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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dcf39eb | I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9139349 | Something is always happening somewhere. | life | Mitch Albom | |
| f0ed528 | Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave. | identity | Frances Mayes | |
| 96ed5d5 | Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease. | approval buddhism buddhist-wisdom craving desire expectation fatigue fear freedom frustration regret tibetan-buddhism | Lama Surya Das | |
| e7751b8 | I'm sure I must have sounded like a fool and a borderline psychotic most of that year, when I talked to people who thought they knew who and where they were at the time ... but looking back, I see that if I wasn't Right, at least I wasn't Wrong, and in that context I was forced to learn from my confusion ... which took awhile, and there's still no proof that what I finally learned was Right, but there's not a hell of a lot of evidence to sh.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| ca37d3c | There was absolutely no choice but to cut her adrift and hope her memory was fucked. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 46a250a | We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas." | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a1f2ce6 | At least I want to get up early one more morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold water on my face and be at my work table when the sky lightens and smoke begins to rise from the chimneys of the other houses. I want to see the waves break on this rocky beach, not just hear them break as I did in my sleep. I want to see again the ships that pass through the Strait from every seafaring country in the world - old, .. | poetry | Raymond Carver | |
| a5c0eb4 | Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. | happiness life reading self-sufficiency | Saul Bellow | |
| 9d19577 | The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| dad0242 | I hurl my heart to halt his pace. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 33ebe52 | I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, 'Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c64efca | What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c6311be | What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the .. | sylvia the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 69ccc45 | She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life. | influence life world youth | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 335a82e | I give boring people something to discuss over corn. | sensationalism | Aimee Bender | |
| c0fe56f | If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 0c98b51 | Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 20bb77c | Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 6ffc53e | You almost got plowed by a cab. And if you want to get plowed, I will gladly volunteer my services. I promise you I'll be a lot--" "Don't even finish that sentence." "It was just an offer." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f5b34f0 | Listen to me, Daemon. This isn't your fault. I wouldn't change a damn thing. Okay? Yes, things have sucked, but I'd go through it all again if I had to. There are things I would want to change, but not you - never you. I love you. That's never going to change. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| aeaca2c | Then I guess I'll just have to try biting again" "You wanna try?" He leaned the curve of my cheek. "Let me suggest more appropriate places. I have this piercing." | jennifer-l-armentrout kayla roth white-hot-kiss | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 4aa2423 | Need is not love. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 74f9b2d | I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world | world | H.G. Wells | |
| 73097cf | Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your... | enceladus gleeson-hedge | Rick Riordan | |
| 7a512f6 | The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details.That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do? | Rick Riordan | ||
| d19f6e6 | Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0c572d4 | He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant. "Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!" The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 002b4ac | If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people. | judging shame | Tucker Max | |
| 73c7653 | A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. | cage girl historical-fiction marjorie-bruce old present robert-the-bruce worn young-adult-fiction | Jane Yolen | |
| d33ab1f | For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are.. | inspirational | Henry Miller | |
| 40b0a3e | I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| c71022f | My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you - are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, and drunk in? Or do you not want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one th.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 85d2375 | Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| b56b238 | It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| de752cf | It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a646f7b | And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 8e82201 | Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. | hysteria love | Milan Kundera | |
| 14af7c7 | Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f8b7c92 | Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain. | living | Milan Kundera | |
| d87b3b9 | And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, k.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| aea6f57 | She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw. | yukiko | Haruki Murakami | |
| d294855 | In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1f89eff | Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience. | Haruki Murakami |