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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f2eab53 | Not all those who wander are lost | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2c26f97 | For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e398a9d | solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that God is actively present in our lives-- healing, teaching and guiding-- we need to set aside a time and space to give God our undivided attention. (Matt 6:6) | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3e4fd48 | Please nothing, she's a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b3f1630 | And not a single mark on the Lamborghini. Ha! Eat steel, you soul-sucking bastards! (Kyrian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b15c8b6 | Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 110e9f9 | Ooh, big day in town for our park warden," I said. "They're even making you wear the uniform. Hayley's mom will be happy. She thinks you look hot in it." Dad turned as red as his hair. Mom's laugh floated out from her studio. "Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone." | embarrassing funny-humor | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 1ce7fae | The way you move -- you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets... or gravity. You're like a... satellite, or something. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 4d1394a | No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand, i would only want more - another insignificant touch, another move closer to her. i could feel that. a new kind of desire was growing in me, working to override my self-control. no mistakes. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6675827 | The truth is, in order to heal we need to tell our stories and have them witnessed...The story itself becomes a vessel that holds us up, that sustains, that allows us to order our jumbled experiences into meaning. As I told my stories of fear, awakening, struggle, and transformation and had them received, heard, and validated by other women, I found healing. I also needed to hear other women's stories in order to see and embrace my own. Som.. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| d8162d8 | He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 3ada3b3 | Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. | foreigners home settling strangers | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 6b622f4 | I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 8ca0e4f | One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory. | sleep | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| dab2a80 | I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 3b495ba | I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. | Eudora Welty | ||
| 1e39499 | It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut. | William Shakespeare | ||
| f6a26d4 | More of your conversation would infect my brain. | humour | William Shakespeare | |
| ec19a70 | Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land. | Mark Helprin | ||
| bd4d88f | Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 248d170 | You wanted us all back together again!" Bonnie shouted at Caroline, and pulled the scandalized girl into the dance. Meredith, her dignity forgotten, joined them too. And for a long time in the clearing there was only rejoicing." | L.J. Smith | ||
| 696e31a | Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,--darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love." And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes. He closed the door in her face." | William Goldman | ||
| fe5266d | The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway? | William Goldman | ||
| f10b7bd | Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. | politics | Hannah Arendt | |
| 3ceb292 | You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live. | Harper Lee | ||
| c86627c | i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 0a617cb | People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ce6eba6 | I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now? | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| b75d1ee | I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it. | grief memories parents | David Mitchell | |
| e6e0c02 | Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special... | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 716b649 | To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. | release relief tears | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 07a0650 | She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours. | Colum McCann | ||
| 5d0bb0d | It's loot!" he yelled, standing on his tiptoes so he could get in Clarisse's face. "If you don't like it, you can kiss my quiver!" | michael-yew | Rick Riordan | |
| f36f578 | Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 825b6d7 | Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is generally shut up in a house with a human being at the time when he asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't. It would be odd if she retained any of the narrowness of a specialist. Now if anyone says that this duty of general enlightenment (even when freed from modern rules and hours, and exercised more spontan.. | catholicism family family-life mother motherhood womanhood women women-s-strength | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 84b083a | Need some help, Ass Kicker? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e329acf | Curran and Kate stood by the door. "I can't believe you decided to come down here and check on me," she said. "The guy once handed you a fan and told you to fan yourself if the sight of his naked torso was too much." "That was like a year ago. Will you let it go already?" "No." Curran grabbed her and pulled her to him, kissing her. "Never." She kissed him back and smiled. Awww. Kate and the Beast Lord sitting in a tree..." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1c4214b | On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all faint. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c47eff8 | Ah, yes, the trusty . If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, then shall I cease to exist? I believe, as Gorben and Berndt did, that any repercussions are already being felt. We can only change the future, not the past or present. If I go back, then I have already been back. - Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer | ||
| a7a2903 | HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it. | foaly holly-short | Eoin Colfer | |
| 6f8bebd | L]e philosophe n'a jamais tue de pretres et le pretre a tue beaucoup de philosophes... (The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.) | priests religious-violence | Denis Diderot | |
| cba5ca3 | He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c31b522 | If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. | goodness religion | Leo Tolstoy | |
| dd6d4fc | I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters. | into-the-wild | Jon Krakauer |