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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed5bc33 | Tell me everything about this woman you once knew. Tell me everything she ever told you about Jesus of Nazareth." Marcus saw the fever in his eyes. "Why?" he said, frowning. "Why does it matter?" "Just tell me, Marcus Lucianus Valerian. Tell me everything. From the beginning. Let me decide for myself what matters." And so Marcus did as he was asked. He gave in to his deep need to speak of Hadassah. And all the while he talked of her, he fa.. | hadassah jesus-christ | Francine Rivers | |
| 48b733f | Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. | Chaim Potok | ||
| e82a7b8 | God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 3878eae | Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same. | growth maturity seasons | Sherwood Smith | |
| fec384e | Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us." | good inspirational songs | Sherwood Smith | |
| f8d92d6 | It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness." | love pain shadow-puppets | Orson Scott Card | |
| 2c4fabb | That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apar.. | ender friendship game loss separation walls | Orson Scott Card | |
| eda6584 | Okay, my blog was seriously the least of my worries, but dammit, it was important to me. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3dc455a | Roth heaved a long sigh. "Look. I'm so--I'm sor..." He took a deep breath, trying again. "I'm sorr..." I turned my head toward him, waiting. "You're what? Sorry?" He looked chagrined, lips pursed. "I'm...sorr-ree." "Oh, give me a break. You can't say I'm sorry?" "No." He looked me straight on, serious. "It's not in a demon's vocab." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f7d720c | Are you not going to talk? Just sit there and stare at me like a creeper?" Aiden cracked a half smile. "You called me that once before." "Yeah, because you are a creeper." | alex apollyon cage | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| a56d9b2 | This is good." "Why is it good?" I asked. He pulled out a stethoscope. "It's a good indication that the mutation is on a perfect, cellular level." "Or an indication that I'm pretty damn awesome," Daemon suggested coolly." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7a910d2 | The guy just stood there. Hello. There're zombies everywhere. Try looking behind you, douche canoe. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c9bca77 | What does he smell like?" "Smell like?" I scrunched up my face. "You know, he looks like he'd smell good." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ba9961e | It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey..... | Rick Riordan | ||
| a12f0fb | Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person! | Rick Riordan | ||
| ae6d92d | Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b90cb9f | I'M PRETTY GOOD at multitasking, so I figured I could flee in terror and argue at the same time. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 46ec86e | Hey girl," he said, wiggling his eyebrows. "You must be the riptide, 'cause you sweep me off my feet." He'd be practicing that pickup line for years. He was glad he finally got yo use it." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4001d35 | Yes, Jason Grace." Favonius arched an eyebrow. "I fell in love with a . Does that shock you?" | heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| b75dac8 | Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. | first-sentence opening-lines | Rick Riordan | |
| a4eedfd | No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I...let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more." | percy-jackson vows | Rick Riordan | |
| 046c9fb | My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth. | percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-last-olympian | Rick Riordan | |
| 94d34e0 | The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I'm a barbarian). | Rick Riordan | ||
| 374d0ee | The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out. | David Rakoff | ||
| f75e010 | I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. | chicago | Erik Larson | |
| 9d3d092 | Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars. | Jane Yolen | ||
| 8ea989c | Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels. | life paradise spain | Henry Miller | |
| 730b66e | I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 0c28f03 | he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 87bb52f | Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no one can be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah for long without overcoming this double exclusion -- without transposing the enemy from the sphere of the monstrous... into the sphere of shared humanity and herself from the sphere of proud innocence into the sphere of common sinfulness. .. | god-s-love miroslav-volf | Miroslav Volf | |
| 34bff2f | Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night is, What did I really see this day? | John O'Donohue | ||
| 31b9dda | This isn't me giving him a memory. This is me giving him my heart. | Katie McGarry | ||
| e952d04 | As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me." "So when's the wedding?" Ramsey asked." | rejection wedding | Julie Garwood | |
| 3dcad92 | I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. | death smile | Robert Jordan | |
| 6d5c0fc | Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can. | Robert Jordan | ||
| b8c41cb | God will never disappoint us... If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. ...To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true. | goodness pain suffering trust | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| b6fc3d7 | But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood. | inspirational | Erica Jong | |
| 1ef47ee | And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 63c5677 | Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life. | James Clavell | ||
| 08009dd | Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| d13a223 | Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 7544194 | I read the first chapter of when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| de574d8 | And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you're desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there's the least resistance, you lash yourself. | Franz Kafka | ||
| a24bb41 | There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought | Franz Kafka |