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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d8456f7 | One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!' And a little later you added: 'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.' 'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?' But the prince made no answer. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| a24b645 | And that is why we can't have nice things. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8930f1a | Was I totally against the idea of having kids with Kat one day? Other than breaking out in hives at the thought of that, the idea wasn't too horrible. Of course, I wanted the white picket fence bullshit...if it occurred a good ten years from now, and the kids didn't have weird bowl haircuts and couldn't Jedi mind-screw people. | katy-swartz lux-series | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| a4109d5 | Can I stay with you?" "Always." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| beb41b8 | All aboard for one last trip. | frank-zhang hazel-levesque heroes-of-olympus jason-grace last-book leo-valdez percy-jackson piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| 7f5ddda | It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love. | truth | Rick Riordan | |
| 274648b | Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands of the Fates now. But you will never speak to me like that again. You have no idea how much I have sacrificed, how much--" His voice broke, and he shrank back to human size. "My son, my greatest pride . . . my poor May . . ." He sounded so devastated I didn't know what to say. One minute he was ready to vaporize us. Now he l.. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 949f48b | Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9dc0d35 | Another yap shook the room. Broken branches tumbled to the floor. "Wh-what's up there?" I asked, my knees shaking. I thought about the Norns' prophecy, naming me a harbinger of evil. "Is it--the Wolf?" "Oh, much worse," Blitzen said. "It's the Squirrel." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1130d27 | It's mechanical," Leo said. "Maybe a doorway to the dwarfs' secret lair?" "Ooooo!" shrieked a nearby voice. "Secret lair?" "I want a secret lair!" yelled another voice from above. ... "If we had a secret lair," said Red Fur, "I would want a firehouse pole." "And a waterslide!" said Brown Fur, who was pulling random tools out of Leo's belt, tossing aside wrenches, hammers, and staple guns. "Stop that!" Leo tried to grab the dwarf's feet,.. | balogna coffee dwarfs espresso leo-valdez passolos rick-riordan riordan secret-lair shiny-stuff the-heroes-of-olympus the-house-of-hades | Rick Riordan | |
| d027d2c | Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: "The cow says moo!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| d65d444 | The main thing about ghosts - most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it,' Nico said with a shrug, 'you're halfway to Asphodel already.' ... He hated when his own advic.. | ghosts wisdom | Rick Riordan | |
| 36378e5 | It's a training camp," Leo realized. He looked at Aphros in awe. "You train heroes, the same way Chiron does?" Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. "We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a merhero, and we have trained him or her!" "Oh, sure," Leo said. "Like...um, the Little Mermaid?" | humor lol omg-leo-ashjagshja | Rick Riordan | |
| 0f81897 | The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| a2a2604 | It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old. | me remember sophie | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 1d85795 | No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my othe.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 927ecb7 | It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3b3fbe3 | When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 1525a0d | You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn't necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e95e88b | Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up? | Dodie Smith | ||
| 08e8e87 | May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 48aa400 | I won't let you go." I blink. As if he could stop me. "You won't let me go." "No, I won't let you go. You're mine and I don't lose." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 76a9120 | Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 6d65399 | The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea. | opportunities | D. H. Lawrence | |
| 4cc79fe | What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? I could invent a teakettle that reads in Dad's voice, so I could fall asleep, or maybe a set of kettles that sings the chorus of "Yellow Submarine," which is a song by the Beatles, who I love, because entomology is one of my raisons d'etre, which | sounds | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 5a06fe1 | Isolation offered its own form of companionship | isolation | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 405e7be | I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d5935a7 | I don't know what it means to live. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 68395f9 | I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bbfe54b | How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous. | letters | Haruki Murakami | |
| 87fa1e6 | When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f34aa3e | Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e33d1ee | Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you all the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention. We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wonde.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b377606 | Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves. | parenting | Jodi Picoult | |
| 45dfec4 | Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 93c28c9 | Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ec61404 | I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0fda44e | The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 09061a4 | Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 09fe52f | When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. | Tom Robbins | ||
| baa7e1e | No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them. | empathy vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| de7c61a | To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anyt.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 6b987fe | I love you, Jonathan," she whispered. A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against his side. "I know," he said. "I just wanted to be sure you knew it, too." | jonathan love | Tamora Pierce | |
| 054a9c4 | For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |