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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0eff168 | Become who you are by learning who you are. | Robert Greene | ||
| 0eb0751 | When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light still reaches you, sparkling as it comes up through your memories. And if you're lucky as you travel forward through time, you'll bring the whole of yourself along with you, gathering your skirts and leaving nothing behind, nothing to obscure the light. But if a Bad Thing happens part of you is seared into place, and trapped for ev.. | trauma | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| 138db1e | Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 7150985 | Considering what Pauline's been through . . ." Will began, then stopped himself. "She's not very nice." "She's a cold-blooded bitch." "I'm surprised I haven't fallen in love with her." -- | Karin Slaughter | ||
| db26d76 | If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people." "A zillion?" "Even a zillion. A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry." "Like Cimmamum?" "Even hungrier. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart"--I pointed to her heart; .. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| a5d132a | You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me." I turned to Cinnamon. He licked my nose. "Don't give yourself so much credit. It was your rat I was after." She laughed, and the desert sang." | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 210dcf2 | There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. | personality humorous flexibility personal-development self | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| b91630c | I have always been interested in this . My father had a set of 's books on the shelf at home. I must have opened the covers about the time I was 13. And I can still remember the flash of enlightenment which shone from his pages. It was a revelation, indeed, to encounter his views on political and religious matters, so different from the views of many people around us. Of course I did not understand him very well, but his sincerity and ard.. | influence imprisonment jean-jacques-rousseau montesquieu robespierre rousseau unthinking french-revolution liberty paine thomas-paine | Thomas A. Edison | |
| e1665e3 | Thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of . And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of . | David Levithan | ||
| 26ce150 | Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1f42ed5 | The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. | William Blake | ||
| 472b6d8 | I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back. | trust | Avi | |
| 997c95b | Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 14f07af | A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned. | irony writer inspirational | David Mitchell | |
| baea997 | Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 9d198be | Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life." | Erich Fromm | ||
| f2986d3 | Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. | poets logic-reason insanity | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 387846d | That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could have His back to the wall is a boast for all insurgents forever. Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone felt that God, to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king. Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the o.. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| 4bad94c | When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. | opportunities | Philip Pullman | |
| e8b9b26 | Okay, pull me up." The rope didn't move. "Ascanio?" What was it now? Did he see a butterfly and get distracted? The rope slid up, as fast as if wound by a winch. I shot upward. What the...? I cleared the edge and found myself face to face with Curran. Oh boy. He held the rope with one hand, muscles bulging on his arm under his sweatshirt. No strain showed on Curran's face. It's good to be the baddest shapeshifter in the city. Behind him Asc.. | beast-lord boop bunnycat kate-daniels-magic-breaks curran kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 670e092 | Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?" | rene magic-strikes saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| f0d29ee | My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 63647a4 | I opened a writing app and began typing what I knew about Pierce. . Terminal fear of T-shirts or any other garment that would cover his pectorals. . Doesn't hesitate to kill. Holding him at gunpoint would result in me being barbecued. Whee. . Now here's an understatement. Good information to have, but not useful for finding him. . Neither here nor there. Hmm. So far my best plan would be to build a mountain of gasoline cans and explosives, .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 176ae3a | Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness. | suffering evil | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 8ded279 | OMG OMG OMG, Shane is totally crushing on the new roomie! I can't believe it. I always pictured Shane going after blond beach hotties. Who knew he liked big brains and teeny little bodies? Although, to be fair, she is cute as a button. (Why do we say that? What's so cute about a button, anyway?) | Rachel Caine | ||
| 504cb7c | It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 4e91751 | Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish. | morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| f08a7d5 | Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. "Ladies? After you." "Rude," Claire said. "I was being polite!" "Not when you have a flamethrower." | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| d11a55d | And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time.' 'That accident was not my fault.' 'You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too. | Rachel Caine | ||
| e755345 | Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. There are objects and people that disappear from your sight or knowledge or possession; you lose a bracelet, a friend, the key. You still know where you are. Everything is familiar except that there is one item less, one missing element. Or you get lost, in which case the world has become larger than your.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| d48c8ee | Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have spent vast amounts of your life as someone else, as people who died long ago, as people who never lived, as strangers you never met. The usual I we are given has all the tidy containment of the kind of character the realist novel specializes in and none of the porousness of our every waking moment, the loose threads, the strange drea.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 88d6113 | Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. | memories | Cornelia Funke | |
| bbe0eae | No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| df0b6ba | I do understand that you can look into someone's eyes," I heard myself saying, "and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| b14dd6d | Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| e885ac3 | It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise. | Jules Verne | ||
| 902782d | That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 0eed73f | One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable. | Richard Bach | ||
| f2031b7 | And the boy loved the tree.......very much. And the tree was happy. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 52b38b1 | I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 70558fc | But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| a4234e4 | I'm not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him. I want to be drinking with him in a bar. I'm tired and I don't want anymore pain. I want Maurice. I want ordinary corrupt human love. Dear God, you know I want to want Your pain, but I don't want it now. Take it away for a while and give it me another time. | Graham Greene | ||
| 5b971b9 | Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| a041cd9 | Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expect.. | myth responsibility morality reason fear love truth atheist-argument christianity-is-immoral christopher-hitchens compulsory divine-dictatorship eternal-punishment great-atheist-argument hitchens hitchslap homo-sapiens immoral-christianity love-your-neighbor supreme-being dawkins indifference human-sacrifice eternal-father totalitarianism debate dictatorship richard-dawkins wishful-thinking belief evidence ethics atheism health intellect atheist redemption crime guilt | Christopher Hitchens |