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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a61f2b | I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 2e886d2 | Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait. | Truman Capote | ||
| fc78123 | The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically one of them not being worth all the bother. On Earth -- when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass -- the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to.. | trouble | Douglas Adams | |
| 4e1a8ec | The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| ac95af4 | To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative -- the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time. | escape escapism fiction interpretation narrative reading real-world storytelling | Umberto Eco | |
| 63f9163 | Addiction" might be the best word to explain the lostness that so deeply permeates society. Our addiction make us cling to what the world proclaims as the keys to self-fulfillment: accumulation of wealth and power; attainment of status and admiration; lavish consumption of food and drink, and sexual gratification without distinguishing between lust and love. These addictions create expectations that cannot but fail to satisfy our deepest ne.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3d12c87 | Yeah, right. Life is a soul-sucking test that you either survive or you fail. Personally, I think failure blows, so I intend to survive and laugh my ass off at all the losers. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8b145f9 | As Ash left the house, the back door slammed shut, catching the tail end of his long black coat. Ash jerked to a stop and cursed. Nick howled with laughter at the sight of Acheron trapped.) Don't it take the bad-ass right out of you? (Nick) (Ash arched a brow. The door opened by itself, freeing his coat, then it slammed shut again. Nick sobered instantly.) And that puts it right back in you. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e7dc36b | Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don't think any less of you for it. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a763e08 | But, Bubba? Aren't you and Mark friends? (Nick) Ah, hell no. Mark's not my friend, he's my minion. (Bubba) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 54e05c9 | Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8439162 | And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be. | wanda | Stephenie Meyer | |
| c20c3f8 | Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. -- Bella Cullen | love | Stephenie Meyer | |
| b8bb39f | I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 86a9224 | There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you. | Richard Adams | ||
| 763a168 | Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot we.. | pedophilia poets soldiers | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| fb1fa02 | Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| e5ad734 | So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 312779f | One day | Richard Brautigan | ||
| cafc5c7 | Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 17230cf | Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers). | humour rules-of-attraction | Simone Elkeles | |
| 4e020aa | It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| f4cff9c | Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. | destination destiny journeys love love-story lovers wisdom | William Shakespeare | |
| fcbea22 | My invite must have gotten lost in the mail," she said venomously. "But I don't mind crashing this party. -Maximum Ride talking to Max II" | James Patterson | ||
| d2045e8 | I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish. | James Patterson | ||
| 092208f | Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears | poetry-quotes | Maya Angelou | |
| 3798650 | What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? | Emily Brontë | ||
| 96b661a | I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral--these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, "I loved him. We all loved him so much." I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange w.. | life love meaning | David Levithan | |
| 64cacd0 | We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside. | David Levithan | ||
| 98995aa | Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results. | David Levithan | ||
| 7808ea2 | Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire? | David Levithan | ||
| 06db4f3 | Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 6cfc7e4 | they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6a1a5f9 | fuck she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch. it's only human. now we've got to do it. I've got to do it after all that bluff. it's like a party-- two trapped idiots. under the sheets after I have snapped off the light her panties are still on. she expects an opening performance. I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| d38eb1e | The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering. | Hayao Miyazaki | ||
| 5a98dda | I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted t.. | relationships sacrifice | Emily Giffin | |
| 3a505d2 | You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 3368f10 | Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do." | integrity | David Mitchell | |
| 2a9438b | Not everyone is meant to stay forever. | Danielle Steel | ||
| ba0312e | vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture." | free-verse free-verse-poetry funny funny-but-true poetry | G.K. Chesterton | |
| d43f4e8 | In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| f6fabca | No, you're not going with him." I crossed my arms. "Who decided that?" He put on his "I'm alpha and I'm putting my foot down" expression. "I decided." | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7e202e1 | Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'.... 'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted. | humorous | Ilona Andrews | |
| 0c6b30d | The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me." | Ilona Andrews |