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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 460c304 | Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats. | scarcity society stress vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| 73ba82b | A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 2b057e1 | You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted! | Thomas Hardy | ||
| fce3c1e | Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 9ce3717 | We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer. | O. Henry | ||
| bf6f72c | The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and s.. | exploration science solar-system | Carl Sagan | |
| ed6d88c | The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. | secrets trust truth | Lisa Unger | |
| 74a6a6f | When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 9e29ed5 | the person in this picture is really me. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 6ded89e | I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the lan.. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 2e126cd | People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. | stupidity truth | Max Barry | |
| 8799972 | We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication--we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling t.. | walls | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 3f01950 | How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely... | Joseph Delaney | ||
| d58d4d0 | I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. | beauty colours oscar-wilde painting the-picture-of-dorian-gray | Oscar Wilde | |
| 27d3c1c | I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 032c911 | Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable | wit | Oscar Wilde | |
| 21802be | I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8b68676 | She wondered why she'd ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 251b118 | Is this the girl?" Kieran's voice was very different: It sounded like waves sliding up the shore. Like warm water under pale light. It was seductive, with an edge of cold. He looked at Emma as if she were a new kind of flower, one he wasn't sure he liked. "She's pretty," he said. "I didn't think she'd be pretty. You didn't mention it." Iarlath shrugged. "You've always been partial to blondes," he said. "Okay, seriously?" Emma snapped her fi.. | sarcasm sassy | Cassandra Clare | |
| bda717b | Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew. - Sophie and Gideon Lightwood | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c980a4f | The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 52fe324 | This is my mother's wedding,"<<" she said. "We're not going to have sex. At all." "But 'at all' is my favorite way to have sex." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f6ac322 | You bled on the Speaking stars ...I bet there's a law somewhere about that. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| f784ba8 | Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?" "Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti." -Clary & Jace, pg.310-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 899b96c | As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out." | isabelle-lightwood sarcasm | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7cd76c2 | I don't want the world. I want you," Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0acea56 | I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." | evil good torment | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2db0152 | It was Will, filling the doorway with his lanky, broad-shouldred frame. His blue eyes where thunderous. "What are you doing here?" he demanded. So much for the brief peace they had achieved the night before. "I am practicing," Cecily said. "You told me I would get no better without practice." "Not you. Gabriel Lightworm over here." Will jerked his chin toward the other boy. "Sorry. ." | gabriel-lightwood humor will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| ef87e04 | It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| fac37b0 | I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours. | cassandra-clare clockwork-angel clockwork-prince jem-carstairs | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0b6ec52 | He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking. | cassandra-clare love magnus-bane the-bane-chronicles | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9456a3d | Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ee9cfce | And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman. | Jerry Seinfeld | ||
| 473d469 | And another thing. Don't ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. .. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c3a47f4 | But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know... | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b8edfce | I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 9b4637d | I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. | nevada reno | Johnny Cash | |
| 7c57720 | Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that's what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets .. | soul | Joseph Campbell | |
| b2c0385 | And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been. All that came to him was... | blaylock jr-ward lover-mine qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| ba57a66 | he signed. will | J.R. Ward | ||
| a3a748c | My Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now, one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, "If this isn't nice, what is?" So I hope that you will do the same for the rest of your lives. When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pau.. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| acb7030 | The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 0550d9f | I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure. | print-books reading | Susan Hill | |
| e9f3415 | The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again. | fullmetal-alchemist loss sad | Hiromu Arakawa |