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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4bfc3bf | I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz | Mitch Albom | ||
| f748792 | the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect. | Mitch Albom | ||
| abda593 | the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ac756ea | I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact. | insanity nut-house sane | William S. Burroughs | |
| 51f08dc | It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| c3bd63d | The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action. | Luanne Rice | ||
| 025d4b5 | Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a2bcbf5 | Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e55828c | There's no greater misfortune than dying alone. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 813c17e | None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them. | evil | Azar Nafisi | |
| 456f882 | Drinking's funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we'd be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 4db940b | The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something. | Alice Walker | ||
| c5e5968 | I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 2d4f062 | When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy of poppies. But when it came right down to it, the sink of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wa.. | suicide | Sylvia Plath | |
| 937deb1 | How many different deaths I can die? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 08b9e25 | We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction | poverty stupidity | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 519a9a5 | An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream." | A.S. Byatt | ||
| d2e4b8d | An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 67eaa0d | Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. | europe experience inequality | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 471a1be | Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 3fb3044 | If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! | sleep | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 065a747 | Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?' 'Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you? | charlie-ridgemont high-school humor paranormal-romance | Francesca Zappia | |
| daf6c6b | I grinned at Daemon and held up a bulb that was so green it almost matched his eyes. I decided it was going to be bulb. | jennifer-l-armentrout katy-and-daemon katy-swartz lux onyx | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 4e91948 | Your momma wanted to save you--save you from your fate. If she hadn't, you'd be nothing but a memory and a fear long forgotten. Just like all you who mix the breeds. What they want you two for, what they have planned." She shook her head again and when she looking at me, sorrow etched across her face. "They fear you, fear what comes from you. I told you child. I told you that your path was filled with dark things tat must be done." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cb93cec | It's the same thing when I'm gardening or reading. It's just me and what I'm doing, or the world I'm reading, and nothing else. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1c86c95 | Finish that sentence and I will stab you in the eye with the spork Bethany's about to pull out of her bag for her apple sauce." He smiled gamely. "And she'd be very upset if I got her spork all messed up. She's rather fond of the thing." ... "A spork," Dee said, grabbing her bag. "What is a spork?" Bethany's mouth dropped open. "You've never seen one?" "Dee doesn't get out much," Dawson replied, grinning. "Shut up." Dee pulled out the fork .. | sporks | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| fdb8321 | You...you are so beautiful." I stood slowly, my eyes following the slight flush down her neck. I grinned. "You're really beautiful when you blush." She ducked her head, but I caught her chin, forcing her eyes back to mine. "Seriously," I told her. "Absolutely beautiful." The tender, almost shy smile appeared again. "Flattery will totally get you everywhere right now." I chuckled. "Good to know, because I'm planning on going everywhere--and .. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6ed9e86 | So a skunk humped my leg earlier. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b5491d2 | Nothing fun in life is easy. | life-lessons | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 216928f | There was something romantic about all of it, in the way he cradled my cheek when his mouth returned to mine and whispered my name like I was some kind of mystery he'd never be able to figure out. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b25f69d | Maddox hissed. "You think you're cute?" "Nah, I think I'm sexy." The smirk spread, but it didn't reach his cool ocher eyes. "And I also think I'm hilarious." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 15c4957 | When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no. | Max Brooks | ||
| b5b3cc1 | Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 123993b | Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care. | grubbs-grady lord-loss | Darren Shan | |
| 4ef10eb | Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them. | ichthyocentaur leo lobster-claws mark-of-athena valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| c497f69 | Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus." "That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not." "He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin." Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time." | eros favonius heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 362c217 | Nico jumped into the crowd, kicking groins, smacking faces with the flat of his blade, bashing helmets with his pommel. In ten seconds, the Romans all lay groaning and dazed on the ground. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2d12b19 | The only thing they had in common was Calypso, and every time Leo thought about that he wanted to punch Percy in the face. | please | Rick Riordan | |
| d076d60 | He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families. | Rick Riordan | ||
| c79ab52 | I picked up Pandora's jar. The spirit of Hope fluttered inside, trying to warm the cold container. "Hestia," I said, "I give this to you as an offering." The goddess tilted her head. "I am the least of the gods. Why would you trust me with this?" "You're the last Olympian," I said. "And the most important." "And why is that, Percy Jackson?" "Because Hope survives best at the hearth," I said. "Guard it for me, and I won't be tempted to give .. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 404174f | Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8841cd2 | I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 441e8af | Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants. "So, really, I saved the day," he decided. "Wait a minute," Amy said, " climbed onto the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm." "Yeah, but the clue was in pants." | cahill dan humor the39clues | Rick Riordan | |
| 82cd104 | his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night. Percy Jackson | Rick Riordan |