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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5380892 | Thank you," Simon said. "It's a joke, Isabelle. He's the Count. He likes counting. You know. 'What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .'" There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. "It's not realistic." "What would you prefer? 'What did the Count .. | isabelle-lightwood simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| f0abe10 | Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind. | secrets | Cassandra Clare | |
| eaa2554 | Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. | Jane Austen | ||
| 00aff7d | Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces - and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper - love her, love her, love her! | Charles Dickens | ||
| 63cfc7b | Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 6f8dd8e | For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. | Carl Sagan | ||
| aaae547 | We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 94cf46b | All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e2d40db | Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character. | humor | David Sedaris | |
| f194cc1 | I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. | john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| e55eeba | That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| aac99bf | I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it. | inspirational religious | Mae West | |
| 164e665 | One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people. | understanding | John O'Donohue | |
| 42cb130 | If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt? | David Sedaris | ||
| c27e924 | Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| cf0b8e5 | Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. | inspirational life self-determination self-reliance anticipation | Dr. Seuss | |
| 4eca0cf | Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. | Joan Didion | ||
| 821cd5e | Children see magic because they look for it. | children imagination magic search | Christopher Moore | |
| c714812 | I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| aa6fdf9 | I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. | equal-rights | Dr. Seuss | |
| 1867169 | Why do I read? I just can't help myself. I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated. I read to understand things I've never been exposed to. I read when I'm crabby, when I've just said monumentally dumb things to the people I love. I read for strength to help me when I feel broken, discouraged, and afraid. I read when I'm angry at the whole world. I read when everything is going right. I read to find hope. I read .. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 533b92d | The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. | interpretation mind soul | Charlotte Brontë | |
| dbb40bd | What's this?" "That's a mango." Simon stared at Jace. Sometimes it really is like Shadowhunters were from an alien planet. "I don't think I've seen one of those that wasn't already cut up," Jace mused. "I like mangoes." Simon grabbed the mango and tossed it into the cart. "Great. What else do you like?" Jace pondered for a moment. "Tomato soup," he said finally. "Tomato soup? You want tomato soup and a mango for dinner?" Jace shrugged. "I .. | jace-lightwood simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| d501a43 | Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers. | dauntless four knowing-a-person suspicious tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 731f6c1 | If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. | citizenship politics | Yann Martel | |
| f4d35d2 | I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a0160cd | I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed Titan Krios with my own hand. And now I'm going to destroy you Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves." "Wow, dude," Leo muttered, "You been eating red meat?" | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 633ecfe | Do all the good you can | advice-for-daily-living christian-living inspirational | John Wesley | |
| 18111dc | Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. | space stars | Haruki Murakami | |
| 57ffd8f | Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..." | children classic nature spring | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| abeaabe | But this is touching, Severus," said Dumbledore seriously. "Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?" "For him?" shouted Snape. "Expecto Patronum!" From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Alwa.. | lily-evans patronus snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 37a104f | It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. | George Orwell | ||
| d3bac60 | We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. | romance | Jane Austen | |
| af82ff4 | He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| a1e97ab | Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift. | grateful gratitude inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 4250c05 | Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it." | thinking | Agatha Christie | |
| 71b0eac | I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| fec8c42 | Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?" "You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did." -- | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4f48e52 | Too weird to live, too rare to die! | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 79e98d8 | Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 26ff415 | There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5cea5d1 | Gaea?" Leo shook his head. "Isn't that Mother Nature? She's supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry." "Leo, that's Snow White," Piper said." -- | gaea leo-valdez piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| bab6d42 | There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 47d104c | You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. | giving poetry | Kahlil Gibran |