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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bb40ca4 | To be alive at all is to have scars. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 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 | ||
| fe24670 | But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. | lying truth willful-ignorance | Ray Bradbury | |
| 61013d3 | So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?" "Love is a contradiction," said Jace." | jace-lightwood simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| bcc27a3 | The best lies were always mixed with truth. | truth | Sarah J. Maas | |
| a2a62ef | He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 42bb7df | And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 27ee277 | I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. | David Sedaris | ||
| 8339e96 | Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? | path questioning | Garth Nix | |
| e14bceb | Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time" -- | jordan-kyle masculinity | Cassandra Clare | |
| ae54811 | Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. | hazel-grace john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 60f6f61 | The truth has a way of changing people's plans. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 09167ab | Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 89d734f | Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time" | jordan-kyle masculinity | Cassandra Clare | |
| bcc369b | It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 6fd4cfd | I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to unders.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| a7caafc | What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes." Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library." | packing | J.K. Rowling | |
| 594e9e4 | Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the bes.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| acc0062 | History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. | truth | James Joyce | |
| 04db088 | Why am I covered in feathers | breaking-dawn twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| eeb4e27 | I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and .. | James Kavanaugh | ||
| d39b6c7 | Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had .. | love personal-growth romance | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a622a11 | I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own." | insult jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5ee5ffc | I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned | inspirational pain philosophy | Harlan Ellison | |
| 24532c9 | One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 2ae16ef | Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you. | humanity self-worth social-mores | Maya Angelou | |
| c755d55 | The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future. | past | Barbara Taylor Bradford | |
| e3b7a4e | The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. | writing | Margaret Atwood | |
| b9ac829 | Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 9d4a2cd | You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. | inspirational love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1d0fc8d | You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?' 'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.' He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks. | four tobias tris veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| cb8f518 | By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b4cc8a2 | Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. | con devil lie sexy wit | Holly Black | |
| 38ef6e2 | The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. | human-nature weekend | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 882925e | In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. | morality pip | Charles Dickens | |
| c99ab9a | He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. | gandalf reductionism wisdom | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b3ee0c6 | this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths. | David Levithan | ||
| f0cb3b6 | That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3f393d9 | I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult. | pain philosophy | Harlan Ellison | |
| 3f57e51 | All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| de29e12 | As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. | humor time wisdom | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 50a4267 | Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We'll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| dc35a4f | I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| a52e0e4 | I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful. | Stephenie Meyer |