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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5ed5bfd | National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. | astronomy conceit earth folly human-nature nationalism pride science space | Carl Sagan | |
| 5977d96 | Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more. | novels realism reality writers writing | Michel Houellebecq | |
| d4a2185 | I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other. | Audre Lorde | ||
| ffcb5ce | Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images...it bleeds relationships through suspicion, lack of confidence and self-respect, the inability to enjoy life, to walk or talk or think normally, the exhaustion, the night terrors, the day terrors. There is nothing good to be said for it except that it gives you the experience of how it must be to be old, to be old and sick, to be dying; to be slow of mind; to be lacking in grace, polish .. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| c885af3 | I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. | Sara Zarr | ||
| cf0b6f3 | She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 14dc8ef | It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face. | lady-midnight lies life love the-dark-artifices truth | Cassandra Clare | |
| a03f2f0 | Zara: It's just a registry... Kit: Am I the only one who's read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0cb7344 | I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever--" He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you?" -- | clary fray jace love romance teen wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6fbf80f | Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle's head. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a0fb7d8 | To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been named after. Will's parabatai, Jem. | james-carstairs james-herondale love lucie-herondale protectiveness tessa-gray unyielding will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 95bab76 | We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 42491fd | Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." -Jace, pg.241-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f76a5da | He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission. | jemma julian-blackthorn lord-of-shadows the-dark-artifices | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8e17567 | My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace 'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary | clary-fray flirting humor jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 11a0ba5 | Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1399475 | We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. | life | stephen king | |
| fa84671 | He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts | Stephen King | ||
| c04f9ab | And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 1b8dd1b | People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. | moveable-feast spring | Ernest Hemingway | |
| a39b759 | A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do. | knowledge-wisdom teacher | Christopher Pike | |
| d47b46e | You bookish little pervert. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| ab2ceaf | Straightening up so the full force of that cold blast hit him square in the face, Qhuinn glared into the rush, picturing those pines ahead that he couldn't see because his eyes were watering from the wind. Opening his mouth, he screamed bloody murder, adding his voice to the maelstrom. Godd*mn it, he wasn't going down like a pussy. No ducking, no pathetic oh-please-God-no-saaaaaave-me. F**k that. He was going to meet death with his fangs ba.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 69548fa | Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people. | Marcel Proust | ||
| d72a86f | Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one. | madness | Charles MacKay | |
| d47ffcc | Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by "we" I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| fea0aac | All along -- not only since she left, but for a decade before -- I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town tha.. | John Green | ||
| ceb893e | Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it. | john-green page-257 turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| cd9d75a | And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth. | John Green | ||
| fdd5c93 | Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~ | Lora Leigh | ||
| 00de145 | I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| c7583de | Charlie, you're one of the most gifted people I've ever known. And I don't mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I've ever met. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 682f264 | Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone. | happiness ideals joy life | David O. McKay | |
| aa33d71 | Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong? | John Irving | ||
| d58121b | That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| fe42b22 | She loved three things -- a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| c6a99b5 | The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| f14695d | I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now. | Veronica Roth | ||
| cef92d8 | Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. | Veronica Roth | ||
| f16cdac | Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light... I just want to be pure. | Jim Carroll | ||
| 310e7a6 | Better to mock the game than to play and lose. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a7253b2 | Still ... in this world only winter is certain. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6184ed1 | I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they're like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day... fifty the day after that... and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they rea.. | Stephen King | ||
| fa10d59 | Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started. | Stephen King |