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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2e79bfd | And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e716df2 | You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me." | the-picture-of-dorian-gray | Oscar Wilde | |
| bfc5c11 | Art only begins where Imitation ends. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 30d4c26 | Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes, Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a51ece4 | I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do. | sweet | Cassandra Clare | |
| bc452e7 | My blood in his veins." ~Jace" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 4c8953f | Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| fefc3d8 | He picks up his dates in a van? No wonder he's such a hit with the ladies." -Jace about Simon, pg. 331-" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 5cc1fe7 | It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." (Jace)" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b182a57 | Look on the bright side," said Simon. "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway." Jace brightened. "It's always nice when someone volunteers to be the first up against the wall." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 72bced6 | If you're not doing okay, you should tell me," Jace said. "We're all under stress, but we have to keep it together as much as we-" Alec whirled on him. There was disbelief in his eyes. "Doing okay? How would you be doing?" he demanded. "How would you be doing if it were Clary that Sebastian had taken? If it were her we were going to rescue, not knowing if she was dead or alive? How would you be doing?" Jace felt as if Alec had slapped him. .. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 780b5af | Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion." "No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion." | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4346ea4 | Usually when you're in love, you're miserable. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 08dcfe7 | Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?' No,' Charles admitted. There y'go,' said Tummeler. It's cause they can't stand the goodness in it.' Can't argue with you there,' said Charles. Foods is good and evil, just like peop.. | humor | James A. Owen | |
| dfc0eb1 | Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1d4f0b4 | You are everything good and straight and fine and true--and I see that so clearly now, in the way you've carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You've changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That's one thing I've learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost. | hadley-richardson | Paula McLain | |
| 6687528 | Fuck. Me, "Vishous Breathed. "I will so pass on that, "Lassiter muttered." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 048ea79 | Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon? | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 56aca8e | Mr. Normal stepped forward and offered him a Scotch bottle. "You look like you could use some." Yeah, you think? Butch took a swig. "Thanks." "So can we kill him now?" said the one with the goatee and the baseball hat. Beth's man spoke harshly. "Back off, V." "Why? He's just a human." "And my shellan is half-human. The man doesn't die just because he's not one of us." "Jesus, you've changed your tune." "So you need to catch up, brothe.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 34dfe0b | Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good car. And we believe in you one hundred percent." ... "Don't listen to him, Carla. You're gonna do this." ... "I love you, Carla. You know that, don't you? I wake up every morning and the first thing I think is that I love Tobin's mom's car. I know that's weird, baby, but I do. I love you. And I know you can do this." ... "Ca.. | John Green | ||
| 8ade9af | We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at that time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless. | John Green | ||
| 6b87bbc | Every loss is unprecedented. | John Green | ||
| 31c7e75 | You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow. | John Green | ||
| 0adf533 | There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. | overwhelming people | John Green | |
| ddf4fe7 | Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves <...>. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 9861445 | It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 45999d0 | The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| c9ab1c9 | then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a3e5b0d | Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses- | death fitzgerald happiness rose roses sadness | F Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 86bc954 | Well, " I began,"I've been roped into shenanigans." Without preface, Catcher muttered a curse ,then leaned over slipped his wallet from his jeans, and pulled out a twenty-dollar bill, which he handed to Mallory." | Chloe Neill | ||
| ead0b2e | We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others--our parents, for instance--and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live. | dialogue life parents self self-identity | Charles Taylor | |
| d23b3ee | If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 7101c04 | No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who | wisdom | Brian Tracy | |
| 68094da | It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive. | hard long love | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 551d972 | She reached out and touched the king's face, cupping his cheek in her hand. "Just a nightmare," he said, his voice still rough. The queen's voice was cool. "How embarrassing," she said, looking at his maimed arm. The king looked up then, and followed her gaze. If it was embarrassing to wake like a child screaming from a nightmare, how much more embarrassing to be the reason your husband woke screaming. A quick smile visited the king's face... | eugenides | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 6f87199 | Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service. | humor | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 6246e86 | From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| cd51deb | The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No. | Alan Moore | ||
| 5cc284a | I am so ready to hunt down those tiny adorable creatures and give them what for," said Emma. "SO READY." "Emma . . ." "I may even tie bows on their heads." "We have to interrogate them." "Can I get a selfie with one of them first?" "Eat your toast, Emma." | emma-carstairs julian-blackthorn lord-of-shadows | Cassandra Clare | |
| 6eb2d31 | Mhysa!" a brown-skinned man shouted out at her. He had a child on his shoulder, a little girl, and she screamed the same word in her thin voice. "Mhysa! Mhysa!" Dany looked at Missandei. "What are they shouting?" "It is Ghiscari, the old pure tongue. It means 'Mother.'" Dany felt a lightness in her chest. I will never bear a living child, she remembered. Her hand trembled as she raised it. Perhaps she smiled. She must have, because the man .. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 26c6f2c | Wine makes all things possible. | wine | George R.R. Martin | |
| d56cdb1 | Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion) | George R.R. Martin | ||
| da95cfa | Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5236c2e | The way the world is made. The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good." She took a step toward him. "Death and life. Everywhere, opposites. Everywhere, the war." | George R.R. Martin |