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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 15c86e6 | In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone responsible. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 23488d1 | The sunlight gilded the balcony as Asterin whispered, so softly that only Manon could hear, "Bring my body back to the cabin." Something in Manon's chest broke--broke so violently that she wondered if it was possible for no one to have heard it." | manon-blackbeak pg162 | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d67ca6b | Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love | e.e. cummings | ||
| 055cca3 | No. --Claire Bullshit! Yes, a world of yes. --Eve | Rachel Caine | ||
| ae581d8 | In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost .. | page-81 pat-barker transformation | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 3c77113 | Weren't all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other! | reading | Cornelia Funke | |
| d875f21 | Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user. | foundation sf | Isaac Asimov | |
| c85cf45 | I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new | Jules Verne | ||
| 2ac5a39 | There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster. | Richard Bach | ||
| 12cedb6 | At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 19b4db7 | I thought you were a drunk." "A drunk?" "Bloodshot eyes, dirty clothes, getting home in the wee hours of the morning, making a lot of noise, grouchy all the time as if you had a hangover... what else was I to think?" He rubbed his face. "Sorry, I wasn't thinking. I should have showered, shaved, and dressed in a suit before I came out to tell you that you were making enough noise to raise the dead." | sarcasm | Linda Howard | |
| c5def84 | THE BAGPIPE WHO DIDN'T SAY NO It was nine o'clock at midnight at a quarter after three When a turtle met a bagpipe on the shoreside by the sea, And the turtle said, "My dearie, May I sit with you? I'm weary." And the bagpipe didn't say no. Said the turtle to the bagpipe, "I have walked this lonely shore, I have talked to waves and pebbles--but I've never loved before. Will you marry me today, dear? Is it 'No' you're going to say de.. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 324c4e5 | I won't snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You're worse than my mother, Rachel." "Mine, too," Jenks muttered." | demon-dealing humor rachel | Kim Harrison | |
| 0b76c8c | A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor) | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 72ed062 | For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. | poetry | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 35acf50 | I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 5d0e469 | By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| d1c6dd0 | The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus. | Alice Sebold | ||
| c8d894d | If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 43ac06a | She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her fists beat against his shoulders, against his face. He moved one had, took her two wrists, pinned them behind her, under his arm, wrenching her shoulder blades. She twisted her head back. She felt his lips on her breast. She tore herself free...She fought like an animal. But she made no sound. She did not call for help. She heard the echoes .. | lust sex | Ayn Rand | |
| 20f6d17 | He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the fi.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5457f52 | It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have called his name - but I did not. There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.' 'I'd think there are degrees of greatness,' Adam said. 'I don't think so,.. | father greatness john-steinbeck mediocrity son | John Steinbeck | |
| 28bb841 | Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. | relationships | Gary Chapman | |
| 6488ebc | If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong! | Dan Brown | ||
| 869d346 | Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. | death life meaning | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0c900bf | Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror." | self-development | Napoleon Hill | |
| f30b7de | The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 700738d | If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win. | John Gray | ||
| 3e3b4a6 | n kbr tHdyt lrjl trjm@ klm lmr'@ dh tHdtht w msndth bltfhm wlt'yyd lmnsbyn llmwqf w lmsh`rh... w kbr tHdyt lmr'@ t'wyl Smt lrjl w msndth btqblh w d`mh bn ttrk lh lmsH@ lty yHtj lyh | John Gray | ||
| 9faee8b | Woman work a great many miracles. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d1a539c | I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!" | Charles Dickens | ||
| bc0ac88 | How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart. | pain sad | Charles Dickens | |
| 67d7fcd | She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 8f38150 | People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. | principles | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 1add014 | You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing'; and then, pushing a little away: 'Say you love me.' I said it.' No, oh no. You haven't. I was listening. And you never do.' Well, give me time.' Please.' He sat up and glanced at a clock across the room. It was after five. Then decisively he pulled off his windbreaker and began to unlace his shoes. Aren't you going .. | relationships romance sex | Truman Capote | |
| 7ad764f | Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a75608d | It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5783e72 | What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?" | gollum riddle | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ec60d80 | My Precious, my Precious. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ec1398e | Yes" Said Gandalf; "for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of out fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil." -- | parting sorrow | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9a20cac | Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two. | reading | Ray Bradbury | |
| 15793d5 | True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 792c845 | Love provided me with a tongue and tears. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 4908c0a | Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols. | tom wolfe |