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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62968cf | I was sentimental about many things: a woman's shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they said, 'I'm going to pee.' hair ribbons; walking down the boulevard with them at 1:30 in the afternoon, just two people walking together; the long nights of drinking and smoking; talking; the arguments; thinking of suicide; eating together and feeling good; the jokes; the laughter out of nowhere; feeling miracles in the ai.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| af0f0f1 | And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together. | paper towns | John Green | |
| 5f8457e | Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. | books fame independent-thought judgment opinions pg-84 reading senator-pococurante taste | Voltaire | |
| 1ef364c | You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 0319e36 | Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d021c5f | He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want to go on a date?" Caught off guard, she stammered. "A wh-what?" "A date," Jace repeated. "Often 'a boring thing you have to memorize in history class,' but in this case, 'an offering of an evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly." "Really?" Clary was not sure what to make of this. "Blisteringly white-hot?" "It's .. | clary-fray date jace repartee | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3526f27 | You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1d73b6c | To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 9a4d34e | Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word. | David Nicholls | ||
| 063e142 | No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. | cassandra-clare clockwork-princess death dying i-can-t-even mortality omg-my-feels the-infernal-devices | Cassandra Clare | |
| 67cd755 | I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1d50689 | Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. | women worship | Alexandre Dumas | |
| b6bcd69 | There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 916cfd2 | The love that moves the sun and the other stars. | inspirational love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 8d1206e | I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. | heart love pain | Yann Martel | |
| f0294c1 | I hope your bacon burns. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| fab5753 | People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. | overcoming-obstacles | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 9bda0c6 | I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 0b5ec08 | Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. "What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" "All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And .. | conversation gandalf good-morning languange meaning | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a728e0e | If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e4ca81f | I know so many last words. But I will never know hers. | last-words looking-for-alaska | John Green | |
| 564ca43 | I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. | race-relations racism inspirational | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 8e03dc2 | Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye." | contentment curiosity doubt envy foes friends hope idleness inventory knowledge laughter life love sorrow sufficienty superfluity unattainable values wisdom | Dorothy Parker | |
| 9d1f783 | You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human. | human | David Mitchell | |
| 87cf9c5 | Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship--be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviola.. | god idols worship | David Foster Wallace | |
| 5173989 | It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever. | kissing | Nicholas Sparks | |
| ed22be0 | We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7ab302e | He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face." | jace-lightwood simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 32e6773 | We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| c490279 | inspirational life | ???? ????? ?????? | ||
| 8b3f8cc | It's never too late to have a happy childhood. | children innocence youth | Tom Robbins | |
| 1fc5398 | A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of | Jane Austen | ||
| e2d6928 | You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. | silence | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 3ebe226 | To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. | soul | Muriel Spark | |
| 7875f6c | Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| f6c8c52 | Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. | diversity | George R.R. Martin | |
| 4086e4e | As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to get out-"erm, thankful for the aid of Hades." The lord of the dead nodded. He had a smug look on his face, but I figure he'd earned the right. He patted his son Nico on the shoulders, and Nico looked happier than I'd ever seen him. "And, of course," Zeus continued, though he looked like his pants were smoldering, "we must...um...thank Poseido.. | nico-di-angelo percy-jackson poseidon zeus | Rick Riordan | |
| ba3d8ac | Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. | moon romeo-nad-juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| c3f9580 | Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. | inspirational | Buddha | |
| ea04228 | That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion. | forbidden-love funny | Cassandra Clare | |
| fe4887e | You drool when you sleep. | drool | Rick Riordan | |
| cd9070f | Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. | equanimity future inspirational reason stoic stoicism worry | Marcus Aurelius | |
| 539d323 | I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. | William Faulkner | ||
| bb40ca4 | To be alive at all is to have scars. | John Steinbeck |