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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 28b7423 | My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 314d515 | Cash or check?" he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? "Bank's closed, pal." | Libba Bray | ||
| d1d97d0 | Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break. | fiction | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 638710a | Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a1a65ae | Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 27b2356 | Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 5051936 | Woman, where are they? Has no one judged you guilty?" She answers "No one, sir." Then Jesus says, "I also don't judge you guilty. You may go now, but don't sin anymore." If you have ever wondered how God reacts when you fail, frame these words and hang them on the wall.Read them. Ponder them.Drink from them. Stand below them and let them wash over your soul. Or better still, take him with you to to your canyon of shame. Invite Christ to jou.. | Max Lucado | ||
| 563989d | We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words | Max Lucado | ||
| faab7bc | In life, a person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they're doing. Then they find that they're hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2cc8109 | We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity. | like-the-flowing-river paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| c85671a | I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. "When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way." "Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 51139ef | If or when I do start going to an analyst, I hope to God he has the foresight to let a dermatologist sit in on the consultation. A hand specialist. I have scars on my hands from touching certain people... Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| de3c6f2 | I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d850172 | The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| a28785c | She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sor.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| da82ebc | There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two.. | wall | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6b263af | To oppose something is to maintain it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ea3af83 | If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8bb395c | He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. | Ursula K. Le guin | ||
| 5ac8205 | So what if you burned a few books? Those librarians deserve it. When we're older, maybe we'll burn it to the ground together." She knew he meant it. He'd burn the library, the city, or the whole world to ashes if she asked him. It was their bond, marked by blood and scent and something else she couldn't place. A tether as strong as the one that bound her to her parents, stronger in some ways." | bonded family-ties | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f968725 | Do not get distracted. Do not linger. You are a warrior, and warriors know when to pick their fights.' I nodded, our breath mingling. Rhys growled. 'They took what is ours. And we do not allow those crimes to go unpunished.' His power rippled and swirled around me. 'You do not fear,' Rhys breathed. 'You do not falter. You do not yield. You go in, you get her, and you come out again.' I nodded again, holding his stare. 'Remember that you a.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3a18a9c | She didn't know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want to rip and roar and rend the world into pieces. She felt it all--too keenly, too sharply. Hated and cared and loved and dreaded, more than other people, she sometimes thought. | cassian nesta sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e75be13 | My father will hunt you for taking his power if he finds out," he said into the frigid dark. "And kill you for learning how to wield it." "He can get in line," was all I said." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4f31448 | What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you? | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 6bf22d9 | Always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves. | love nature spring | E.E. Cummings | |
| 12a221a | Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race. | Umberto Eco | ||
| e6acc57 | O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, | Walt Whitman | ||
| 5c54f6a | Shane talking to Claire - "Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..." "Shut up" Claire said." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 7cc2a9e | Morley joined them, and after a long, uncomfortable moment, Mrs. Grant decided to ignore his presence. The guards didn't. Their knuckles were white on their weapons. May I assist?" he asked, and put his hands behind his back. "I promise not to eat anyone." Very funny," Mrs. Grant said. Morley gave her a grave look. I wasn't joking, dear lady," he said. "I do promise. And I never make a promise I don't intend to keep. You should feel quite s.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 015ed78 | Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?" | Rachel Caine | ||
| 102e590 | We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 96ed8fd | In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren't enough euros to go around. "The entire EU is short on coins." And I say, "Really?" because there are plenty of them in Germany. I'm never asked for exact change in Spain or Holland or Italy, so I think the real problem lies with the Parisian cashiers, who are, in a w.. | cashiers europe euros hospitality japan paris tokyo | David Sedaris | |
| 43c7a1f | You crazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!" But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. "So what? All writers are lunatics!" | Cornelia Funke | ||
| eb57427 | Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 120f870 | You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me! | sweet | Cornelia Funke | |
| a6c0f97 | We all suffer from dreams. | false-hope illusions suffering | Bernard Cornwell | |
| a56a369 | Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work. | Richard Bach | ||
| a6b4a18 | When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong. | bullet | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| ebaf8b9 | Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4fbcef7 | Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake | vampires | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 5131874 | lS`wb@ ltkmn fy m`ysh@ lns nm fy fhmhm . | José Saramago | ||
| 989d610 | Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived. | limits | José Saramago | |
| 527c7fc | Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing | Don DeLillo | ||
| a8943bf | Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut.. | Norman Maclean |