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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c55199 | I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, 'You know - you never wrote a sto.. | diversity education | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| d5c6656 | I couldn't make myself happy, but I could make people around me miserable. | John Green | ||
| 4a9a58d | Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper | John Green | ||
| 7af73f7 | John rose to his feet and apologized to Holiday. Her mom seethed. Her dad tried to talk to her seething mom. Holiday tried to touch everyone. Burnett continued to glare green daggers at John, proving how hard it was for a vampire to accept an apology. Not that she blamed him. Kill him. Kill him. She cheered the vampire on. Lucas hadn't stopped scowling at Derek and Derek hadn't stopped ignoring Lucas. | C.C. Hunter | ||
| 93dcac9 | That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt." | John Green | ||
| 26ba7b1 | You can't just make me different and then leave | death driving drunk dying loss lost love | John Green | |
| ee7b6cd | It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 258fa2a | Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 4b8736a | Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finali.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| f39555e | A slap wouldn't have pulled me out of the trance any faster. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 6b5ea90 | Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| f9fb030 | These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous American poet: 'You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!' 'Thanks for the advice, you pathetic piece of E.E. Cummings, but I think I'm gonna pass.' 'You Robert Frost-ing Nikki Giovanni! Get a life, nerd. You're a virgin.' | humor nerdfighters poet poetry | John Green | |
| 9c6b551 | It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ee2c3a9 | Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring. | on-fiction sookie-stackhouse truth | Charlaine Harris | |
| dc6c4b5 | Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| cebc1f1 | You are everything that's ever been my favourite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You're my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean waves and French words and a baby's laugh. You're a snow angel, creme brulee, a kaleidoscope filled with glitter. I love you and you'll never catch up, because I've gotten a head start and my heart is racing at light speed." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 7412390 | McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if they still have it. How many times I've felt that McKenna was still here, and the empty space beside me was alive with his presence." She closed her eyes and leaned forward until her forehead and the tip of her nose touched the cool glass. "I love him beyond reason," she whispered. "He's a stranger to me now, and yet he.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| fc4a785 | Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 09dd3e9 | It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. | happiness victory | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 0c0744d | There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence. | Alan Moore | ||
| e604c3c | Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning. | Julian Barnes | ||
| f38eb27 | Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 591c2fd | We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0c1ae5b | I will remember, Your Grace," said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I'll make them love me." | asoiaf cersei cersei-lannister fear love sansa sansa-stark | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5e63795 | A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 514ff51 | We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 79e3525 | You just said you were sorry." ... "I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-" | Meg Cabot | ||
| d8b2c7c | Whatever. Boris, must you constantly breathe on me? | Meg Cabot | ||
| 63b2573 | Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| b0faa21 | Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 54442ca | who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| caecf74 | Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto. | Stephen King | ||
| c123f00 | I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself. | rumors truth | Stephen King | |
| 0647d68 | At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers.. | dark-tower death fire roland stephen-king susan susan-delgado wizard-and-glass | Stephen King | |
| f9d754e | Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret. | Stephen King | ||
| 128260c | Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark. | Stephen King | ||
| 417fef9 | It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." "Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant." -- | fact mystery theory | Agatha Christie | |
| 806259a | There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact. | Andrea Levy | ||
| 15d4bde | She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening--the fall. He could almost have exclaimed--'There it goes, again! | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 6e2350f | God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. | Rob Bell | ||
| 70b9dce | A lie twice believed is self decieved | neat truth | Brandon Mull | |
| 4bf4ab8 | Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language. | oromis thinking | Christopher Paolini | |
| eda9968 | Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| dfa71a2 | What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns." | fawns roarke | J.D. Robb |