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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 82aa976 | The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said." | John Green | ||
| 2fae86d | still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live? | medication | John Green | |
| 282a138 | Ya'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. | John Green | ||
| ac73760 | Ask me if I give a shit. | John Green | ||
| 7c80798 | An incomplete list: No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with moths fluttering on summer nights. No more trains running under the surface of cities on the dazzling power of the electric third rail. No more cities. No more films, except rarely, except with a generator drowning out half the dialogue, and only then for the first little while u.. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 2743f5a | And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. | john-green margo-roth-spiegelman page-33 page-34 paper-towns part-1 | John Green | |
| cd1023e | No puedo hablar sobre nuestra historia de amor, asi que hablare sobre matematicas. No soy una matematica, pero se esto: hay infinitos numeros entre el 0 y el 1. Hay .1 y .12 y .112 y una infinita coleccion de otros. Por supuesto, hay una coleccion mas grande de numeros entre 0 y 2 o entre 0 y un millon. Algunos infinitos son mas grandes que otros. Un escritor que nos gustaba nos enseno eso. Hay dias, muchos de ellos, cuando me resiento por .. | John Green | ||
| 4235cee | I acquired expensive habits and affected manners. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. But nothing could have been less poetic that my seeing-through-all boredom with life in general and with making a living in particular. I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope-- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. But I did absorb a small dose .. | John Fowles | ||
| d522a4a | With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has to do primarily with distractions. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls--woman's normal occupations in general run .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 3e1fe7f | There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 9b973b8 | I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| ecf9423 | The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether - when you are limited to the school material and you get bored, you have a tendency to give up and do nothing or play hooky out of discouragement. The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading. So the number of the pages absorbed could grow faster than otherwise. And you find gold, so to s.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 6c3e4f1 | Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it." | bubba eric-northman sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 4ac3445 | We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it. Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking. Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of wome.. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| b55eb07 | You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your way. Or you could see that a woman is healthy if she lives to grow old; as she thrives, she reacts and speaks and shows emotion, and grows into her face. Lines trace her thought and radiate from the corners of her eyes as she smiles. You could call the lines a network of 'serious lesions' or you could see that in a .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 1b23e74 | Beatrix puts a distance between herself and the rest of the world. She's very engaging, but also quite private in nature. I see the same qualities in Captain Phelan." "Yes," Amelia said. "You're absolutely right, Catherine. Put that way, the match does seem more appropriate." "I still have reservations," Leo said. "You always do," Amelia replied. "If you'll recall, you objected to Cam in the beginning, but now you've accepted him." "That's .. | humor | Lisa Kleypas | |
| ec551c4 | I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. But now I won't have to." "Why not?" She asked softly. "Because I'll see the blue of your eyes instead." "How romantic you are," she murmured with a grin, kissing him gently. "But don't worry. I won't tell anyone." | merripen | Lisa Kleypas | |
| b143500 | I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short." | humor | Lisa Kleypas | |
| c9a154a | Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. | cowardice | John Irving | |
| 819739b | IF YOU INSIDE, GET AND IF LIFE SHOULD TREAT YOU BAD... DON'T GET GET | Alan Moore | ||
| 42295ec | There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves. | self-perception | Jacqueline Carey | |
| bd55893 | A nervous silence loosens tongues | nervous politics sex silence tongues | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 2587be9 | She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 0e23b6d | What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue." -- | Jack Vance | ||
| b35ff97 | I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for. | the-viscount-who-loved-me | Julia Quinn | |
| edad11b | So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 94a3eeb | Courage and folly are cousins, or so I've heard. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 57b5846 | You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time." -- | Meg Cabot | ||
| e29cd6d | But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. | life sun-tzu the-art-of-war | Sun Tzu | |
| 4afed81 | i meant what i said, and i said what i meant. | water-for-elephants | Sara Gruen | |
| 15decb8 | All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. | funny good-and-evil light | Stephen King | |
| c7e0b20 | Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache. | truth | Stephen King | |
| 30b2a1d | I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains. | mystery | Agatha Christie | |
| 825e87e | I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in. | Jean Rhys | ||
| a309790 | Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. | heaven reading solitude | Jean Rhys | |
| 90b3cb1 | Wolves have no kings. | Robin Hobb | ||
| ef2e3e8 | All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my wh.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| eb301f0 | Well, Valek, any new promotions?" the Commander asked "No. But Maren shows promise. Unfortunately she doesn't want to be in my corps or even be my second.She just wants to beat me." Valek grinned, delighted by the challenge. "And can she?" the Commander inquired. His eyebrows rose. "With time and the proper training. She's deadly with her bow; it's just her tactics that need work." "Then what do we do with her?" "Promote her to General and .. | valek | Maria V. Snyder | |
| e30f231 | It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kid.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| da615ce | Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today." | harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 7e1ec91 | Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith .. | harry-dresden magic wizards | Jim Butcher | |
| 2df39b1 | Bring it, Darth Bathrobe! | harry-dresden humor | Jim Butcher | |
| dac38b7 | Gandalf never had this kind of problem. He had exactly this problem, actually, standing in front of the hidden Dwarf door to Moria. Remember when . . . I sighed. Sometimes my inner monologue annoys even me. "Edro, edro," I muttered. "Open." I rubbed at the bridge of my nose and ventured, "Mellon." Nothing happened. The wards stayed. I guessed the Corpsetaker had never read Tolkien. Tasteless bitch." -- | harry-dresden tolkien | Jim Butcher | |
| 47610cd | The leap of faith is this: You have to believe, or at least pretend you believe until you really believe it, that you are strong enough to take life face on. Eating disorders, on any level, are a crutch. They are also an addiction and illness, but there is no question at all that they are quite simply a way of avoiding the banal, daily, itchy pain of life. Eating disorders provide a little drama, they feed into the desire for constant excit.. | drama eating-disorders mirror sadomasochism | Marya Hornbacher |