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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6790ac9 | Be happy, Feyre. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d81950b | Then she smiled with every last shred of courage, of desperation, of hope for the glimmer of that glorious future. "Let's go rattle the stars." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| fcd2bef | Aelin frightens everyone...But not him. I think that's why she fell in love with him, against her best intentions. Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 26b901f | The queen looked at the nails, the teeth, and grinned. Honestly-it was a shame that Manon had to kill her. | manon-blackbeak | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e1aa2ed | Sam smiled, his brown eyes turning golden in the dawn. It was such a Sam look, the twinkle of mischief, the hint of exasperation, the kindness that would always, always make him a better person than she was. Before she knew what she was doing, Celaena threw her arms around him and held him close. Sam stiffened, but after a heartbeat, his arms came around her. She breathed him in--the smell of his sweat, the tang of the dust and rock, the m.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 96671a3 | Rowan had not possessed an army of his own to give to Aelin. To give to Terrasen. So he had won an army for her. | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f66680c | When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is. | Miranda July | ||
| c0d22ea | I'm so glad you're okay." "So, how do we celebrate my okayness? It's my day off. Let's go crazy. Glow-in-the-dark bowling?" "No" "I'll let you use the kiddie ball." "Shut up. I do NOT need the kiddie ball." "The way you bowl, I think you might." He grabbed her in an exaggerated formal dance pose and whirled her around, backpack and all, which didn't make her any more graceful. "Ballroom dancing?" "Are you INSANE?" "Hey, girls who tango are.. | ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine shane-collins vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| e88054a | Did you see my ninja move?That was fast, right? | shane-and-claire | Rachel Caine | |
| b882b31 | Gareth sucked in a breath. Hyacinth's brother wasn't going to make this easy on him. But that didn't matter. He had vowed to do this right, and he would not be cowed. He looked up, meeting the viscount's dark eyes with steady purpose. "I would like to marry Hyacinth," he said. And then, because the viscount did not say anything, because he didn't even move, Gareth added, "Er, if she'll have me." And then about eight things happened at once... | humor proposal | Julia Quinn | |
| 89e22d7 | There's a short circuit between my brain and my tongue, thus "Leave me the fuck alone" comes out as "Well, maybe. Sure. I guess I can see your point." -- | David Sedaris | ||
| 6b0daaf | Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. 'He might tell me how my story ends,' he murmured. Meggie looked at him in astonishment. 'You mean you don't know?' Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn't particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. 'What's so unusual about that, princess?' he asked quietly. 'Do you know how your story ends?' Meggie had no answer for that. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 9402e5e | Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| eba7475 | He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift. | Christopher Moore | ||
| b386455 | The hip-hop guy nodded curtly, like he knew that, and despite appearances to the contrary, he had not been trippin', but had, in fact, been chillin' like a mo-fuckin' villain, so step the fuck off, wigga. He crossed against the light, limping slightly under the weight of the subtext. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 98ce5cf | Every day is ordinary, until it isn't. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d508189 | Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 148ba6a | We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion. | José Saramago | ||
| d42a396 | It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d515cf1 | This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. | John Bunyan | ||
| df91da3 | Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sun.. | Richard Bach | ||
| e7d3057 | The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities. | Daniel Clowes | ||
| c3b65f2 | Al was looking at me in disbelief. "Not your lover?" | pierce rachel-s-love-life | Kim Harrison | |
| f12ebad | Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life. | Joan Didion | ||
| 62c85e4 | Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?" | ocean-eyes | Alice Sebold | |
| 27ad259 | A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack | Ayn Rand | ||
| e7e42db | I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark" | Ayn Rand | ||
| 69ec931 | Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes.. | law | Ayn Rand | |
| dac3aab | I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 8dc3bbd | It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him. | self-discovery | Anne Tyler | |
| dd52750 | We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 19e4392 | I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 16e7cf0 | I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know. | John Grisham | ||
| 7add241 | Gauguin was a stockbroker in Paris, married, had five kids. One day he came home from work and told his wife he was leaving, that he was through supporting the family, that he had had enough. Just like that he fucking took off. He said he had always felt that he was a painter, so he moved to a rat-infested shithole and started painting. His wife begged him to come back, his bosses told him he was insane, he didn't care, he was following his.. | passion walking-away | James Frey | |
| 5a1c598 | Not to be needed is a slow death for a man. | John Gray | ||
| c10b17e | And how did little Tim behave?" asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content. "As good as gold," said Bob, "and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upo.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| ff47c71 | So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. | estella failure success training | Charles Dickens | |
| 12f8a62 | But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 2d133b5 | Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. | rulership spacing-guild | Frank Herbert | |
| e2ec99b | Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 1456e16 | It's a thought," I said with a grin. "That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than the shadow of a shadow. Consciousness is not In the body; the body is In Consciousness. And you Are that Consciousness - no the phantom mind that troubles you so. You are the body, but you are everything else, too. That is what your visions revealed to you. Only the mind resists change. When you relax mindless into the body, you are happy an.. | consciousness free mind philosophy | Dan Millman | |
| 247cb6c | For nothing is evil in the beginning. | fate mortality | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| acaabcc | Although now long estranged, Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed. Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned: Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their ho.. | sub-creation | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 86b3ffe | For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but str.. | Éowyn jrr-tolkien the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien |