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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bb49bed | I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting." | women love | Charles Dickens | |
| ef950a0 | The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 6674582 | Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 38bb754 | Boredom is a mask frustration wears. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 35a2bf0 | Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 1e098e7 | People simply feel better about themselves when they're good at something. | self-esteem | Stephen R. Covey | |
| f795b13 | I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's. | Truman Capote | ||
| 7581445 | He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 16f5f3c | As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. | empathy love | Edith Wharton | |
| 659e9ad | The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. He would have desired someone to pick up the socks, put the records away, and maybe burn the place down. Michelangelo would have been distressed by its proportions, which were neither lofty nor shaped by any noticeable inner harmony or symmetry, other than that a.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a9b891a | Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan hap.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 1b66a1c | You're either on the bus or off the bus. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 49e84f5 | Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 9a52ee8 | Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed. | Howard Zinn | ||
| e7db5ad | It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| ea9bce4 | I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2b9922c | Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 937a370 | In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society. | Plato | ||
| b1c36cc | Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 9b1c5ad | No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really." | harry-potter friends trust love hermione dedication j-k-rowling powerful | J.K. Rowling | |
| 91284d5 | You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' -- 'The Boy Who Scored'-- whatever they call you these days. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d23b450 | Promise me you'll look after yourself ... stay out of trouble ...' 'I always do, Mrs Weasley,' said Harry. 'I like a quiet life, you know me. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 81473a4 | Voldemort," said Riddle softly, "is my past, present, and future, Harry Potter. . . ." He pulled Harry's wand from his pocket and began to trace it through the air, writing three shimmering words: Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name rearranged themselves: " | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 153bf1c | Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. | ashes reborn phoenix | J.K. Rowling | |
| f7fb414 | Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a50fb87 | Maybe next time we just open the door and start out with some bitch slapping. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 787c113 | People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that. | history the-diviners libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| a063f31 | And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7b4f4b8 | All things are possible. | Libba Bray | ||
| c3e54be | The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion. | Libba Bray | ||
| dfd8d1d | In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant. | Ann Patchett | ||
| a3b4207 | There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 5913e2c | I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. | solitude responsibility love self-sufficiency protection | P.D. James | |
| 8a9d6fd | One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn't, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 9226f05 | The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. Or better to say, in face. Grammar of my life: as a rule of thumb, wherever there appears a plural, correct for singular. Should I ever let slip a royal put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 9229335 | Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| f3a5585 | When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not t.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 6cc3ecd | God hides the fires of hell within paradise. | irony god paulo-coelho paradise hell | Paulo Coelho | |
| 6e5e103 | Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap... Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4038110 | It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. | magic fantasy inspirational earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| cd205ef | To the blessed darkness from which we are born, and to which we return. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 65ca7d6 | Celaena threw her weight into the dagger she held aloft, and gained an inch. His arms strained. She was going to kill him. She truly going to kill him. He made himself look into her eyes, look at the face so twisted with rage that he couldn't find her. "Celaena," he said, squeezing her wrists so hard that he hoped the pain registered somewhere- wherever she had gone. But she still wouldn't lossen her grip on the blade. "Celaena, I'm your fr.. | chaol | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 9bb2c9d | I belong to NO ONE. But my heart belongs to you | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 29457b1 | Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said. Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?" | Diana Wynne Jones |