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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dd3d5b8 | We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 1523b74 | The lost glove is happy. | loss melancholy | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| ec084de | Whenever in my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear, bright selves. I am aware of them, without any astonishment, in surroundings they never visited during their earthly existence, in the house of some friend of mine they never knew. They sit apart, frowning at the floor, as if death were a dark taint, a shameful family secret. It is certainly not then - not in dreams - but.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 94681dd | I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 68839b0 | The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. | superstition the-judge | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 5eb406d | Do I hear a challenge?" she whispers, "Oh, Carlos. You know I can't resist a challenge." | challenge kiara-westford | Simone Elkeles | |
| 2de06cc | Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 16b361d | Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar mult.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 6e4fb7d | If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?" | John Berendt | ||
| 4cffdae | an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 5905c42 | Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 0314bbc | Parents are excellent at stating the obvious. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 626f40f | I don't think I pity her. She doesn't strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don't know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don't insist upon that. It's her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me. | Henry James | ||
| 15150ef | I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change. I write to honor beauty. I write to correspond with my friends. I write as a daily act of improvisation. I write beca.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| ae7f9d4 | Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth. | James Redfield | ||
| c36fc8a | I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer | James Patterson | ||
| 118db18 | Angel: What's sauerkraut? Max: You don't want it. Trust me. | James Patterson | ||
| 11dea58 | I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifiedly in love. | James Patterson | ||
| 731c7a1 | As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed. | loneliness people | Charles de Lint | |
| e6ba77a | I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock. | William Goldman | ||
| cc9c03d | What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead? | death-of-a-loved-one widowhood | Jess Walter | |
| 2c2f3c2 | Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled. | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| 8da873f | She dreams a lot. She dreams of Ondines and falling maidens and houses burning in the night. But search her dreams all you like and you'll never find Prince Charming. No knight on a white horse gallops into her dreams to carry her away. When she dreams of love, she dreams of smashed potatoes. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| a701edb | If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case. | darwinism evolution macro-evolution macroevolution science | Charles Darwin | |
| a83f3af | Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| effb6d9 | The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 97e6fad | When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 0fd2d7b | He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 6bffc54 | I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1e2a995 | There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup. | humor | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 0a1c61a | Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| e2035d7 | Fate...may...be...thwarted. | puru | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 31797df | I must read. I must read. I must read. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| a47adfe | I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. | Colum McCann | ||
| 43ea4cb | and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 88fb4a5 | that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 1541f0a | A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction. | peer-pressure women | Natsuo Kirino | |
| 8828bd7 | Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 884b85a | White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 78e16f5 | because where we are is always the most important place. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 05fc3c9 | Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount." | declan ilona-andrews on-the-edge rose | Ilona Andrews | |
| 81c2a2a | The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff. She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough. | dark-volhv kate-daniels roman witch | Ilona Andrews | |
| f9fec67 | I would really like to know", he said with genuine curiosity. "The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out." | rogan | Ilona Andrews | |
| 5cfb9a3 | They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours old and mixed with horse scents. She was hitchhiking. Great. Awesome. At least she always carried a knife with her. When I relayed this to Curran he shrugged and said, "If she kills anybody we'll make it go away." | ilona-andrews julie kate magic-slays | Ilona Andrews |