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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| faba66e | If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 442e19d | They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all. | historical-fiction last-lines literature retelling | John Champlin Gardner | |
| 873e3b0 | I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye. | boelyn henry katherine king mary queen | Philippa Gregory | |
| 443c5c6 | For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact. | philosophical | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 0f19ba7 | I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy." I had been tracked, like a bear. "Sorry to make you go to all that trouble," I said. "I didn't have to go that far, really. You're about three streets over. You just kept going in loops." A really inept bear." | tracking winnie-the-pooh winter | Maureen Johnson | |
| 67d01ba | Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. | James Baldwin | ||
| 366795b | I speak for everyone here today," he tells us, "when I say that you two--Lily and Loren--are the strongest people we've all ever had the honor to meet." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 83eba5d | Our love is rare. It's one I can't abandon, even if I tried. When she screams, an identical one rips through me. When she cries, my world rains with grief. When she loves, I truly, truly fly. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 8331eb7 | Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 0712eb0 | We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men. Unamuno might be describing the artist as well as the Christian as he writes, "Those who believe they believe in God, but w.. | christian-living doubt faith god suffering | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 4fca035 | All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7e3e025 | I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 985ee76 | La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio. | friendship | Isabel Allende | |
| 9b40dab | One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the major difference between a zoo and the wild is the absence of parasites and enemies and the abundance of food in the first, and their respective abundance and scarcity in the second. Think about it yourself. Would you rather be put up at the Ritz with free room service and unlimited access to a doctor or be homeless without a s.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 030df7a | No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face." | death depressing fred harry-potter j-k-rowling loss sad so-many-feels why | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1a00498 | Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've done everyone a favor. . . . | harry-potter horcrux moaning-myrtle ron-weasley tom-riddle | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2e75c5b | Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 65a5c6f | Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 4457c20 | It was what she'd most enjoyed about being married to Jim. It wasn't only the heady flush of emotions when they'd made love that enthralled her; more than that, it was the lazy mornings they'd spent reading the newspaper in bed while drinking coffee, or the cold December mornings they'd planted bulbs in the garden, or the hours they'd spent traipsing through various stores, picking out bedroom furniture, debating cherry or maple. Those were.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2d22ec2 | But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 988dce4 | The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we'll find a way to make it work. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5fc41e7 | The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable. | men true world | Libba Bray | |
| d7d705a | I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it. | details gemma-doyle libba-bray truth | Libba Bray | |
| 6f76526 | We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time. | identity light | Libba Bray | |
| c1776fc | In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won't even need a pencil. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8ace5a1 | If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love. | unloved | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| a2166b1 | I just don't want to die without a few scars. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3b22976 | Some people still think knowledge is power. | knowledge palahniuk power | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| bf32f1b | Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. | ever known original | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| eb50e44 | My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1cf7d01 | You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falli.. | resilience | Maya Angelou | |
| 8bd6e33 | How can you know what is missing if you've never met it? You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| c8e2082 | We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly. | death | Max Lucado | |
| bbcd667 | and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. | love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0c415e9 | What kills a relationship between two people is precisely the lack of challenge, the feeling that nothing is new anymore. We need to continue to be a surprise for each other. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f5d0838 | The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 2d9b34f | I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| ed733f4 | A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| dcbd48b | Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0d0f6f5 | A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. | Ursula K. LeGuin | ||
| 36319c5 | The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. | novel reading | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 99cc6c1 | Fear could break a line faster than any enemy charge. | empire-of-storms fear fight strength war | Sarah J. Maas | |
| af7bcc6 | Before you start yelling . . . , | tamlin | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b5fff4e | No going back now," Cassian said to Rhys, gesturing to his wings. Rhys slid his hands into his pockets. "I figure it's time for the world to know who really has the largest wingspan." Cassian laughed, and even Azriel smiled. Mor gave me a look that had me biting my lip to keep from howling." | Sarah J. Maas |