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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 82eb86c | I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him." | hope | C.S. Lewis | |
| 9c45985 | Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| aec3e5d | God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering. | suffering selfishness | William Nicholson | |
| 3784169 | He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things. | strong strength-and-courage | Ken Kesey | |
| 1837e21 | Even stone can be worn down with enough rain. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 8330245 | No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 443641a | Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up...?" "The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| fb5dfdc | And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again... | family-relationships | Ray Bradbury | |
| 0b96fe8 | Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| bb32d39 | He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back. | realization | Ray Bradbury | |
| 1108923 | Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down. | risk writing inspiration margaret-langstaff | Ray Bradbury | |
| b8d71b6 | There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god. | god belief pride | Orhan Pamuk | |
| dfb957b | The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 2fa29c8 | Talent is more erotic when it's wasted. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 49b38c3 | Cause I'm gonna put my foot so far up their butts they're going to burp shoe leather. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 917e5dc | Depends on the dog. Big country dogs like these? Yeah. It's the fancy city ones that give me trouble. Overbred, Dad says. Makes them skittish and screws up their wiring. I had a Chihuahua attack me last year." He showed me a faint scar on his hand. "Took a good chunk out." I sputtered a laugh. "A Chihuahua?" "Hey, that thing was more vicious than a pit bull. I was at a park with Simon, kicking around a ball. All of a sudden, this little rat.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| db39d5e | My house, my rules! | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 753f7cf | Thank you, Wanda. My sister. I will never forget you. Be happy, Mel. Enjoy it all. Appreciate it for me. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 02c2152 | We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c49b2ed | You really shouldn't do that to people," I criticized. "It's hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that - she's probably hyperventilating in the kitchen right now." He seemed confused. "Oh come on," I said dubiously. "You have to know the effect you have on people." He tilted his head to one side, and his eyes were curious. "I dazzle people?" "You haven't noticed? Do you think everybody gets their way so easily?" He ignored my question.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 85955d1 | Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French. | humor englishmen languages french | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| ee2a125 | I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received. | Amy Tan | ||
| bac116d | Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 8c67eae | Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan | wisdom mindfulness | Carlos Castaneda | |
| 5520752 | Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. | William Shakespeare | ||
| f86bde8 | Take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are -Josh | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| cfc823c | What are you gonna do with a giant crossword poster? 'Oh, I'm sorry, Anna. I can't go to the movies tonight. I'm working on two thousand across, Norwegian Birdcall.'" "At least I'm not buying a Large Plastic Rock for hiding 'unsightly utility posts.' You realize you have no lawn?" "I could hide other stuff. Like...failed French tests. Or illegal moonshining equipment." He couples over with that wonderful boyish laugher, and I grin. "But wha.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 17cb051 | It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time," Gazzy said. "I felt like the Blue Angels!" "Yeah, except the blue Angels are an extremely well funded, well equipped, well trained, well fed, and no doubt squeaky-clean group of crack navy pilots," I said. "And we're a bunch of unfunded, unequipped, semitrained, not nearly well fed enough, and filthy mongrel avian-human hybrids. But other than that, it's exactly the same." | James Patterson | ||
| bc398b6 | They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic. | James Patterson | ||
| e2619a8 | The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her. | Emily Brontë | ||
| 1385548 | And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled. From an empty sky. | romance vampire | L.J. Smith | |
| dc75ff6 | I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk--just once--in prose like other people." -- | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b863eb0 | She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean. | nature lyanna-stark | George R.R. Martin | |
| 838da37 | For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 5e71bb6 | The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4cc49a6 | To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. | Brené Brown | ||
| b98d9cb | We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it's dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying. | Brené Brown | ||
| 40bc7ef | The opposite of recognizing that we're feeling something is denying our emotions. The opposite of being curious is disengaging. When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us. Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending--to rise strong, recognize our story, and rumble with the truth until we get to a place where we think, Yes. This is what happened. This is m.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 13bd1ea | Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. | life truth | Philip Roth | |
| c84cf4e | You don't even know where I'm going." "I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere." | wanderlust | John Steinbeck | |
| 7e36dd1 | The Western States nervous under the beginning change. Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. A single family moved from the land. Pa borrowed money from the bank, and now the bank wants the land. The land company--that's the bank when it has land --wants tractors, not families on the land. Is a tractor bad? Is the power that turns the long furrows wrong? If this tractor were ours it would be good--not min.. | tom-joad | John Steinbeck | |
| 373c9f7 | Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. | Arthur Golden | ||
| d7368a8 | Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 8bcc1fc | God bless us, every one! | prayer | Charles Dickens |