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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 780c3a4 | Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. | ignorance inexperience mercedes-lackey prejudice | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 5031143 | The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 1c8344b | Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count. | details life | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| aaff289 | Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned, I do the poisoning. I'm the Princess of it | evie kresley-cole major-arcana poison-princess | Kresley Cole | |
| 20d29ce | I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be. | love | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 7184d37 | Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. | expectations open-mindedness preconceptions reading | Virginia Woolf | |
| bbd9de0 | I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn.. | healing hurt language literature reading words | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 5b9198c | Know thyself,' said Socrates. Know thyself,' said Sappho, 'and make sure that the Church never finds out. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 9e419ec | A thing named is a thing tamed. | Joanne Harris | ||
| e64f84d | I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn. | Anne Frank | ||
| 9bbd3b3 | How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. | Anne Frank | ||
| b6450d2 | An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night. | Anne Frank | ||
| 9d23215 | It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un." | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0f48672 | I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea. | funny | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| a578e4e | It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live. | John Fowles | ||
| 18c8f0f | The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love." -- | love | John Fowles | |
| 7decc90 | I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall. | Norton Juster | ||
| b34c19a | I am a mass of contradictions. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| ab87c63 | We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever. | James Baldwin | ||
| 8f7a38c | The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. | cowardice evil | James Baldwin | |
| ad87850 | I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. | Willa Cather | ||
| 018cc60 | Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. | fantasy imagination shadows writing | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 8b7e7e2 | She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e429bc3 | You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. | escape facing-problems fight | Enid Blyton | |
| cbce751 | I love you, Dais, because you're the wildest fucking girl with the biggest fucking heart. And without you in my life"--he shakes his head like it's an inconceivable picture--"I'd be the unhappiest fucking guy." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 4d8a5ae | What's going to happen," he breathes, "is that I'm going to carry you through this door. I'm going to draw out every single moment until you're exhausted. And I'm going to move so slow that three months ago will feel like yesterday. And tomorrow will feel like today, and no one in this fucking universe will be able to say your name without saying mine." | childhood-friends college-romance love-story | Krista Ritchie | |
| 6dccb98 | A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but by the turbulence that washes over her. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| c611895 | But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f43f3a3 | It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 56cda89 | And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything... | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 802b992 | But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not. | dumbledore happy | J.K. Rowling | |
| cc25bb0 | Celebrity is as celebrity does. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9734d45 | Queenie: People are easiest to read when they're hurting. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 123ea60 | Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1866597 | The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 4e2b57d | It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have. | tough | Nicholas Sparks | |
| d0cda5b | He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her. He gave himself over to the feel of her body as it pressed against him, and they moved slowly in small circles on the sawdust-strewn floor, lost in a world that felt as though it had been created for just the two of them. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 25cb4f0 | grown-ups always say that things are complicated. | grown-ups | Nicholas Sparks | |
| ad720ec | Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what's inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you'd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ef70dae | My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 757e68c | Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 352b43a | Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4d64351 | and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. | intellect restlessness siddhartha soul | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1d40c49 | That cocky smile widened. "Hello, bitch," Ansel purred. "Hello, traitor," Aelin purred right back... "Meet Ansel of Briarcliff, assassin and Queen of the Western Wastes." | Sarah J. Maas |