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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ee0fd20 | Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us. | recognize | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 1d5e855 | I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you." | Libba Bray | ||
| 78c0ce0 | Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 69bd7bc | It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. | england fall seasons weather | P.D. James | |
| 193304d | He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 6355237 | He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 021a1e1 | If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness." | fear hope | Paulo Coelho | |
| f7cc9ce | You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high. | mountains quotes | Paulo Coelho | |
| 11bffa4 | The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight. | time work | Paulo Coelho | |
| 56cd75c | I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| e2339b9 | An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. | duty enlightenment hermann-hesse | Hermann Hesse | |
| 32c43ea | Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it. | ownership sharing | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| ea37c8d | Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court. My equal in every way; she would wear my crown, sit on a throne beside mine. Never sidelined, never designated to breeding and parties and child rearing. My queen. | high-lady mate night-court queen rhys | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 985dd8c | Dorian surged from the chair and dropped to his knees beside the bed. He grabbed Chaol's hand, squeezing it as he pressed his brow against his. "You were dead," the prince said, his voice breaking. "I thought you were dead." | dorian-havilliard | Sarah J. Maas | |
| a59a577 | His words were a lethal caress as he said, "Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?" | flirting love rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 7ebf681 | Can I see it?" She knew what he meant, and had held up her hands before her. Ribbons and plumes and flowers of red and gold fire danced through his room, bright and glorious and elegant. Chaol's eyes had been lined with silver when the flames winked out. "it's lovely," he said at last." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 76b3bf2 | There are good days and bad days for me - even now. Don't let the hard days win. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a5b228a | Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire." | shane | Rachel Caine | |
| 11c10b5 | There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. | Miranda July | ||
| fa41a20 | You're kind of a psycho. I get that." "I might be," Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. "You're one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now." Claire blinked. "Archaeologist." Monica's eyes turned winter cold. "Oh, you'd better start running away now." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 404cc77 | Seriously, Shane? Ditto? That's the best you can do?" Shane and Michael exchanged identical looks and shrugs. Guys. "Let me show you idiots how it's done," Eve said, and hugged Claire fiercely. She kissed her on the cheek. "I love you, CB. Please take care of yourself, okay?" "I love you, too," Claire said, and suddenly her throat felt tight and her eyes burned with tears. "I really do." Shane and Michael watched them with identical express.. | eve-rosser michael-glass shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| b34df4b | You are not my high school crush, idiot." "Great. I can die happy, then." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 9bdc2ed | All right." Lucy shouldered her way to my side and made a waving motion as if they were annoying flies. "Shoo!" She narrowed her eyes. "I said shoo." They dispersed, mostly startled into moving. Only Logan remained, leaning casually against the wall. "Darling, I'm not some insect to be chased away." "Darling?" She snorted amiably. "You're not ninety years old, either." He straightened. "I'm charming," he informed her. "And women like endear.. | lucy | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| f3c1c34 | Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point | elizabeth peters | ||
| 32962d7 | I did not run to him, but I did wrap my arms around him, press my ear to his chest, hold on to him as if he were the last solid thing in the world. He stroked my hair and murmured to me in French. I understood enough to know he was glad to see me and that he thought I looked beautiful. But beyond that it was just pretty noise. It wasn't until I felt Zerbrowski behind me that I pulled away, but when Jean-Claude's hand found mine, I welcomed .. | jean-claude | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 8f216a7 | It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| e0ec8f1 | But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 95b17ea | Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5c5a16f | People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change. | Sandra Brown | ||
| c334ff2 | Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float? | Nick Flynn | ||
| fcbdeb4 | Nobody tells you what you can and can't do. | Dan Brown | ||
| cc63619 | Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitant are, as the man o.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6be14cc | Luck, you see, brings bitter friends. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b2ceab8 | In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms | John Steinbeck | ||
| fa72f11 | A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence. | Arthur Golden | ||
| f6a4dac | Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh! | laugh | Charles Dickens | |
| db3a109 | Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead. | humour | Raymond Chandler | |
| de72c43 | Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time. | Ted Dekker | ||
| aacf290 | It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| aa82e4f | The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurg.. | personality | Truman Capote | |
| ec0ec7c | Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 15497c1 | Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b9aa2ed | It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. | philosophical | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3ef4d43 | Why, Sam," he said, "to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But you've left out one of the chief characters; Samwise the stout hearted. 'I want to hear more about Sam, dad. Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh. And Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam, would he, dad?' " "Now, Mr. Frodo," said Sam, "you shouldn't make fun. I was serious." "So was I," said F.. | J.R.R. Tolkien |