Site uses cookies to provide basic functionality.

OK
Query
Tags
Author
Link Quote Stars Tags Author
f896d6f I don't know why I feel so tremendously ashamed of myself for leaving them. Why it feels so selfish and horrible to paint. I shouldn't--shouldn't feel that way, should I? I know I shouldn't, but I can't help it." The rose hung limply from my fingers. "All those years, what I did for them . . . And they didn't try to stop you from taking me." tamlin Sarah J. Maas
d3036f5 You look absolutely delicious today, Feyre?! Sarah J. Maas
1cb5163 We're all risking something." There was so little of the friend he'd grown up with. The prince glanced at his pocket watch. "I need to go." Dorian stalked to the stairs, and there was no fear in his face, no doubt, as he said, "You gave me the truth today, so I'll share mine: even if it meant us being friends again, I don't think I would want to go back to how it was before -- who I was before. And this..." He jerked his chin toward the sca.. Sarah J. Maas
4adbd13 Rowan looked into her eyes, into the very core of her, and said, "Fireheart." Sarah J. Maas
d74acf9 If only these walls could talk...the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar. writing Gregg Olsen
87df504 If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first. Miranda July
e08ffdd As for will, woman should be considered to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him. Donna Woolfolk Cross
f15994d What shall I give? and which are my miracles? 2. Realism is mine--my miracles--Take freely, Take without end--I offer them to you wherever your feet can carry you or your eyes reach. 3. Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water, Or sta.. Walt Whitman
bf37606 Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity. Trudi Canavan
e9a4007 Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall. Jack Kerouac
d3159b9 He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad. Jack Kerouac
8c21c6b I felt free and therefore I was free. Jack Kerouac
ae0573f But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do Jack Kerouac
99d49c9 I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all Jack Kerouac
a5cda53 blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. inspiration privacy José Saramago
8c69d2c You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. Edward Rutherfurd
de13c74 Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live. Christopher Moore
4d5ef7b I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something. political-correctness Christopher Moore
a4fefd6 Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty. Isaac Asimov
68e25e8 But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world? Jules Verne
6285948 Next to 'God', 'love' is the word most mangled in every language. Richard Bach
2e46d64 If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school. The teardrop of a crying ant would be your swimming pool. A crumb of cake would be a feast And last you seven days at least, A flea would be a frightening beast If you were one inch tall. If you were only one inch tall, you'd walk beneath the door, And it would take about a month to get down to the store. A bit of fluff would be your bed, You'd swing upon a spider's thread, And we.. Shel Silverstein
085f1ba I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead." -- marcus Michelle Sagara West
f0cff82 You are pathetic, Rache," Jenks said, and my eyes darted to the top of the rack and I saw him standing there, hands on his hips and frowning at me, his wings a silver blur. "Rachel and Trent, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. No wait, it was a hospital room, and he had his hands on your ass and you had your tongue down his throat. I can see why you might be confused." Kim Harrison
24fb71a Now you're going to get it," I said, guessing Al was coming when the ones in the back scattered. "You should have been nice." With a weird cry, the closest surface demon fell back, but it was too late. A flash of red light exploded overhead, smashing the buildings away as if I were at the center of an atomic explosion. The surface demons scattered like brown leaves, the remnants of their clothes and auras fluttering. It was Al, and he burst.. demons ever-after Kim Harrison
4022877 That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities." Edgar Allan Poe
6a12ded The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself. war Robert M. Pirsig
a031626 Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Ayn Rand
f99b857 I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog. John Steinbeck
f6442e9 Smiling without good reason is demeaning. Ellen Raskin
9876b93 Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other. Nora Roberts
fa1e315 But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? Dan Brown
1863674 Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience love V.C. Andrews
e29e06c Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50. age Napoleon Hill
db1a244 The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting point--ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose. Rick Warren
48e39b0 Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen. There's no one alive who can say if he will be tomorrow. Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery. No one can teach it, no one can grasp it. Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink! But don't forget Aphrodite--that's You can let the rest go. Am I making sense? I think so. How about a drink. Put on a garla.. cheer comedy death happiness life mortality sadness Anne Carson
d717c90 When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet. Jung Chang
5d47b0d she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together. louisa-may-alcott sisters Louisa May Alcott
6427b57 Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. Charles Dickens
24f3a63 If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Charles Dickens
0046ca5 I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators." Neal Stephenson
840b1fc There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that. In it, Tolstoy related a Russian fable about a man who, being chased by a monster, jumps into a well. As the man is falling down the well, however, he sees there's a dragon at the bottom, waiting to eat him. Right then, the man notices a branch sticking out of the wall, and he grabs o.. Jeffrey Eugenides
d6319c5 The warrior is Here, Now. Dan Millman
0bd55db She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all. Edith Wharton