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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b31d663 | The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. | Robert Greene | ||
| ab1ab67 | We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us. | death ghosts liam-callanan the-cloud-atlas | Liam Callanan | |
| 998806d | You can touch everything and be connected to nothing. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 33f07b3 | A little more than kin, a little less than kind. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 2aef6cd | We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 880ff2b | Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 903cbcb | I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life. | joseph-heller yossarian | Joseph Heller | |
| b5e5834 | Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 7a26c66 | Summer has never been the same since the 2000 Presidential Election, when we still seemed to be a prosperous nation at peace with the world, more or less. Two summers later we were a dead-broke nation at war with all but three or four countries in the world, and three of those don't count. Spain and Italy were flummoxed and and England has allowed itself to be taken over by and stigmatized by some corrupt little shyster who enjoys his slimy.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| ccbd63a | we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if i.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 4f73f83 | It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 8f2014d | Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me. | Francine Rivers | ||
| be82c57 | Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living i.. | inspirational love religion | Alice Walker | |
| cc4e76e | And I, love, am a pathological liar. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 48abed4 | A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. | family relationships | Keri Hulme | |
| 9902756 | Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain. | humor villian | Sherwood Smith | |
| f7c4762 | She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago." -- | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 673197f | I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me. | misanthropy | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 8478090 | I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, and I asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered:"why be scared of a hat?" My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 1a4fcd1 | I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny. Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up wit.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| f96a8a0 | I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 8e3d059 | Oh, for the love of baby humans everywhere, you're an idiot. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 28b864d | Well hello, honey, I've been out boozing and whoring. I know, my priorities are pretty off. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 87f09f3 | Just so you know, I get incredibly bored quite easily and you will be forced to be my source of entertainment. You'll kind of be like my own personal jester." I flipped him off. "Well that wasn't funny at all." | deacon funny sarcasm | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 31b5d22 | You do realize I love a challenge? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2a8748e | Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope." | heroes-of-olympus hope iris percy-jackson-and-the-olympians rainbows the-son-of-neptune | Rick Riordan | |
| 23d381a | Pluto's pauldrons," Reyna cursed." | heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians pluto reyna the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| 1703f78 | It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not... | Rick Riordan | ||
| 07b94d0 | In the Duat, Anubis looked as he always had, with his tousled dark hair and lovely brown eyes, but I'd never seen him filled with such rage. I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn't going to hold him back. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7b69d98 | He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows. | Rick Riordan | ||
| f050e1b | Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn." "Yeah, it's a gift." | Rick Riordan | ||
| d2229dd | Percy let me go, she croaked. You can't pull me up. Never | percabeth sad-love | Rick Riordan | |
| 14d69a7 | Pain is an interesting thing. You think you have reached your limit and you can't possibly feel more tortured. Then you discover there is still another level of agony. And another level after that. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 824e2cc | There was nothing to tempt me from the choice of desserts, so I opted instead for a coffee, which was bitter and lukewarm. Naturally, I had been about to pour it all over myself but, just in time, had read the warning printed on the paper cup, alerting me to the fact that hot liquids can cause injury. A lucky escape, Eleanor! I said to myself, laughing quietly. I began to suspect that Mr. McDonald was a very foolish man indeed, although, ju.. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 468ee08 | Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth! | Henry Miller | ||
| 5f68de6 | No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 67677e0 | Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to face him, I don't make a sound. I don't need to. We're still talking. Every touch he makes, every imprint of his skin is like another word, another thought, a continuation of our conversation. And we're not done yet. Not yet. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| f41163b | The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long as I don't move. As long as I lie still. The difference between and . Lay is always passive. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8038dd4 | I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disgusted...You wanted to make damn good and sure I'd never be able to turn over in bed again without feeling that body beside me, not there but tangible, like a leg that's been cut off. Gone but the place still hurts. | phantom-limb sleep | Margaret Atwood | |
| 0f4ac0f | What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| f52cad0 | Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,' Arkadian Porpirych says. 'What statistic allows one to identify the nations where literature enjoys true consideration better than the sums appropriated for controlling it and suppressing it? Where it is the object of such attentions, literature gains an extraordinary authority, inconceivable in countries where it is allowed to vegetate as an innocuous pastim.. | literature | Italo Calvino | |
| 87314ca | Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 7a4339a | If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent. | world | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 2ea3bf7 | If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it. | Jonathan Safran Foer |