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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 615cdab | If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| bb50ef9 | I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all. | words | Richard Wright | |
| aa3b2b5 | What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive. | enjoy-life inspirational self-actualization | Sarah Dessen | |
| c58f384 | Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ddf15f7 | I felt wise and cynical as all hell. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| d15835b | So much good, so much evil. Just add water. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 57f76df | A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations. | happiness inspirational mathematical advice | Jodi Picoult | |
| 2ce928c | Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 0c41f8c | Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things. | inspirational | Ray Bradbury | |
| 816f3f0 | Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 88fd631 | Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| d5eba68 | Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. | advice caution cautionary inspirational | Robert Frost | |
| 2694128 | I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 04d3da3 | Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him. "Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all." | feyre heart pity rhys rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e60dab5 | Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear. | courage fear fearless inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 75926c3 | There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bd92e62 | What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you weren't hungry!" Simon was indignant. "I did not drink his blood. He's fine!" He poked the Chairman in the stomach. The cat yawned. "Second, you asked me if I was hungry when you were ordering pizza, so I said no, because I can't eat pizza. I was being polite." "That doesn't get you the right to eat my cat." "Your cat is fine!" Simon reached to .. | magnus-bane simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6d89c90 | People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. | Libba Bray | ||
| 47fa8ec | I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. | salinger | J.D. Salinger | |
| 9a027c9 | An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. | husbands marriage parents proposals | Jane Austen | |
| 7c8337f | Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes." | clary-fray inspriational pg-95 | Cassandra Clare | |
| d528f41 | I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e9245eb | It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. | the-movie | Dr. Seuss | |
| 2039d8d | There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then." She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from." | forbidden-love i-love-you jace-wayland love true-love | Cassandra Clare | |
| 83823c8 | After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. | John Green | ||
| 853e7ce | Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f4f392a | After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony. | happiness love torment | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0c714cc | Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fd5e507 | The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. | quality skill writers writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| f6cfb55 | Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet ar.. | perfectionism writing | Anne Lamott | |
| 07f4135 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. | literature reading words | Roald Dahl | |
| b144209 | When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, | Mary Oliver | ||
| a3c09f2 | I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can prete.. | stars | Neil Gaiman | |
| ecb0d47 | Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. | stupidity | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| b9986e4 | Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals. | John Green | ||
| f19f4b3 | Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things. | wits inspirational | Rick Riordan | |
| 00ff2bb | People never notice anything. | obliviousness | J.D. Salinger | |
| b6034c0 | If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable. | bravery courage fearless fight-for-love human inspirational inspirational-love inspirational-quotes inspiring love passion passionate-life passionate-love strength unbreakable unbreakable-spirit | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 13e9b70 | The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. | magic universe | Ray Bradbury | |
| d9626db | I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. | living moving-on regrets | Ned Vizzini | |
| 5f4bce0 | One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. | capitalism corruption government history oppression power rationalization society | Carl Sagan | |
| 0f8f97c | There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. | dramatist morality novelist poet | Oscar Wilde | |
| e3f70c7 | Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters." | scared | Neil Gaiman | |
| d61cfe5 | In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. | faith faramir optimism | J.R.R. Tolkien |