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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a94d0da | too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow. | happiness sadness | Amy Tan | |
| 9aaf4c6 | Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 845c7a3 | perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. | individualism | Salman Rushdie | |
| 148c288 | I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again. | Arthur Miller | ||
| e7b8ea0 | Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man! | storm-scene | William Shakespeare | |
| f6ad0ce | What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused. | fulfillment humankind potential | William Shakespeare | |
| 96ab741 | All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. | love poetry sonnet-43 sonnet-xliii | Shakespeare; William | |
| 0cc372e | HAMLET: I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe? GUILDENSTERN: My lord, I cannot. HAMLET: I pray you. GUILDENSTERN: Believe me, I cannot. HAMLET: I do beseech you. GUILDENSTERN: I know no touch of it, my lord. HAMLET: It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with our fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops. GUILDENSTERN: But these ca.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| a11b7fe | They stayed with my mum." "That's... weird." "Not really. Mum is cool, easy to get along with." I raise a teasing eyebrow. "So where did YOU guys stay?" "Where we always stay." He stares back solemnly. "In our separate dormitories." | etienne-st-clair lola-nolan | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 4dd73d3 | We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper. "Are you getting your ax?" "Handcuffs." "Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it." | contemporary-romance spa-and-the-happily-ever-after stephanie-perkins teen-fiction ya | Stephanie Perkins | |
| ccda70b | They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 7a20b6e | Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| b412c46 | How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live. | James Redfield | ||
| 18714d0 | Unfortunately, every time someone said "debriefing," the entire flock had one image: someone's tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled with the whole "naval this, and naval that," with its undeniable belly-button connotations, we were essentially turning into a sugar-jacked, sleep-deprived flock of incoherent, silly, recombinant-DNA goofballs. This was not going to end well... | James Patterson | ||
| 92ebe14 | People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. | belief god i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings maya-angelou poverty religion wealth | Maya Angelou | |
| 5d68e6c | He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. | love | Emily Brontë | |
| 2729c8f | But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest. | goals rest struggle | Emily Brontë | |
| 820b5e3 | You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it ... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces." -- | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 93509a4 | Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are. | William Goldman | ||
| a51dc43 | I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. | Charles Darwin | ||
| 07bc22c | The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in. | Harper Lee | ||
| db1addb | The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 3903e4d | To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 4af2668 | After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy? | boy emily-giffin love love-the-one-you-re-with | Emily Giffin | |
| 3c3cca2 | I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 3f3e12b | Art is anything you can get away with. | humor | Marshall McLuhan | |
| 9463053 | How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation." | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| d6b8859 | We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon | facing-problems | Walter Scott | |
| 67c9025 | The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1de21dd | The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed | David Mitchell | ||
| 1c9ce2a | Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. | escape | David Mitchell | |
| bb22ec0 | Emperors are vain and useless things. | emperors goliath | Scott Westerfeld | |
| b24610d | The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time. | kittens priorities | Lloyd Alexander | |
| a8ba2cc | I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me. | emptiness | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 283b4a7 | There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. | Colum McCann | ||
| 0f1bdaf | Nobody falls halfway | Colum McCann | ||
| 0dc1ee6 | We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9eca4ce | I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from God. But now I really was happy, for I had learnt that man is a monstrosity. I had been right in feeling all things as odd, for I myself was at once worse and better than all things. The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on the unnaturalness o.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7224442 | Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5fb55e5 | I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a0956e0 | Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck." -- | ilona-andrews kate magic-bleeds saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| 40af810 | Had I known you were going to pull a pretty ribbon out of your sleeve like some two-bit magician, tie me up with it, and indulge your mental torture fetish in your basement, I would've shot you. Many times." "Two-bit magician?" "Men like you enjoy being flattered." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 9e78e95 | Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that." | holly sacrifice touching | Eoin Colfer | |
| a56a6d0 | Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks? | butler eoin-colfer humor | Eoin Colfer |