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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ad313a4 | One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 74245a0 | myw'lmny fy lmwt hw 'l 'mwt Hb | حب موت | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| bde4418 | The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f4afdd5 | I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that. | flat-earth love | Tom Robbins | |
| f941920 | Courage is like--it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. | Brené Brown | ||
| acae6b0 | I'll cry!! Ububu... BUEEEEEEE!! I... Ichigo, you thupid! Baldy!! Piece of poop! Ichigo: Alright! Alright! I get it already, stop crying! Nel: Impotent! Ichigo: I'm not impotent!! Rukia: What's he shouting about? | bleach ichigo rukia | Tite Kubo | |
| eb2bd63 | Good-bye and hello, as always. | eternity greetings parting | Roger Zelazny | |
| 1b041e2 | I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump." | humor joke uncertainty walking-the-line | Tamora Pierce | |
| 1f3bc36 | When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 17a70a1 | Reason is the slave of passion. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| df3c5b3 | Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6faafbc | Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely. | wisdom | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 92099a8 | These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 22a3c1d | Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. | tess-of-the-d-urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | |
| 14165db | This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f3fbeb6 | One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 70ac2ce | The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 06c8bb3 | I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 8bd02fe | I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there u.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 7b4ddb4 | And he left. I watched him walk out - he didn't say good-bye, he didn't even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that. | Sara Zarr | ||
| cb4c2b6 | Dear God," said Will, looking from Charlotte to Nate and back again. "Is there anything that makes women sillier than the sight of a wounded young man?" Tessa slitted her eyes at him. "You might want to clean the rest of the blood of your face before you continue arguing in that vein." Will threw his arms up in the air and stalked off. Charlotte looked at Tessa, a half smile curving the side of her mouth. "I must say, I rather like the way .. | nate tessa will | Cassandra Clare | |
| aad0bc9 | To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change | inspirational jocelyn love painting | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8e1b8dd | Will grinned. "Some of these books are dangerous," he said. "It's wise to be careful.""One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.""I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep--""Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry," said.. | books bookworms cassandra-clare clockwork-angel fandom fandom-talk literarature poetry tessa-gray the-clockwork-angel the-infernal-devices tid will-herondale william-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 95c8f3d | You've changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that." He paused. "Not that you should leave me," he added hastily" | cohf jace jace-and-clary | Cassandra Clare | |
| a517480 | Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you. | self true-self | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7cad7a6 | I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood." | instruments paint sebastian-jonathan war | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3b35b25 | Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when-" The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside." | gabriel-lightwood jem-carstairs the-infernal-devices will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| e644246 | If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239- | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b3a406e | Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak." "Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes." | humor miracles | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8a8b1af | Hell," he said. "Just when it was getting interesting, too." And he leaped into the water after his friend." | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5bbb9af | You're the only person I've ever loved like this, and I know you're the only person I ever will. And I'm not myself without you, Emma. Once you dissolve dye in water, you can't take it back out. It's like that. I can't take you out of me. It means cutting out my heart, and I don't like myself without my heart, I know that now. | cassandra-clare jemma julian-blackthorn queen-of-air-and-darkness the-dark-artifices | Cassandra Clare | |
| 77d2196 | To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead. | stephen-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7f98033 | Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8cde314 | She looked at him with loathing. "I knew you were crazy," she said. "But I didn't realize you were absolutely, spectactularly out of your goddamned mind." | jonathan-morgenstern | Cassandra Clare | |
| 07b46c6 | He hadn't wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he'd thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction. | emma-carstairs julian-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5d3f7f7 | But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. | Toni Morrison | ||
| cff6438 | If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives and maybe getting yourself killed . . . and even losing the war . . . when you've got a real weapon you can use to win? What's the point in a whole lot of men risking their lives with obsolete weapons when one professor type can do so much more just b.. | military moral-philosophy training violence war | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 836822f | I don't. I don't want anybody else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 00cba17 | No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 0d0a124 | Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead. | glory honor prize sith star-wars | Drew Karpyshyn | |
| 3f163fc | Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before. | motivation personal-transformation | Joseph Campbell | |
| dfa3a4a | You should never wish for wishful thinking. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 95634d2 | Those deep hazel eyes held his and didn't blink. "You'd be amazed what I would do to keep you alive." Abruptly, V's mouth opened, his breath growing tight. And as the two of them stood chest-to-chest, he knew every inch of his body, felt it all at once." | butch-vishous jr-ward | J.R. Ward | |
| 12bbf48 | You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her. | J.R. Ward |