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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9501894 | Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility! | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9ead879 | Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 32261d5 | My mom says, "Do you know what the AIDS memorial quilt is all about?" Jump to how much I hate my brother at this moment. I bought this fabric because I thought it would make a nice panel for Shane," Mom says. "We just ran into some problems with what to sew on it." Give me amnesia. Flash. Give me new parents. Flash. Your mother didn't want to step on any toes," Dad says. He twists a drumstick off and starts scraping the meat onto a plate. ".. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 61cef2a | Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 158944b | If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95) | compassion empathy immorality morality reason | Karen Armstrong | |
| b495e71 | And I hate to tell you... but I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in a school. You'll have to. You're a student--whether the idea appeals to you or not. You're in love with knowledge. And I think you'll find, once... you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer--that is, if you want to, and if you look for it and wait for it--to the kind .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| fb3d651 | I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 58e6745 | And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life | spiritual work | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f7df11a | Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 871a69e | Celaena." She looked back at him, her red gown sweeping around her. His eyes shone as he flashed her a crooked grin. "I missed you this summer." She met his stare unflinchingly, returning the smile as she said, "I hate to admit it, Sam Cortland, but I missed your sorry ass, too." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 63117b8 | Aedion touched her shoulder. "Welcome home, Aelin." | aelin-galathynius queen-of-shadows terrasen | Sarah J. Maas | |
| dc190ed | i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothin.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 37630e8 | It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. --E.E. CUMMINGS | Jandy Nelson | ||
| 333a2aa | Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!" Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. "I swear, I'm going to start taking my clothes off!" The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. "Chicken," she said, and paced the room, back and forth." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 2c0e49a | Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all? | Esther Perel | ||
| 5218c85 | It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 2c47da0 | Nothing ever happened - Not even this | Jack Kerouac | ||
| e034af5 | I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape commercials. It had been dirty and nasty but I wanted more. | drugs noir prostitution sex | Matthew Stokoe | |
| acd8134 | Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies. | lies lust | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 7c8a62c | But he's Rachel Candy!" -Both Jenks and Al" | Kim Harrison | ||
| eac47ef | What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask. | Joan Didion | ||
| 8c156c5 | The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'. | black drinking stain | Alice Sebold | |
| 00f3cb2 | Because, you see, God--whatever anyone chooses to call God--is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0fdd93f | I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments | government | John Steinbeck | |
| caa090d | Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 675a587 | Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hand.. | religion | Dan Brown | |
| 2598df9 | Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason. | Dan Brown | ||
| 948be75 | Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends. | intuition intuitive kids love pretending youth | V.C. Andrews | |
| 2c72413 | They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so.. | dreams travel | Lisa Ann Sandell | |
| 37577d2 | It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep | James Frey | ||
| 923b082 | It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 9d0c8bf | Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change." | Charles Dickens | ||
| b09c14a | Life is a useless passion. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 34a7e5b | The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 6e31f63 | So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a3fc994 | Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 7ca0aeb | For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f4478b0 | Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ead76c8 | It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things. | monsters names supernatural | Ray Bradbury | |
| bb9d022 | To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 234a0d0 | Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move. | life | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7094530 | Put your good where it will do the most! | Tom Wolfe | ||
| c612c41 | People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 2cb4fbf | If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything. | Joyce Carol Oates |