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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a201b9 | I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 0b0b169 | At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 3cbd072 | I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a51a84d | Charlie, don't you get it? I can't feel that. It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 0cb0dfc | The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. And she's always on a diet. Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d9c7fa3 | Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 7053131 | If i can't do what i want to do then my job is to not do what i don't want to do It's not the same thing but it's the best i can do If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want Since i can't go where i need to go . . . then i must . . . go where the signs point through always understanding parallel movement isn't lateral When i can't express what i real.. | Nikki Giovanni | ||
| a93206f | There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. | sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| 8dc1aa4 | I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons. | eric-northman sookie-stackhouse true-blood | Charlaine Harris | |
| 062deba | Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap--I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you--because you know how to perform them--have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice--and so would you. You could feel free not to do it becaus.. | freedom-of-choice law women | John Irving | |
| eb0a270 | You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 6d90c5c | I have a whole guard room full of brawny veterans who'd enjoy a chance to drag two Eddisians out of here, particularly if you kicked a lot and they could kick you back. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| c77b739 | Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 39382b4 | Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| c41a0ae | Love is blind," Harriet quipped. "But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 160f7f5 | What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)" | history imperialism memory politics triumphalism victors | Julian Barnes | |
| 8cf31b2 | I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford." Me and Shrek, we're onions." | Nora Roberts | ||
| c47ee1f | For the night is dark and full of terrors. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| eab2972 | Jaime had decided that he return Sansa, and the younger girl as well if she could be found. It was not like to win him back his honor, but the notion of keeping faith when they all expected betrayal amused him more than he could say. | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 103af1a | You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes. | etiquette humor | Astrid Lindgren | |
| 1eec63c | Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 123e274 | It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else. | in-love life love moment pretend | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 20fd24c | Remember all fairy tales end at some point. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 12eccab | The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. | expect illusion sarah-gruen water-for-elephants | sara gruen | |
| cf5aebf | Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again. | Stephen King | ||
| 13ca7d5 | Silence is kind of awkward, don't you think?" he said. Oh. Or not. "No. I'm okay with silence. We're in a library after all. This is the birthplace of silence." "The library is the birthplace of silence?" David asked. "All the words are being used by the books. When I was little, that's what I used to think. That people were told to be quiet so that all their words didn't get stolen by the books. I thought books needed words to exist. Well,.. | Kasie West | ||
| 877bde4 | It's what's in that makes you happy or unhappy. | inspirational miss-marple | Agatha Christie | |
| 69fff8c | Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want. | heaven hell spirituality | Rob Bell | |
| e9f0bef | Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 488b1bb | A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 1cfc399 | It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if...but he's always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he's going to be there." | J.D. Robb | ||
| db3a77b | He Sipped his coffee, watched the flames. "You gave me my life, you did," He insisted when Summerset made a protesting sound. "And I worked-in my fashion- to build this place. I asked you to tend it for me. You've never let me down. But I needed her. The one thing, the only thing that could make this place home." "She's not what I would have chosen for you" "Oh, that I know" "But she's right for you. The one for you." Despite, or maybe due .. | J.D Robb | ||
| 1082af8 | At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 7048784 | I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| c1a5b2c | At first, it feels as if she has vanished forever, and all traces are destroyed. But later, when the pain of loss doesn't overwhelm all your other feelings, every time you think of her, or hear her voice in your head, or remember a happy time together, you realize she's still a part of you and will never be totally gone. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 9268a64 | Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. | Susan Cain | ||
| 845e941 | It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men... and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious chimeras of divine rights in princes and nobles, are nearly unanimous in preserving remnants of it... Is the jealousy of power, and the envy of superiority, so strong in all men, that no considerations of public or private utility .. | artifice constitution discovery divine-right divinity expectation government happiness holy-water influence invention jefferson laws mankind paine philosophy politics reason rights science secular secular-government superstition thomas-jefferson thomas-paine | John Adams | |
| 11a7a2c | He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness... Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words - wait and hope. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 5a271ca | In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood-- A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall. That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or wind.. | Theodore Roethke | ||
| 2f552ef | I survive at the edge of friends circles. | dark deceit friends lie motives sad | Holly Black | |
| bce7207 | So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them. | Holly Black | ||
| 0cce164 | The point of a fight is not to have a good fight, it's to win. | win | Holly Black | |
| dee9892 | What they don't realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. | Holly Black | ||
| 69941a6 | Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |