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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f1f945a | Change is] the only evidence of life. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 64a52da | Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 803a817 | Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? | Thomas Hardy | ||
| d4cd768 | I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her. | Graham Greene | ||
| fbda227 | I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I did...I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| b797259 | Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life? | Amy Hempel | ||
| b4ae033 | Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| cf274cc | He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. | humour | Oscar Wilde | |
| aa10b79 | We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us. | jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8485c61 | The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| bf41152 | Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I've been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. 'Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?' 'I do not,' she said, with a whispered laugh. 'You do,' he said. 'Fortunately, I like rabbits. | rabbits tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1c021ef | Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive." "Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?" "Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 54233ae | The story that I love you, it has no end. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 6449622 | He cut her off with brutal precision. "And one last thing." His eyes flicked toward the door, through which Jace, Alec, and Isabelle had disappeared. "Keep in mind that when your mother fled from the Shadow World, it wasn't the monsters she was hiding from. Not the warlocks, the wolf-men, the Fair Folk, not even the demons themselves. It was them. It was the Shadowhunters." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b3dcb6f | Julian: "Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks." Emma: "You think that's what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?" Julian: "I admit it seems like a letdown." | emma-carstairs julian-blackthorn lord-of-shadows spiral-labyrinth tessa-gray wikipedia | Cassandra Clare | |
| ec1b0a9 | Will gave a short, disbelieving laugh. "It's true," he said. "I am no hero." "No," Tessa said. "You are a person, just like me." His eyes searched her face, mystified; she held his hand tighter, lacing her fingers with his. "Don't you see, Will? You're a person like me. You are like me. You say the things I think but never say out loud. You read the books I read. You love the poetry I love. You make me laugh with your ridiculous songs and t.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9dc4d1c | If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c1de41c | Have a little faith in my magic fingers | magnus-bane sarah-rees-brennan | Cassandra Clare | |
| 36e0870 | What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself? | crying sorrow | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2f9b736 | Enough of what? Enough of behaving as you do. Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what you sister said to me when | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 1396a24 | Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest... | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 21ce238 | You swore to stay with me," he said. "When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James." "We are two people," said Jem. "Two people with a covenant between us." Will knew he sounded like a child, but he could not help it. "A covenant that says you must not go where I cannot come with you." "Until death," Jem replied gently. "Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee and me.' Someda.. | parabatai tid will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| e05bdd3 | By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?" | will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9bb2ab5 | He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 7bf7d7e | You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| efbc185 | Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c410047 | A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame... as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8d9979b | Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 093e131 | When her blue-black eyes lifted to his, everything disappeared. Their bodies dematerialized. The room they were in ceased to exist. Time became nothing. And in the void, in the wormhold, Wrath's chest opened up sure as if he'd been shot, a piercing pain licking over his nerve endings. He knew then that there are many ways for a heart to break. Sometimes it's from the crowding of life, the compression of responsibility and birthright and bu.. | j-r-ward paranormal | J.R. Ward | |
| a2ab2d8 | The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament. He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low. But the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sur.. | jesus | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| d8745f8 | Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f98a4dd | Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 7f17554 | Okay? Okay. | John Green | ||
| fe2a1b4 | My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn't want to but I did. | John Green | ||
| 3a5aef1 | Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 300f5b7 | I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same. | Dai Sijie | ||
| 7a96fe3 | no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 8f7d510 | Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one | Edward Gorey | ||
| 9dfae9a | The chef turned back to the housekeeper. "Why is there doubt about the relations between Monsieur and Madame Rutledge?" The sheets," she said succinctly. Jake nearly choked on his pastry. "You have the housemaids spying on them?" he asked around a mouthful of custard and cream. Not at all," the housekeeper said defensively. "It's only that we have vigilant maids who tell me everything. And even if they didn't, one hardly needs great powers .. | marriage vegetables | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 1a72499 | Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. "No, the divorce was great," I said. "It was the marriage that sucked." | divorce | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 212b3a7 | What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution! | John Irving | ||
| 348d73d | There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not born, whether he lived or ceased to live. Life was insignificant and death without consequence. Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders: it seemed to him that the last burden of responsibility was taken from him; and for the first time he was utterly free. His i.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| eb1bb26 | Be brave | Veronica Roth | ||
| 5d52a94 | Sometimes pain is for the greater good. | Veronica Roth |