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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 33f92b3 | You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 9f69c12 | If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6d37891 | So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| a397595 | So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy. | melancholy | Dodie Smith | |
| 1968f5b | I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold | Dodie Smith | ||
| ca4084b | She still hadn't caught on. Alec sighed. "Change your gown, Jamie, if that's your inclination. I prefer white. Now go and do my bidding. The hour grows late and we must be on our way." He'd deliberately lengthened his speech, giving her time to react to his announcement. He thought he was being most considerate. She thought he was demented. Jamie was, at first, too stunned to do more than stare in horror at the warlord. When she finally gai.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| ae9f3f4 | Your trying to take them away from me, and I can't let you do that.I'm not ready to let go." "Exactly what am I taking away?" "My family." "Brenna..." She wouldn't let him continue. "You are trying to take them away, aren't you? And if you succeed, what will I have left?" "Me." | Julie Garwood | ||
| a830e14 | By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat" | Robert Jordan | ||
| 0e6108a | If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 466ea66 | You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 7772189 | Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| cc3292b | I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 04f4f29 | One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence. | Nick Hornby | ||
| ff3c6e0 | Will you wait for me forever? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e98b038 | People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ad6a3ee | I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 1b1b6ea | I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see. | Walker Percy | ||
| 19bfdf6 | Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river. | Steve Martin | ||
| be1f17a | life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were.. | inspirational life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 62183c9 | There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e19366c | What you had could never make up for what you'd lost. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e67b4b3 | He's not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He's the sort of guy who wouldn't mind reading side by side on a date. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9c3c8f5 | She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7e28aa9 | Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d873576 | Caddy smelled like trees. | William Faulkner | ||
| 3c82475 | The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ad90763 | You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind." That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime." | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9cb4b91 | I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again. | David Guterson | ||
| 1119833 | I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on.. | loneliness love melancholy | Douglas Coupland | |
| c0cac45 | Mithros's spear, Kel!" he exclaimed. "When did you turn into a real girl?" "You said she was a girl already," muttered one of his cousins... "But not a girl-girl, with a chest and all!" protested Owen. ..."I've been a girl for a while, Owen," Kel informed him. "I never realized," her too outspoken friend replied. "It's not like you've got melons or anything, they're just noticeable." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 9fffe84 | Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me. | handsome infatuation romance | Tamora Pierce | |
| 436e04b | Although your mind works, your heart is | Dostoyevsky Fyodor | ||
| 6b85e2a | By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e32c831 | I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e7a09f4 | You can't eat straight A's. | poverty school | Maxine Hong Kingston | |
| cad9610 | I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep. | Adam Mansbach | ||
| ec36bc7 | When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself. | Graham Greene | ||
| eac2c9a | And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. | philosopher philosophy truth | Will Durant | |
| 5314260 | You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar! | poetry | T.S. Eliot | |
| 6f44914 | Watch that mouth, cher. I own a ball gag. I know how to use it, he growled. | Shayla Black | ||
| a682e10 | But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. | monsters | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 22a83f9 | I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81) | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| b55de14 | There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of ha.. | ordinary strange wonder | Richard Dawkins | |
| 9988c64 | As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. | oscar-wilde | Oscar Wilde |