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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 89de42d | When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when.. | fluidity love | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| f10f045 | Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees--he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder. His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her peri.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| dbdaab7 | You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. | Nevil Shute | ||
| a415e66 | And things were back to normal except we were just friends. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| a3c9d34 | I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 6acfd77 | but my dad said it was no excuse. "But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much. "No, you don't." "I hate you!" "No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes. "He's my whole world." "Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom." | parents perks-of-being-a-wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| bf771ce | I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,"- Greg" | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 491c6fa | Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| b027575 | Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he a.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1ba935e | His lips pressed against her forehead and she felt him smile against her skin. "Believe me...the only place in the world I want to be is wherever you are." -Grant Morgan" | love victoria-devane | Lisa Kleypas | |
| cad8c39 | I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet. | sadness | Lisa Kleypas | |
| f625b8c | The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart | heart pain | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 7526269 | All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams, fantasies, everything I have ever read, all of that has been chucked onto the compost heap, where over time it has rotted down to a dark, rich, organic mulch. The process of cellular breakdown makes it unrecognizable. Other people call it the imagination. I think of it as a compost heap. Every so often I take an idea, plant.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 07934c7 | When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again. | seasons | Julian Barnes | |
| 598ebd3 | The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1f1c862 | It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. "Is there gold hidden in the village?" she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. "Is there silver? Gems?" She stabbed twice more. "Is there food? Where is Lord Beric?" She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. "Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, h.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 7cd69bc | And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 66a7bfa | Especially if he called me again. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 9037a10 | I think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't act on it, you'll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that's more convenient for you. | high-school soulmates | Meg Cabot | |
| 624c22c | Never venture, never win! | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 70ec8c8 | This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root-canal at a time; boat-builders go on one hull at a time. If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind us.. | Stephen King | ||
| 9ce4be2 | Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone? | Stephen King | ||
| e98562a | Some of this book--perhaps too much--has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it--and perhaps the best of it--is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. | writing | Stephen King | |
| 10feb0f | If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach. | J.D. Robb | ||
| d354daf | How did you--" "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned. His angular face softened. Startled, I realized he wasn't in disguise. "This is dangerous." "I knew falling for you was dangerous, love." | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 7eb795a | There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret. | gossip secrets | Alexandre Dumas | |
| c7d9d56 | My gast was pretty well flabbered. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d71e2cf | He rises from the throne. "Come, have a seat." His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible. "This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours." | jude | Holly Black | |
| ba16693 | Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. | inspirational les-brown motivational | Les Brown | |
| 75588d9 | Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars. | inspirational les-brown motivational | Les Brown | |
| c3de54b | Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. | inspirational | Albert Schweitzer | |
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| b9ad577 | I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet | inspirational | Helen Keller | |
| 02eb91e | When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful. | hope inspirational | Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S | |
| 1348ef2 | Convictions are prisons. | convictions inspirational | Friedrich Nietzche | |
| ec82b90 | It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves. | inspirational other-people | Ellen DeGeneres | |
| 1ef43e4 | people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d0f12a2 | Night, forever. But within it, a city, shadowy and only real in certain ways. The entity cowered in its alley, where the mist was rising. This could not have happened! Yet it had. The streets had filled with... things. Animals! Birds! Changing shape! Screaming and yelling! And, above it all, higher than the rooftops, a lamb rocking back and forth in great slow motions, thundering over the cobbles... And then bars had come down, slamming d.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6c4aed0 | Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography. | humor humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7104839 | One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4d992c1 | When I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. | missing-someone | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 8c014f7 | If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives. | death sleep | Richard Matheson | |
| 6b014df | It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry. Imagine then the interest that surrounded Miss Wintertowne! No young lady ever had such advantages before: for she died upon the Tuesday, was raised to life in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was married upon the Thursday; which some people thought too much excitement .. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 78c7da0 | Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business | humor | Gregory David Roberts |