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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| e052adf | Everybody has a 'gripping stranger' in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it's the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library--a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying 'Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,' you'd follow them. | love | Douglas Coupland | |
| 89d05d2 | An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. | laughter joy finite questions | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 8bcab8d | He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| b6b6b39 | Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 080e22c | I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secreat understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our .. | considerate e-m forster pluck sensitive | E.M. Forster | |
| 5562ca8 | We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. | Yann Martel | ||
| b9b77a7 | Mary Lou: Are you a seeker? A seeker after truth? Newt: I'm more of a chaser, really. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3c7994d | Er -- have the Bludgers ever killed anyone?" Harry asked, hoping he sounded offhand. "Never at Hogwarts. We've had a couple of broken jaws but nothing worse than that. You don't have to worry about the Quaffle or the Bludgers --" "-- unless they crack my head open." "Don't worry, the Weasleys are more than a match for the Bludgers -- I mean, they're like a pair of human Bludgers themselves." | fred-and-george oliver-wood quidditch | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9e5f823 | We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason--" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual--" "--detention--" "--disembowelment--" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 78d5bf8 | Hello, Harry!" she said. "Er -- my name's Barny," said Harry, flummoxed. "Oh, have you changed that too?" she asked brightly. "How did you know -- ?" "Oh, just your expression," she said. Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessorized with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. At least there were no radishes dangling from her ears... | luna-lovegood | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2adbce1 | Are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores? | umbridge | J.K. Rowling | |
| 885b5a6 | I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail. . . . Gladys Gudgeon writes . . . . I just wish I knew . . . ." He paused, looking faintly puzzled, then beamed again and returned to his signing with renewed vigor. "I suspect it is simply my good looks. . . ." | harry-potter humor gilderoy lockehart rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| 4b1c62e | i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 78e8c3a | That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8a62b1d | Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache. | christianity god philosophy satan jesus-christ | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| f0822d9 | Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't." -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4b530ae | My pen shall heal, not hurt. | writing satire | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 1875ddc | I don't care. If I like somebody, I like her, and that's that." He thumped his chest and made a scowly face. "Let 'em come for me. I will stare down the mob with their pitchforks! I will make a speech about tolerance and love. I will tell them the folly of their ways! And then I will grab your hand and run like hell because, Jesus, a mob with pitchforks?" | Libba Bray | ||
| 131a3d8 | Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them. | Libba Bray | ||
| f8150e7 | If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God. | Libba Bray | ||
| 69aed04 | We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion. | live die | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| a0cd2f2 | To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0482330 | Listen, now, you're going to die, Ray-mond K. K. K. Hessel, tonight. You might die in one second or in one hour, you decide. So lie to me. Tell me the first thing off the top of your head. Make something up. I don't give a shit. I have a gun. Finally, you were listening and coming out of the little tragedy in your head. Fill in the blank. What does Raymond Hessel want to be when he grows up? Go home, you said you just wanted to go home, ple.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1c721cf | Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| afda98d | Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5bd0834 | We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound. It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they're watching light that left Earth two hundred years.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| fd7d253 | There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future. | lies love | Laura Dave | |
| 03f2316 | The people who make a difference | Max Lucado | ||
| b83f88b | A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b44232a | I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange. | loving | Paulo Coelho | |
| c358bb9 | The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7118776 | Primal anger sharpened in his gut, brimming with a territorial, possessive need. Not a need for her, but a need to portect--a male's duty and honor. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 86d4510 | Sartaq chuckled. "I did. But I also told him that the woman I love now plans to head into war. And I intend to follow her." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4cc1c86 | We fear that which we cannot see. | Tite Kubo | ||
| 9f53534 | Rosethorn had gone to her room the moment Niko started to cough. Now she returned with her syrup and a firm look in her eye. "I thought you were having trouble last night. Drink this." She poured some into a cup and held it out to him. Niko looked at it as if she offered him rotten fish. "I am fine. I am per-" He couldn't even finish the sentence for coughing. "It's not bad," said Tris, crossing her fingers behind her back. "Really, tastes .. | niko tris | Tamora Pierce | |
| dd67182 | I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp | Tamora Pierce | ||
| b3b42af | I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter? | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| f610bfa | And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dc897df | I'll never be like this again . . . I'll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills and as strong as the sea. I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back. And the is giving it back, too. No human could live like this. You could spend a day looking at a flower to see how wonderful it is, and that wouldn't get the milking done. No wonder we dream our way through our lives. To b.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8770992 | I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand | Andrew Solomon | ||
| f781395 | Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 2704a99 | It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| ff55108 | And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky. | Donna Tartt |