1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
802
803
804
805
806
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2c7f238 | Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9181760 | Your retaliation is unspeakable. For this alone, you must forgive me for my treatment of you." "Still high-handed?" "I risked my neck just now to say that in front of you." | iad lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| 24f269b | Come touch,...but you'll a price | Kresley Cole | ||
| 159b27d | If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 2651e27 | As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4bf203c | clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. | isolation loneliness personality solitude | Virginia Woolf | |
| 12c1473 | But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them. | nature russia | Virginia Woolf | |
| 6d491ac | Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it wi.. | friends life | Virginia Woolf | |
| d33fe5d | Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world. Mrs Winterson objected to what I had put in, but it seemed to me that what I had left out was the story's silent twin. There are so many things that we can't say, because they are too painful. We hope that the things we can s.. | narrative silence storytelling trauma truth | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 547e498 | three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience. | Ann Rule | ||
| 2dabe30 | A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love. | life-lessons live love woman womanhood | Ai Yazawa | |
| c3e88db | He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say - what good are they? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| babde3f | I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. | lia quote wintergirls | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| f650c34 | Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality. -Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt | Judith McNaught | ||
| 7698060 | While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1a7c393 | Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of .. | brides brightness happiness imagery jewels joy light metaphors phoenix radiance stars sun wedding | John Donne | |
| 8ebc2b3 | It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not. | John Green | ||
| 55aba5e | And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a movie about my life instead of living it. | John Green | ||
| bad9069 | To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant. | John Berger | ||
| 176d15d | You are your own anchor, Ryke. When you fail, you hurt yourself more than anyone else. Do you want to keep burning or are you going to let yourself rise | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 510317b | So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 1e498b8 | But then it passed, as all things do. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0e9f60c | I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind .. | fear | Yann Martel | |
| da3d1e6 | There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. "Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again. "Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ef1784b | Dudley had been accepted at Uncle Vernon's old private school, Smeltings...Harry, on the other hand, was going to Stonewall High, the local public high school. Dudley thought this was very funny. "They stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall," he told Harry. "Want to come upstairs and practice?" "No, thanks," said Harry. "The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it - it might be sick." Then .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 09793be | Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 79a8926 | the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend | Colleen McCullough | ||
| b75f7f1 | Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can means lots of different things. It can mean 'I want to do sex with you' and it can also mean 'I think what you just said was very stupid. | Haddon Mark | ||
| e9cfa1a | He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0c0b8c1 | You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. | love nicholas-sparks romance the-best-of-me | Nicholas Sparks | |
| d4a76af | Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 96f64aa | One Ranger is all you'll ever need. - Ranger | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 193d054 | Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes. | diesel humor | Janet Evanovich | |
| 2f2bbe0 | Fine. Let Ranger get someone else. Trust me, you don't want to be out looking for a parking place on Sloane in the middle of the night." "I won't have to look for a parking place. Tank's picking me up." "Your working with a guy name Tank?" "He's big." "Jesus", Morelli said. "I had to fall in love with a woman who works with a guy named Tank." "You love me?" "Of course I love you. I just don't want to marry you." | stephine | Janet Evanovich | |
| 27ce582 | I need mood music. I gotta get myself ready to kick butt." Lula - High Five" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 72a2ff6 | Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us. | Libba Bray | ||
| 5c97c1a | My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest | Libba Bray | ||
| 6c6382a | There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss. | forbidden gen kiss love save | Ann Patchett | |
| 50a813a | No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| aae679a | Help me give up my addiction to Hope. | fiction prayer | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| d170202 | Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meaning: Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. And your anger about investing a lifetime in learning shit and loving people and earning money, only to have all that crap come to basically nothing. Really, your physical body dying is the easy part. Beyond that, your memories must die. And your ego. Your pride and shame and am.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 22d17be | you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f9671e7 | All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius. | james-bond mania | Ian Fleming | |
| 74baae1 | There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger. | Nicole Krauss |