "the same counsel I once gave my brother when we parted for the last time. He was three-and-thirty when the Great Council chose him to mount the Iron Throne. A man grown with sons of his own, yet in some ways still a boy. Egg had an innocence to him, a sweetness we all loved. I told him the day I took ship for the Wall. The old man felt Jon's face. "You are half .. | aemon-targaryen winter-is-coming | George R.R. Martin | |
| 59ff378 | The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b2157c6 | oh shit it's shit | seasons hayworth novella rita shawshank-redemption shit stephen-king prison | Stephen King | |
| 0be0da3 | where the world ends is where you must begin | Stephen King | ||
| 037baa6 | The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.... | Agatha Christie | ||
| 4295f61 | After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)" | seeing humor cleared confused dodge huh throat frank glass redd wars looking | Frank Beddor | |
| 465c912 | Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 2a5f61f | Eve: "If you ended up naked and dead with another woman, I'd do the Rumba on your corpse." Roarke: "You can't do the Rumba." Eve: "I'd take lessons first." Roarke: "You might very well. Not that you'll ever get the chance, but you'd also grieve." Eve: "Wouldn't give you the satisfaction. You cheating f-wit putz. " Roarke: "You'd weep in the dark and call my name." Eve: "Call your name alright. How are things in hell? You dickless bastard. .. | relationships | J.D. Robb | |
| 0631485 | Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hands up! Hands where I can fucking see them, you fucking cocksucker. You fucking breathe wrong, you fucking blink wrong, and I will fuck you up. Fucker." Jacobsen snarled it as he shoved Marcell to the ground. "On your fucking face, you fucking shit coward. Stream my lieutenant in the fucking back? Fuck you." | eve-and-roarke in-death-series | J.D. Robb | |
| 038f9f1 | I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291). | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 02edaba | Her amber eyes burned into mine with all the hate and loathing she could muster. Underneath, though, she was terrified. Hate and loathing didn't bother me, but fear was a powerful emotion. Fear causes the dog to bite and Roze was one bitch. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| bc0969c | Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.) | Susan Cain | ||
| bc97590 | No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me | Alexandre Dumas (fils) | ||
| 99339a2 | Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do. | fear fight-or-flight-response dresden-files | Jim Butcher | |
| 8c2fe54 | We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9548fcb | Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves. | Holly Black | ||
| 798733c | Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. | inspirational | Robert Bresson | |
| b12bcf4 | there will be sleeping enough in the grave.... | inspirational | Benjamin Franklin | |
| beb87b7 | The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me. | onion-skins persona people inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living life inspirational the-world | C. JoyBell C. | |
| e8c3a8f | Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence | inspirational excellence | Vince Lombardi | |
| 12c2465 | You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else | life inspirational choices | Marie Sexton | |
| c11776e | For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I've met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways. | motivational spiritual philosophy wisdom inspirational zen peace | Forrest Curran | |
| 8204989 | I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special. | wonder inspirational | Julia Roberts | |
| 50e767a | Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead. | life inspirational | Heather Vogel Frederick | |
| d3363d0 | As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. | careers writers | William S. Burroughs | |
| 5426424 | One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 6967589 | Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk. | viking wisdom | Michael Crichton | |
| 13b94ef | Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 02aad68 | History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. { } | history free-government humboldt alexander-von-humboldt priest ignorance | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 969f6c4 | There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words. | Arthur Conan Doyle |