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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ffe7392 | It never works out! *kicks rock, it hits a window, sirens go off* (iggy) Uh oh. (max) Up and away guys! Come on iggy, we gotta go. (iggy) No. *sits down* (max) Iggy, come on! (iggy) No! It's different for you, you don't know what it's like, Yeah I make jokes- I'm the blind kid, but don't you see? Every time we move I'm lost all over again, you guys- It's much easier for you. Even your lost isn't as bad as my lost. You know *sirens coming cl.. | give-up iggy max maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 3b829ea | QUINN; You always look after Number One, don't you? ASH; Doesn't everybody? | L.J. Smith | ||
| 8115604 | The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image. | truth wisdom | L.J. Smith | |
| 1be9323 | To touch him in ways he'd never been touched before, this person who, beyond all logic, was the other half of her. Who belonged to her. Who was her soulmate. | L.J. Smith | ||
| 19a6831 | Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e4df4cb | 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 | |
| 03bc0f6 | take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing | Charles Bukowski | ||
| c0e2678 | I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too du.. | hollywood | Charles Bukowski | |
| 00bd1e3 | there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 99dd1a6 | Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious. | poetry writing | Charles Bukowski | |
| 6e61794 | She bent forward to look, then gave a startled little cry and drew back. There was indeed a seed lying in the palm of his hand, but it was shaped exactly like a long, sharply-pointed thorn... 'The seed looks very sharp,' she said shrinkingly. 'Won't it hurt if you put it into my heart?' He answered gently, 'It is so sharp that it slips in very quickly. But, Much-Afraid, I have already warned you that Love and Pain go together, for a time at.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| e4f2d06 | He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart. | heart heartless heartlessness horror human-nature monster murder psychopath psychopaths serial-killer soul the-silence-of-the-lambs | Thomas Harris | |
| de3a2f6 | Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh. - "LOVE'S SECRET" -- | William Blake | ||
| 62b7909 | Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and--sans End! Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after some To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There." | Omar Khayyam | ||
| 1020c53 | Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my chang.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 8cbf5b2 | Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. | David Mitchell | ||
| 966a538 | A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable. | giving-up humor inspirational science | Anne McCaffrey | |
| d868519 | We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers | vegan vegetarian | Peter Singer | |
| fffea83 | Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the ma.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 88c0fe3 | Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| c78d5ff | But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 7cb37d3 | William leaned forward and pointed at the river. "I don't know why you rolled in spaghetti sauce," he said in a confidential voice. "I don't really care. But that water over there won't hurt you. Try washing it off." She stuck her tongue out. "Maybe after you're clean," he said. Her eyes widened. She stared at him for a long moment. A little crazy spark lit up in her dark irises. She raised her finger, licked it, and rubbed some dirt off he.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 27efba9 | At first glance you looked at Kate and thought "fighter," maybe merc. Five inches taller than me, she was all muscle--well, and some boobs--but mostly muscle. She moved like a predator and when she got pissed off, she exhaled aggression, like hot breath on a winter evening. Still, men looked, until they saw her eyes. Kate's eyes were crazy. It was that hidden-deep crazy that told you that you had no idea what the hell she would do next but .. | ilona-andrews kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 73da51a | Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9322323 | We don't need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns. How do you know he is a sex fiend? He is fifteen and he's a bouda. Hello? | ascanio kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 1244d07 | reality, the name we give to the common experience. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 01c039a | Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 483ec9b | I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 224369c | God help the man who ever really loves you. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 70c57a9 | I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right nam.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| eacda31 | I looked the word up in the dictionary, it said: Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. My great-grandmother, from stories I've heard, was a feminist. She ran away from the house of the man she did not want to marry and married the man of her choice. She refused, protested, spoke up when she felt she was being deprived of land and access because she was female. She did not know that wor.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ced6844 | You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write! | Nikolai V. Gogol | ||
| 07eb397 | One can never had too many librarian friends. | librarians | Jennifer Chiaverini | |
| fb8190b | The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our sou.. | elizabeth gilbert | ||
| e502a42 | I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 75ff748 | How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final tim.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 381e793 | If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b899244 | A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8fe6d21 | For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the bed we wake up in in the morning and it is astonishing how fragile that can be. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 41377dc | The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fea4638 | Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big sound. | humor men sex | Lorrie Moore | |
| e0162f3 | Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention. | Robert Greene | ||
| 1267daa | People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it. | freedom lifestyle people | Jeannette Walls | |
| 4fffd9f | Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it." | Joseph Heller |