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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a44d43 | You experienced pain yesterday and you discovered that it led to pleasure.You experienced it today and found peace.That's why I'm telling you:Don't get used to it,because it's very easy to become habituated:it's a very powerful drug.It's in our daily lives,in our hidden sufferings,in the sacrifices we make,blaming love for the destruction of our dreams.Pain is frightening when it shows its real face, but it's seductive when it comes disguis.. | love | Paulo Coelho | |
| a1724bb | God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside. | faith fears god prayer recover | Paulo Coelho | |
| 72dadaa | As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned out to be, as so often occurs when memory and desire conjoin with a transient effect of weather, the pang of creation. The desire he felt, watching Joe, was unquestionably physical, but in the sense that Sammy wanted to inhabit the body of his cousin, not possess it. It was, in part, a longing--common enough among the inventors of heroes--to be.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 6cb14de | A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked: 'Are you writing a story about what we've done? Is it a story about me?' His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson: I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I'm using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.' Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn't seem very special. 'Bu.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b74f15b | Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ab58646 | In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together. | jocks | J.D. Salinger | |
| bcbf247 | A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key. | mouth star | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 8d13723 | Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... | Thomas Moore | ||
| 61cbb07 | Sam's hand brushed her shoulder, and she almost jumped out of her skin as he brought his mouth close to her ear and murmured, "You look beautiful. Though I bet you already know that." She most certainly did." | humor humour humourous lol | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 4d4364e | Hush. Your hair was so pretty. I was hoping you'd let me braid it one day. I suppose I'll have to buy a pony instead. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 27282cf | It'll be dangerous" "Good. It would be boring otherwise." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cc33d28 | He had come for her. She held his gaze as she grabbed her own dagger and cut her palm, right over the scar she'd given herself at Nehemia's grave. And though she knew he could read the words on her face, she said, "To what ever end?" He nodded, and she joined hands with him, blood to blood and soul to soul, his other arm coming around to grip her tightly. Their hands clasped between them, he whispered into her ear, "I claim you, too, Aelin .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| fad9607 | If you'd like to unwrap me," he said, lifting the large wicker basket onto the table, "we still have an hour until the temple service." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 15180b9 | To keep Velaris safe, to keep Mor and Amren and Cassian and Azriel and... Rhys safe. I said to Lucien, low and quiet and as vicious as the talons that formed at the tips of my fingers, as vicious as the wondrous weight between my shoulder blades, "When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back." A pulse of surprise, of wicked delight against my mental shields, at the dark, membranous .. | ferye lucien | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 335b762 | For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again. | love-hurts lovers | Miranda July | |
| 29e1d31 | The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. | life sail-forth seek untold-want voyager | Walt Whitman | |
| 5e7ea1d | When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping po.. | Julia Kristeva | ||
| 5b372cc | All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely." "I wasn't asking." "I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear." | myrnin rachel-caine | Rachel Caine | |
| 7b8aa01 | Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve | Rachel Caine | ||
| 94a0f24 | But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. | unhappiness | Jack Kerouac | |
| e35e0be | I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 547b3d0 | I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 3a6a833 | The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 950bb2a | O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't be getting it over at all, I can just see the big transformations and plans jellying down there to curse us up in some other wretched suffering form eternities of it - I guess that's what the kid feels - She looks so sad down there wandering Ophelialike in bare feet among thunders. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 6c68b49 | Life is life, and kind is kind | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 0144e5c | You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without living with her. You could not live with her without seducing her; but that was the by-product. The point is that you can't otherwise talk. You can't finish talks at street corners; in museums; even in drawing-rooms. You mayn't be in the mood when she is in the mood - for the intimate conversation that means the final communion of your.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 248fcf2 | It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| d3d11d5 | Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet." | juno | Diablo Cody | |
| bdc8f95 | I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 60b5318 | You can do what you decide to do -- but you cannot decide what you will decide to do. | free-will mind | Sam Harris | |
| e669d4b | You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows." | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 46cc389 | Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn) | Kim Harrison | ||
| e0a52f8 | The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo! | Kim Harrison | ||
| 5133c23 | From childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I could not bring My passions from a common spring - | loneliness uniqueness | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 2e2b355 | Hay algo en el generoso y abnegado amor de un animal que llega directamente al corazon de aquel que con frecuencia a probado la falsa amistad y la fragil fidelidad del hombre"." -- | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 834dd95 | See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| c011bee | How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 9981963 | But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been. | Paul Auster | ||
| df3359d | I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| b765ff5 | I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 896ce73 | And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus. | humor | John Steinbeck | |
| 2ae82ca | Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts. | on-writing writers | Dan Brown | |
| 77e9232 | Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. | adversity determination inspirational | Napoleon Hill | |
| 48ae16d | The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. | love | Lisa See |