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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8e17de3 | Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| e50f2b6 | Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much." | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| b91cf5e | They held each other and kissed and pushed each others' darkness into the corner, believing in each others' light, each others' dream. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 1e9edda | Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked | atheism inspirational | Erica Jong | |
| e7f2de9 | I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive. | inspirational | Nicki Minaj | |
| c1db83e | There is no instinct like that of the heart. | inspirational | George Gordon Byron | |
| 797ad27 | They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ae03fb4 | One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5e2c18a | There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0d72bc5 | The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 059a179 | one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive. | childhood-memory happiness loss love memory mother time-traveling | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| de5a724 | Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors? | Donna Tartt | ||
| 53fee52 | Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. | computers hacker-folklore humour idiots it | Charles Stross | |
| 73e2416 | Valkyrie, I will get answers from you one way or another. Either through this painful exercise in futility, as you believe, or through a civilized conversation." "You call this civilized?" She strained against her cuffs, leaning in to whisper, "Psst, Chase. The sexual tension between us is grueling." | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 181a21c | Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to." | confusion deceit love manipulation | Kresley Cole | |
| 6152515 | Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. | arts feelings music neuroscience | Oliver Sacks | |
| 7ca637a | There is a room in England somewhere, but it's nowhere to be seen. It exists only in the mind, and only in the mind of those that have been there. | Jeff Noon | ||
| 061fd0b | Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood. | Betty Smith | ||
| 083c7b0 | The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 04e8bcc | some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 4da4adf | For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 1614827 | I would eat my way into perdition to taste you. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 32a3670 | A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 913f8f5 | The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| a1f56c8 | Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| afeafb6 | With that, I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.) Marshaling what little dignity I yet possessed, I stomped down the corridor - challenging indeed with one shoe - and around the corner. I lay awake for hours. The prince had no right, not one, to indict me so, and if I had held the slightest hope of the book's assistance, I would have climbed at once to my wizard room for a spell with which to puni.. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 5c7e9b7 | Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves. | Barry Lopez | ||
| 1e7a5f6 | The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough. | fantasy | Barbara Hambly | |
| 8018980 | Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something. | love people skills | John Green | |
| 36b5e99 | 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 | ||
| 06c0b29 | It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?" | life-after-death resurrection seeds spring | L.M. Montgomery | |
| cc42561 | Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| a6ce768 | The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. | craft creative-process painting wholeness writing | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 18eefc0 | She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love. | E.M. Forster | ||
| dd2b853 | The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions. | Yann Martel | ||
| 0599553 | I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story." | Yann Martel | ||
| 764be94 | But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2d68f3d | I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute? | malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| c14b6f9 | Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 669db09 | There are all kinds of courage," said Dumbledore, smiling. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6777546 | Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy -- Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater! | humor ron | J.K. Rowling | |
| f1e1ee7 | As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling. | nymphadora-tonks remus-lupin | J.K. Rowling | |
| aff4c92 | He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the Mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could... | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c9c5732 | What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?" "Oh no, Ron," came Fred's voice, very sarcastically. "No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up." | J.K. Rowling |