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| 020b056 | Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth. | inspiration joy | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 26baa96 | Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. | self-determination | Bryce Courtenay | |
| c121221 | Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 3f2cf50 | Bullshit reigns. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 0942239 | It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| c69e91e | Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling. | lestat vampire | Anne Rice | |
| 4090434 | Don't let the past ruin your future. (Acheron) Meaning what, oh great Yoda? (Kyrian) You take care of the kid. I'll take care of your patrol tonight. I could use the target practice. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 45a0f49 | Do Mom and Dad know you're dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I'll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 96964db | There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 561e9f2 | I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7fa7be7 | Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? | Albert Camus | ||
| c7aad5d | You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don't just wait for a man to come along. That's the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself. | Albert Camus | ||
| 565a8b7 | You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c0ef3db | I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| aa29810 | The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms and clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones. If such a consciousn.. | goddess inspirational spirituality | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 4b53216 | I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge, those that part, those that never meet, and nothing else, yes, something else, that I'm something quite different, a quite different thing, a wordless thing in an empty place, a hard shut dry cold black place, where not.. | fear insanity silence sound words | Samuel Beckett | |
| 8730099 | Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble! | Richard Adams | ||
| 55dcd84 | Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 73ef9b1 | So I'm into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man. | mindy-kaling | Mindy Kaling | |
| 7cf7075 | I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored." | humor nathaniel-hawthorne safety sarcasm waking-up | Jonathan Stroud | |
| 74c64c9 | The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. | sorrow | Cormac McCarthy | |
| f59b152 | How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order--willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeb.. | life living schedule | Annie Dillard | |
| 9f222f6 | Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it.* | William Shakespeare | ||
| 2a70630 | I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 7ca45e3 | La culpa, no esta en nuestras estrellas, sino en nosotros mismos, que consentimos en ser inferiores. | frases julius-caesar william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 3a23d90 | Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. | William Shakespeare | ||
| c59ffad | And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. | William Shakespeare | ||
| b09829f | Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. | story storytelling | Charles de Lint | |
| 3b7db46 | You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. 'You should have said it was really annoying, but I'd made you promise to come along to the Three Broomsticks, and you really didn't want to go, you'd much rather spend the whole day with her, but unfortunately you thought you really ought to meet me and would she please, please come along with you, and hopefully you'd be able to get away more qui.. | harry-potter hermione-granger humor order-of-the-phoenix | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2232f92 | We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this differe.. | death renewal seasons | Daniel Abraham | |
| 605b82f | Tr...ooooo...luv...' Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and they both pivoted, staring at the man in black, who was silent again. '"True love," he said,' Inigo cried. 'You heard him - true love is what he wants to come back for. That's certainly worthwhile.' 'Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile - true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that." | William Goldman | ||
| fb18fd5 | Our hearts yearn backward. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. But I no longer hope to be found. Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| a9835cc | Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. | extinction future space | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| d022a35 | How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| d58f20a | The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes. | Alain de Botton | ||
| bbed47f | It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| b7950e6 | I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street I walked north feeling curiously honored." | crazy death funny honor irony life mental poem poetry self soul | Charles Bukowski | |
| 8de4d3a | I could understand the moon leaning across a bar on skid row and asking for a drink, but I couldn't understand anything about myself, I was murdered, I was shit, I was a tentful of dogs, I was poppies mowed down by machine-gun fire I was a hotshot wasp in a web I was less and less and still reaching for something, and I thought of her corny remark a night or so ago: You have wounded eyes. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 9df616d | The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 7c86343 | Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears. | Thomas Harris | ||
| c6f47f7 | Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth. | Leif Enger | ||
| 404c03b | Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 7bd49be | Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1fc1106 | Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules; only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief. Belief is both prize & battlefield, within the mind & in the mind's mirror, the world. If we humanity is a ladder of tribes, a colosseum of confronta.. | humanity life-and-living | David Mitchell |