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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1768de6 | Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like. | inspirational | Ajahn Brahm | |
| f0ed6e7 | I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it. | game-of-crowns inspirational love | Diana, Princess of Wales | |
| add018e | That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 77a4761 | WHERE'S MY COW?! IS THAT MY COW?! HRRRUUUUGGGH!!!! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 78b7ddc | When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fd856a8 | Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available. | self-help | Terry Pratchett | |
| deda036 | One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bcb3be6 | Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.) | humour | Charles Stross | |
| 4c40301 | He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 8f8eca3 | America is, and always has been, undecided about whether it will be the United States of Tom or the United States of Huck. The United States of Tom looks at misery and says: Hey, I didn't do it. It looks at inequity and says: All my life I busted my butt to get where I am, so don't come crying to me. Tom likes kings, codified nobility, unquestioned privilege. Huck likes people, fair play, spreading the truck around. Whereas Tom knows, Huck .. | George Saunders | ||
| 030eaf9 | I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of e.. | cruelty dumb fat god lazy love pleasure weak | George Saunders | |
| 9d2ea14 | I'm so sleepy." "My beautiful girl, dawn nears. And all good vampires are to bed." She eased up, arching a brow at him. "Then you'll stay awake." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 7bfcd66 | Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup | Gertrude Stein | ||
| fa22627 | I didn't want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it's rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6b30158 | Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. | journey sexing-the-cherry travel | Jeanette Winterson | |
| e434444 | You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 25b2e4f | It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 58f4e72 | Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, and because it was not yet fixed to comparisons or chronologies or the ways by which adults measure such things...I just loved her. Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 49866e1 | Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 4d97a56 | I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way. ---Yasu | nana trust yasu | Ai Yazawa | |
| c39e587 | But I don't forget and I don't forgive. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d69e5a3 | To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a8f9337 | If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in. | humanity-and-society inspirational sentiment | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 9a039b3 | And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9d52e77 | If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself. | sense | Norton Juster | |
| bfe1389 | Clio realized. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 039b9ae | In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 5723e5e | I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me. | chaos order patterns | Elizabeth Moon | |
| 58433e5 | the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. | god trials | L.M. Montgomery | |
| e185f05 | Damn it. I don't know how to be a husband, or father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you. | evie lord-st-vincent sebastian-st-vincent | Lisa Kleypas | |
| dfb0708 | Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it. | inspirational | Daniel Defoe | |
| e5e9ecd | You can not stop you from being who you are. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a92715f | Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle. | E. M. Forster | ||
| b462e4c | Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill" | Gordon Korman | ||
| 15483ce | Why do they have to move in packs?" Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry. "How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9d02478 | Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back | harry-potter ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 497c281 | Yeah," said Harry. "No more pretending we care what happens when Jupiter and Uranus get too friendly . . ." "And from now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell -- I'm just chucking them in the bin where they belong." | funny harry-potter o-w-l-s ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| f4dbaac | They stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall," he told Harry. "Want to come upstairs and practice?" "No, thanks," said Harry. "The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it -- it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said." | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1069521 | Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cbe18fd | And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget. | loss love memories | Colleen McCullough | |
| 36f7ab0 | And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen. | Mark Haddon | ||
| c061d29 | Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 98f763f | I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bbc05d3 | I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last | Nicholas Sparks |