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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 39bc236 | Sympathy is common. Knowing the exact shape of the hole someone's loss leaves in your heart is rare. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 3c4617e | Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Angel do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. | parabatai will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 1bf8dee | I think when we make choices--for each choice is individual of the choices we have made before--we must examine not only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| fa985f5 | I wish I'd a knowed more people. I would of loved 'em all. If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more | Toni Morrison | ||
| 8df2c82 | Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| f6b3b24 | Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 3726f46 | English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ef9245c | Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling. | government taxes | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 8328f90 | There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| e8618fb | Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f86d77f | If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 3485b66 | Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing? | J.R. Ward | ||
| ef319b0 | For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other | J.R. Ward | ||
| 11864af | All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 8355b80 | Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table. "What's doing with the hair spray? You boys going drag on us?" Butch held up the lenght of PVC pipe he was punching a hole in. "Potato launcher, my man. Big fun." "Excuse me ?" "Didn't you ever go to summer camp ?" "Basket weaving and woodcarving are for humans. No offense, but we have better things to teach our youngs." -- | J.R. Ward | ||
| 2971246 | No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given. Enough, Qhuinn thought. Enough with the excuses, and the avoidance, and the trying to be someone, anyone else. Even if he got shanked, even if his precious little ego and his dumb-ass little heart got shattered into a million pieces, it was time to stop the bullshit. It was time to be a male. | qhuinn qhuinn-and-blay | J.R. Ward | |
| 105cff3 | How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her...sweetly. | zsadist | J.R. Ward | |
| 5b83e01 | Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. | readers self-awareness self-recognition writers writing | Marcel Proust | |
| 7f7afb0 | Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. | art creating flowers marcel-proust wallpaper | Albert Camus | |
| 2c9181c | She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| c3e941e | The thing's hollow--it goes on forever--and--oh my God!-- | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 0ea6c37 | The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted woul.. | frederick-douglass reading slavery | Frederick Douglass | |
| c89a855 | So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. | Arakawa Hiromu | ||
| 8cce6e9 | I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie." | John Green | ||
| cfae796 | The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company. | John Green | ||
| 1bd57f3 | No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression? | John Green | ||
| dac33bd | I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I've always liked people wit.. | gus hazel-grace hazel-grace-lancaster john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 36d3cc6 | This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead. | John Green | ||
| f70e802 | Estoy enamorado de ti, y no me apetece privarme del sencillo placer de decir la verdad. Estoy enamorado de ti y se que el amor es solo un grito en el vacio, que es inevitable el olvido, que estamos todos condenados y que llegara el dia en que todos nuestros esfuerzos volveran al polvo. Y se que el sol engullira la unica tierra que vamos a tener, y estoy enamorado de ti. | John Green | ||
| a6e104c | Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of Becca Arrington's house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew .. | paper-towns | John Green | |
| 7b6ad07 | she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge fro.. | women | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 5d8af11 | You are a Cadogan vampire, by blood and bone. You have fought for this House, and you are mine to protect. My Sentinel, my Novitiate. As long as I am here to do it, I will protect you. As long as this House exists, you will have a home here. -Ethan | Chloe Neill | ||
| ee9c809 | Please don't hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy. Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for b.. | boyfriend love relationships teenage-love | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 99a9f9b | It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us." | Nevil Shute | ||
| bc0a835 | If I were to be made a knight," said the Wart, staring dreamily into the fire, "I should insist on doing my vigil by myself, as Hob does with his hawks, and I should pray to God to let me encounter all the evil in the world in my own person, so that if I conquered there would be none left, and, if I were defeated, I would be the one to suffer for it." "That would be extremely presumptuous of you," said Merlyn, "and you would be conquered, a.. | T.H. White | ||
| b984c76 | To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| bee8203 | What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspap.. | relationships settling solitude | Charles Baxter | |
| 19b6c6c | The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, | suicide | Edward Gorey | |
| 6f37aec | Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their searching hungry gazed returned to their own bodies. The questions, Whom do I desire? Why? What will I do about it? are turned around: Would I desire myself? Why?...Why ? What can I do about it? The books and films they see survey from the young boy's point of view his first touch of a girl's th.. | beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 915b675 | She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure. "You have to leave, Sara ... because I want to hold you like this until your skin melts into mine. I want you in my bed, the smell of you on my sheets, your hair spread across my pillow. I want to take your innocence. God! I want to ruin you for anyone else." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| aa53da6 | All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete. | John Irving | ||
| e5f1769 | These people make my family look easy to get along with. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 31adc3e | Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 8ca36ea | Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. | strategy war | Sun Tzu |