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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d14ad03 | Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. | Albert Camus | ||
| 063b78e | You think of me as a... living stone -- hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back... | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 4476302 | He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handl.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 398aa78 | We all have to meet our match sometime or other. | Richard Adams | ||
| 9645412 | Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. | Norman Mailer | ||
| c5e2cee | This world is full of trouble, umfundisi. -- Who knows it better? -- Yet you believe? Kumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret. Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering. There is my wife, and you, my friend, and these people who welcomed me, and the child who is so .. | beloved country cry inspirational paton suffering | Alan Paton | |
| 35c789c | I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well ye.. | child childhood encouragement memoir memories writers writing young | Anne Lamott | |
| 3eefc28 | Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks. "Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 5c2eacf | How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 346a0d7 | I smile up at him. "It's beautiful. But what comes next?" "The best part." And he pulls me back into his arms. "The happily ever after." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 0cc59d5 | I have a rule." "Elaborate." The statue is still warm from the previous visitors. "I ask myself, if the worst happened--if I did get knocked up-would I be embarrassed to tell my child who his father was? If the answer is anywhere even remotely close to yes, then there's no way." He nods slowly. "That's a good rule." | virginity | Stephanie Perkins | |
| ff6971d | Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day. | decay destruction ruin | William Shakespeare | |
| 2a892c3 | But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| e620d1d | Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8241bb8 | We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world. | James Redfield | ||
| 67c4eb0 | It's for upset stomachs,' Dylan said, trying to hide a smile. He pointed to the words in the box. 'It's to reduce gas in your digestive system, not to create more gas to make explosions.' Gazzy's face fell as Iggy said. 'Really? Gazzy take it! Take the whole box!' 'I second that emotion!' said Total. | James Patterson | ||
| 9eb689d | Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy | James Patterson | ||
| 5d43c27 | The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. | James W. Loewen | ||
| d5d8ce5 | I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something. | William Goldman | ||
| b5f038c | All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is ; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: | stories | Jess Walter | |
| 1361ed7 | I wanted you to see something about her--I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest perso.. | bravery | Harper Lee | |
| 39dd405 | But you can't be a scientist if you're uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journalists portray us. So many articles begin, "Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board." It's as though we're sitting in our offices, feet up on our desks--masters of the universe--and suddenly say, "Oops, somebody discovered something!.. | drawing-conclusions ignorance science scientists | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 0b104c1 | sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sexual conquest, committing suicide. The marathon is a form of demonstrative suicide, suicide as advertising: it is running to show you are capable of getting every last drop of energy out of yourself, to prove it... to prove what? That you are capable of finishing. Graffiti carry the same message.. | jean-baudrillard sociology | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 97980d6 | We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick person into solitary confinement makes him worse. They have known for thousands of years that a poor man who is frightened of his landlord and of the police is a slave. They have known it. We know it. But do the great enlightened mass of the Briti.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| f1da8aa | Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep. | imagination night sleep | David Almond | |
| d6c8123 | Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws clasped together in front of his heart, and he felt suddenly as if his own heart would break in two. His father looked so small, so sad. "Forgive me," said Lester again. Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. Isn't it ridiculous, after all, to think .. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 167c010 | I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there! I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon? No. My first monsters would be spiders, then. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 8c4cacb | I wonder where we go when we die? | Bill Watterson | ||
| c78be84 | This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator. | inspirational love philosophical philosophy the-bone-clocks | David Mitchell | |
| 5b99d6e | It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him." | tally zane | Scott Westerfeld | |
| b6e0239 | Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, | Michael Jackson | ||
| 18b5e91 | In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| ec464cc | No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much... | Philip Pullman | ||
| 345cc6c | Aunt B walked out onto the helipad wearing loose yoga pants. "I'm just here to stretch. Kate, want to help?" "Sure." Thirty seconds later, as I was flying through the air, I decided that this wasn't the best idea." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 970010e | If you're really hard up, I can introduce you to my grandmother. She's a fan." Adam blinked. "She doesn't typically sleep with pretty young things, but she would make an exception in your case. You might even learn a trick or two." -- | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 515fd27 | DOES EVERYBODY THINK I am an asshole?" Curran asked. "Only people who know you or have met you." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ce89439 | Does Curran not involve you in his strategic sessions?" Ghastek asked. "Nope, I'm just here to look pretty." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 19a01bc | Isn't that why you have that gun mounted on the front? Or is it for other reasons, because I would've thought that a man with your powers would be past the urge to compensate." Barabas grinned. "I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus," Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige." | kate-daniels saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| 1327f9d | How about you don't kill anybody for a little bit?" "I can't make that promise." Small talk with the dragon. How are you? Eaten any adventurers lately? Sure, just had one this morning. Look, I still got his femur stuck in my teeth. Is that upsetting to you?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e5bc4f1 | Earth," he began, ignoring the impulse to open his notes folder and count the words. He knew this lecture by heart. "Our home. She feeds us, she shelters us. Her gravity prevents us from flying off into space and freezing, before thawing out again and being crisped by the sun, none of which really matters, as we would have long since asphyxiated." Artemis paused for laughter and was surprised when it did not arrive. "That was a little joke... | facepalm-humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 3ac117e | To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 44190b6 | He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7e0397c | Could penetrate this palace, Prince Kheldar?" King Anheg challenged. "I already have, your Majesty," Silk said modestly, "a dozen times or more." Anheg looked at Rhodar with one raised eyebrow. Rhodar coughed slightly. "It was some time ago, Anheg. Nothing serious. I was just curious about something, that's all." "All you had to do was ask," Anheg said in a slightly injured tone. "I didn't want to bother you," Rhodar said with a shrug. "B.. | David Eddings | ||
| 4144956 | The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths. | Marion Zimmer Bradley |