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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f40f5e1 | Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand she showed how important it was to help others; with her patience and kindness she showed me what life really is all about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed . . . | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e514fdd | As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric? | julius-caesar stab | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a05c03e | This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 08724c9 | Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, v.. | relationships | Ann Patchett | |
| e7ca4a2 | By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are more than pretty stories and traditions to delight children. Or to modify behavior. Each of those three traditions asks a child to believe in the impossible in exchange for a reward. These are stepped-up tests to build a child's faith and imagination. The first test is to believe in a magical person, with toys as t.. | conditioning santa-claus tooth-fairy | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 0867e40 | If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 54c7314 | You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ebe6770 | Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be. | Bill Bryson | ||
| a6d46c7 | I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. .. | humor nature | Bill Bryson | |
| c1221e0 | How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d289499 | We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b102979 | We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 97fae73 | Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it. | travel | Hermann Hesse | |
| 59c0b5f | I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination. | wisdom | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6357d79 | What if we go on," he said, "only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?" Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. "Then it is not the end." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5079775 | I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be." | celaena-sardothien dorian-havilliard name significant truth | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 611a9cf | 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. | sam | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 5dd9013 | Why bother when a dramatic entrance is so much more fun? | rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2885daf | I think my heart knew you were mine long before I ever realized it. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 2fe4305 | The Crown Prince of Adarlan stared him down. "And consider where your true loyalties lie." Once, Chaol might have argued. Once, he might have protested that his loyalty to the crown was his greatest asset. But that blind loyalty and obedience had started this descent. And it had destroyed everything." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ac9dc9c | See what you want, Aelin, and seize it. Don't ask for it; don't wish for it. Take it. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f3aff04 | Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. | devil-s-due jazz | Rachel Caine | |
| 6353321 | He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that." -- | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| dc9026b | Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it. | humor | David Sedaris | |
| 9296fcd | Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance. | climbing dance hiking rhythm rock | Jack Kerouac | |
| 05f35fa | By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. | stories story | Christopher Moore | |
| bcaf9b0 | Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 09e9635 | Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure. | love vampire-hunter | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 285a9e9 | When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies. | Sam Harris | ||
| 8dc0831 | THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 0a27be6 | If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. | cynical negative nietzsche people | Cory Doctorow | |
| ecf70ae | Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 99df9fe | When we meet somebody whose separate tunnel-reality is obviously far different from ours, we are a bit frightened and always disoriented. We tend to think they are mad, or that they are crooks trying to con us in some way, or that they are hoaxers playing a joke. Yet it is neurologically obvious that no two brains have the same genetically-programmed hard wiring, the same imprints, the same conditioning, the same learning experiences. We ar.. | Robert Anton Wilson | ||
| a1c2430 | Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect. | Richard Bach | ||
| 6b23138 | Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child, Listen to the DON'TS Listen to the SHOULDN'TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me-- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 0de7575 | Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who put you up there, and your cradle too? Baby, | humour nursery-rhyme philosophy | Shel Silverstein | |
| 5afcbdd | Tink's a Disney whore!- Jenks | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7efb220 | It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the specter of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that answering it becomes out o.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 5033094 | It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive -- blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...] Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence -- by want of.. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 0b92bd8 | The living deserve attention, too | Alice Sebold | ||
| 420f832 | Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 810315a | What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a single thing you wanted, never had to worry if you'd be accepted or loved or wanted back." He stared at her, grateful for the moment that she couldn't see that he'd spent nearly half of his life worrying that she, the single thing he wanted, would accept him, love him, and want him back." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 0688f6c | When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct. | Dan Brown | ||
| e3cd036 | One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms. | Dan Brown |