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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ee30340 | Look...Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And the Scenes Gone By and the Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focu.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 3fb067a | As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 52e3618 | Pero si algo habian aprendido juntos era que la sabiduria nos llega cuando ya no sirve para nada. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| df9992b | There had never been a death so foretold. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 45b3584 | I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 0bcdf37 | All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality - and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2378bcd | You are only free when you realize you belong no place--you belong every place--no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great. | Brené Brown | ||
| cc209a3 | As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8a678b4 | You gotta wonder about someone who would be dumb enough to fallo a person as crazy as him! | Tite Kubo | ||
| 0510e83 | If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot. | raoul-of-goldenlake squire tamora-pierce | Tamora Pierce | |
| f9c4ab1 | I'm a master of speaking silently--all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7cf3c2d | They won't let me ... I can't be ... good! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f412b4a | the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person. | ridiculous | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e506608 | Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a4f2579 | I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat. | gomez nellie | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| f296f2e | An appreciation for irony. | virtues | Christopher Hitchens | |
| be4252d | Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe." | durbyfield hope life tess-of-the-d-urbervilles thomas-hardy | Thomas Hardy | |
| 68c180a | The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1ef550d | No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. | individual poetry tradition | T.S. Eliot | |
| 3ead55f | He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| a2212a1 | I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 0881f8a | Genius lasts longer than beauty | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b80ecf0 | Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 25b104d | The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 069c7c3 | Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage. | Leon Uris | ||
| 1daf4b2 | Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried. | success | Og Mandino | |
| 60d2f7d | Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1ffcd28 | Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends... unless they're sexy. And sometimes we do want to have sex with our blackhearted, soul-sucking enemies... assuming they're sexy. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| a66349c | I want that," he said fiercely. "What?" "For you to be around." Her breath caught. A tenuous hope took fire in her chest. "Really?" He closed his glowing eyes and shook his head. "Yeah. It's fucking stupid. It's crazy. It's dangerous." "So it'll fit right into your life script." He laughed and looked down at her. "Yeah, pretty much." | J.R. Ward | ||
| ebc0945 | You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my favorite cousins, actually. His nonconformity is admirable and he's survived things that would crush a lesser male. Don't know that being in love with him would be easy, however." Blay didn't go near that one. "So do you come here often?" Saxton laughed, his pale eyes glinting, "Not for discussion, huh." -- | blaylock jr-ward lover-mine saxton | J.R. Ward | |
| 7805f8c | They never held hands. Never kissed in front of anyone. And there were no covert hot glances, either. But then again, Blay was a gentleman. And Saxton the Classy Slut put on a good show. His cousin was a straight-up whore-- | qhuinn saxton | J.R. Ward | |
| 0c24a73 | Thank you for caring for my brother." He took his sunglasses off. And looked at her with total adoration." | black-dagger-brotherhood wrath | J.R. Ward | |
| 9f9698a | If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact that I'm your equal." "I am the King, you realize." "And I'm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker." | black-dagger-brotherhood payne wrath | J.R. Ward | |
| cb3229b | Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture. | J.R. Ward | ||
| bf0c9fa | Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 1468321 | Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand. | memory time | Marcel Proust | |
| bf8b6c2 | Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with.. | life | John Green | |
| 757f78d | We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible because we are. | looking-for-alaska | John Green | |
| a6c09c5 | People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know? | John Green | ||
| f998112 | But then in middle school science, Mr. Martinez asked who among us had ever fantasized about living in the clouds, and everyone raised their hand. Then Mr. Martinez told us that up in the clouds the wind blew one hundred and fifty miles an hour and the temperature was thirty below zero and there was no oxygen and we'd all die within seconds." "Sounds like a nice guy." "He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.let me tell you. You.. | John Green | ||
| 78aad99 | I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, ye.. | John Green | ||
| 0f24a47 | The pathetic thing I wanted to say to him on the phone - but didn't - was this: When you're a little kid, you have something. Maybe it's a blanket or a stuffed animal or whatever. For me, it was this stuffed prairie dog that I got one Christmas when I was like three. I don't even know where they found a stuffed prairie dog, but whatever, it sat up on its hind legs and I called him Marvin, and I dragged Marvin around by his prairie dog ears .. | John Green | ||
| 84cb85e | Still perfect," he said. "Read to me." "This isn't really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your sleeping mother. It has, like, sodomy and angel dust in it," I said. "You just named two of my favorite pastimes," he said. "Okay, read me something else then?" "Um," I said. "I don't have anything else?" "That's too bad. I am so in the mood for poetry. Do you have anything memorized?" "'Let us go then, you and I,'" I started ner.. | John Green | ||
| cf8e019 | Its hard to stay up. Its been a long long day And you've got the sandman at your door. But hang on, leave the TV on and lets do it anyway. Its ok. You can always sleep through work tomorrow. Ok? Hey, Hey, Tomorrow's just your future yesterday. Tell the clock on the wall, "Forget the wake up call." Cause the night's not nearly through. Wipe the sleep from your eyes. Give yourself a surprise. Let your worries wait another day. And if you st.. | sleep theme tv work | Craig Ferguson |