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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 74459f8 | She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night. | dance-with-dragons death dragons dreams epic-fantasy fantasy high-fantasy lions melisandre other series song-of-ice-and-fire wolves | George R.R. Martin | |
| f2559b3 | My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you. | prejudice wisdom | Elise Broach | |
| 2bc1fec | Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 317d5cd | Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 6e484e4 | Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all. | Harlan Coben | ||
| a3e518b | I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. | Stephen King | ||
| e424f68 | You just couldn't get hold of the things you had done and turn them right again. Such power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to men and women, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. | Stephen King | ||
| 1866577 | When you want to feel better, call something a piece of shit. It usually works. | Stephen King | ||
| c45d7e5 | Mouse sandwiches and open graves?" Meredith arched an elegant eyebrow. "I think you're getting Stephen King mixed up with Lewis Carroll." | L.J. Smith | ||
| c59be21 | A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy. | Agatha Christie | ||
| a17ff15 | Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else." "Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality." | love reality | Agatha Christie | |
| da769b8 | Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world. | literature symbolism | Nadeem Aslam | |
| 9b0c01a | Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad... | Jean Rhys | ||
| 18b757b | Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. | writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| b423fc4 | We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool. | educational fool foolish foolishness jack-goldenberg | Bob Marley | |
| e9d9a9a | A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 9380035 | If somebody doesn't call me a bitch once a day, I figure I'm not doing my job. | J.D. Robb | ||
| cb61eb1 | Damn it all to hell and back again, you know very well that was a setup. You bloody well know I couldn't put my hands on her." "Yeah, yeah, sure, sure." Eve shrugged off her coat, tossed it aside. "I know a setup when I see it, and I know your face, ace. I didn't see desire on it, I saw annoyance." "Is that so? Is that bloody well so? Well, if you knew it was just what it was, why did you sucker punch me?" "Mostly?" She turned, cocked a hip.. | eve-dallas roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 281ac99 | Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl. "Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin." | funny lief | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 830d41a | Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked "Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first name basis with the Commander now?" "I usually call him Amby, but not in mixed company." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 23c38b7 | I'm glad you're here. We've had some...interesting developments." Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1c6b3a0 | I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| d43c4e4 | We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 38bd270 | Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3c98bb6 | Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart. | responsibility right-and-wrong | Jim Butcher | |
| a063230 | The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke. | hopeless life love regret sad | Holly Black | |
| 9da7da9 | The Folk doubtlessly learned this lesson long ago. They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves. | humans lesson | Holly Black | |
| 46b66f9 | Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 7b27e09 | You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and .. | Philip Roth | ||
| 36ae33d | When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us. | inspirational | Eugene Peterson | |
| 5149e1f | Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow. | inspirational les-brown motivational | Les Brown | |
| 92fed01 | What others think about you is none of your business. | inspirational motivational self-help | Jack Canfield | |
| 91e0707 | Don't quit, and don't give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or times of joy, listen for that still, small voice. Know that God has been there from the beginning--and he will be there until . . . The End. | christian-life inspirational | Joanna Gaines | |
| cec2b1c | Everything is within your power | change change-life change-quotes change-the-world change-your-life change-your-mind empowered empowerment encourae-yourself encourage-yourself encouragement encouragement-and-attitude encouragement-quotes encouraging encouraging-quotes innate-wisdom inner-strength inspirational inspiring inspiring-quote inspiring-quotes law-of-attraction motivating motivational motivational-quotes personal-development positive positive-quote positive-thinking positivity power power-of-the-subconscious-mind power-of-thoughts power-of-will power-of-women powerful powerful-quotes powerful-women powerful-words self-empowered self-empowerment self-healing self-help self-help-inspiration self-help-motivator self-help-quote self-help-quotes self-improvement spiritual spiritual-quote spiritual-wisdom strength strength-of-mind strength-of-spirit strong strong-will strong-willed strong-woman strong-women subconscious uplifting | Janice Trachtman | |
| 8681656 | A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while. | care caring darkness inspirational life love lyrics music smile song songs | Ransom Riggs | |
| 1441df7 | The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 06f0d7b | If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. | humor | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | |
| 6750842 | People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b5f2744 | Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 68c1bef | Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0df35d8 | You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path. | julier-marillier quote quotes | Juliet Marillier | |
| 4cbb15f | Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. | life love trust | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 5d54984 | Human orgasm, firecracker. Vampire orgasm, blast. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 94b957d | Just because you're a gutless harlot doesn't mean I won't find your... attributes attractive. I might be immortal, but I'm still a red-blooded male." "Harlot? Who talks like that? Father Time, meet the Flinstones." | Kresley Cole |