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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cfedd25 | The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary. | desire religion | Tom Robbins | |
| f14e6e1 | Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ae169b0 | Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought that refused to take shape. Before him was the shining sky, below him the lake, around him the horizon, bright and infinite, as if it went on forever. For a long time he looked and suffered. He remembered now how he had stretched out his arms to that bright, infinite blue and wept. What had tormented him was that he was a tota.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c5cee95 | One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters. How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8506752 | She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 9029a9f | All romances end at marriage. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 9b86d7c | There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 15907a4 | Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth. " | Andy Warhol | ||
| 6c4d22a | Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| ac22d5f | What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ccc4d0a | I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 9524d24 | Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 5c66ff7 | Every movement reveals us. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| fef1a3c | Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 61c4479 | Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore. | Sara Zarr | ||
| e68498a | It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 0d0c7eb | every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. | portrait | Oscar Wilde | |
| 41a967c | My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failures. | imagination intellect loyalty shallow | Oscar Wilde | |
| 3af9ad8 | London was one of the few Institutes that hadn't emptied yet. Apparently Sebastian and his forces tried to attack. They were rebuffed by some kind of protection spell, something even the Council didn't know about. Something that warned the Shadowhunters what was coming and led them to safety.' 'A ghost,' Magnus said. A smile hovered around his mouth. 'A spirit, sworn to protect the place. She's been there for a hundred and thirty years.' 'S.. | jessamine-lovelace tid | Cassandra Clare | |
| dc1d1bc | Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." "Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ae18001 | None of this is fair. It isn't fair that part of your life was ripped from you. It's not fair that you were ripped away from me. I'm so angry Simon. | life-ripped-away memory-loss simon-lewis sizzy unfair | Cassandra Clare | |
| 59ff90d | Jace you already behave as if you've never heard the word 'fear.' I fail to see how we're going to be able to tell the difference if it work on you." (Luke talking about the rune Clary just created) Alec stifled what sounded like a laugh. Jace simply smiled a tight unfriendly smile. "I've heard the word 'fear,'" he said. "I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me." "Exactly the problem," said Luke. -pg.283-284-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 056b541 | Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no one in particular. "I take it I'm just supposed to wait out here until vines start growing on me?" Meliorn considered. "That might offer significant amusement." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 70eb6f3 | I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one? | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 76d5a9b | As long as she is alive and well and happy in this world, I will find a way to be happy as well, even if it is not beside her | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 14f0f11 | You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| fa6a76b | Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs, as he'd locked the door, when he'd kissed her--a brilliant, joyous light. And it was going now, fading like the last breath of someone dying. She thought of Nate, bleeding to death in her arms. She had been powerless then, to help him. As she was now. She felt as if she were watching the life bleed out of Will Herondale, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 08c37bb | A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had. | friend love parabatai tears why | Cassandra Clare | |
| 48ce3fa | I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats." He said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'." "You did not just say that." "You don't like 'hotstuff'? You think 'sweet cheeks' might be better? "Love crumpet'? Really? That last one's stretching it a bit. Though, technically my family is British-" | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| f49d01c | He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem... | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ef69913 | I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand. | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5d97e5a | There is so much in this store I can picture Magnus wanting," Simon said, picking up a glass bottle of body glitter suspended in some kind of oil. "Is it against some kind of rule to buy presents for someone who broke up with your friend?" "I guess it depends. Is Magnus your closer friend, or Alec?" "Alec remembers my name," said Simon, and he set the bottle back down." | cassandra-clare city-of-heavenly-fire clary-fray magnus-bane simon-lewis tmi | Cassandra Clare | |
| e0e96a9 | Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed ... that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy. | James A. Owen | ||
| 107ea02 | The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists | Spencer Johnson | ||
| 2bf286d | Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 29cc628 | You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 9556be8 | V chuckled. "I had to do something to shut you up. Every damn time I've run into you since I grew it, you ask me if I've French-kissed a tailpipe." (Rhage)" | J.R. Ward | ||
| f505666 | Next time you think of me like that , say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 97d499e | I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you'd wanted them and I could conceive them. I wish I could have told you it killed me when you thought I had been with anyone else. I wish I had spent the last year waking up every night and telling you I loved you. I wish I had mated you properly the evening you came back to me from the dead. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 5479881 | Just once" Blay said softly. "Do it just once. So I'll know what it's like." Qhuinn started to shake his head. "No...I don't think-" "Yes" After a moment, Qhuinn slid both his hands up Blay's thick neck and captured the male's sturdy jaw in his palms. "You sure?" When Blay nodded, Qhuinn titled his friend's head back and to the side and held it in place as he slowly closed the distance. Just before their mouths touched, Blay's eyelashes flu.. | paranormal-romance qhuinn vampires | J.R. Ward | |
| 08713f9 | Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 3d52718 | He made eye contact but he kept it like casual observation, not a fixed stare. He held his arms at his sides, not only because it was less threatening, but they'd be able to fend off a blow. He cleared the doorway so he'd have an escape route. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| e4465a3 | There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| b6abd14 | How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked. "Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging." | reading talking | John Green |