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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 31aa6b6 | It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. | poems poetry | Virginia Woolf | |
| 4e00e64 | The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think a.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 75a43ca | Belief creates behaviors. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 86a7e36 | When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2bc650a | You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 99283d5 | I'm lucky that I'm afraid of losing something. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 4d4e554 | I am too dark in my heart tonight. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f06386e | People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e21b63f | We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 70fc861 | None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c8be95a | After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams. | given kingdom woman | Judith McNaught | |
| 8be6649 | Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe. | Pat Conroy | ||
| b1de435 | Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 93ca856 | Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing! | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 89ceef8 | What the hell is wrong with you?" he asked. It was a good question." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 221ee67 | For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom. | James Baldwin | ||
| afe7225 | I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. | Willa Cather | ||
| 8da53c7 | But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in.. | Willa Cather | ||
| 6e3ff5a | I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering. | John Green | ||
| 279d934 | But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera. | John Green | ||
| 731d697 | But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? | ideas words | L.M. Montgomery | |
| aa80544 | To dispair is to turn your back on God. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4c9bf80 | There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage." | escape freedom love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 3e7ce44 | When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. | listening work | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| af16ec9 | he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 4023859 | Except that wasn't all. The real fun began when a kite was cut. That was where the kite runners came in, those kids who chased the windblown kite drifting through the neighborhoods until it came spiraling down in a field, dropping in someone's yard, on a tree or a rooftop. The chase got pretty fierce; hordes of kite runners swarmed the streets, shoved past each other like those people from Spain I'd read about once, the ones who ran from th.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 85b99ab | Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea? | life | James Hilton | |
| 1876899 | So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 198aab4 | We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fd24dec | I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?" | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2274a0b | Loony, Loopy Lupin. | peeves remus-lupin | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3b729bb | Offend Dobby!" choked the elf. "Dobby has been asked to sit down by a wizard -- like an --" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4badc2e | A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 46df2d0 | Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 83b4c00 | By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her. | harry harry-potter humor j-k-rowling order-of-the-phoenix professor-trelawney | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8748875 | You see what you expect to see, Severus. | what-goes-around-comes-around | J.K. Rowling | |
| 6c5ed6b | Then he asked if I didn't like things changing. And I said I wouldn't mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 78316ad | It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7243bdb | The world is a better place when you smile | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 018ddbb | I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching. | hope | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 0120f09 | I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday. | forever love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 51f7a23 | You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms." Joe Morelli" -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 80fa231 | He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 6a6d0b1 | It's hard to give up the being together with someone. | friendship giving-up love moving moving-on relationship | Lois Lowry |