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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d91c8dd | For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 4e60c58 | Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a314f45 | something is always falling apart in me. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 60c16c6 | The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7045395 | Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you. | help precaution superstition | Jodi Picoult | |
| 6f55ef6 | Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d338814 | I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails. | ettiquette | Jodi Picoult | |
| b01862c | she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 30e47a6 | Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight. Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well. He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b24fdc0 | She was the captain of her soul | William Faulkner | ||
| 7ce91f1 | I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. | fool | William Faulkner | |
| 849eb1d | I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. | Roald Dahl | ||
| dee1fde | We don't have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to. | Brené Brown | ||
| de9850a | No empty handed man can lure a bird | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 500f6fb | I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| a785d80 | I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No - no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop] | first-day police-officer | Tamora Pierce | |
| a1b3945 | This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 5571771 | Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success. | success | John C. Maxwell | |
| 7a9392d | That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| ea4ad91 | Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its res.. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 408daa2 | the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light | foliage forest forests halloween october woods | Malcolm Lowry | |
| dfea7fb | I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. | arts bullets music paint painting soft-bullet | O. Henry | |
| bc61f0b | History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. | Will Durant | ||
| 0f0c0cb | Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me! | sacrifice | Georgette Heyer | |
| d6e3782 | Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good. | thoughtful | Clive Barker | |
| a160a8c | Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 61d45cc | Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| fcf53cf | I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 472b2cd | Nothing but good times ahead. | inspirational | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 991207b | Have faith in who you are. Believe that you will recover, and it will truly happen. And don't judge yourself too harshly. Some things are meant to be, and you had to fall so that later you may rise and become what you are truly meant to be. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 9a27a86 | Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. | procrastination | Oscar Wilde | |
| 73c3c63 | The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 406fc4a | The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all." -- | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 7c4ccac | Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages. | bad-things-happen survival survive | James A. Owen | |
| 7a44723 | The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| a231a45 | How can you stand to have me near you?" "The only thing I can't handle is your leaving." | J.R. Ward | ||
| a20c9a7 | I love you. You are my heart beating outside of my chest. | lover-at-last quinn | J. R. Ward | |
| b4931eb | I would do anything for you. Anything." With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase. Actions did mean more than words." | hurt love payne siblings vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 0aecba0 | John lifted his head and looked down at her. His eyes were worried and he was careful as he brushed at her hair. She smiled. "Nah, I'm fine. I'm more than fine." A sly grin bloomed as he mouthed, ain't that the truth. "Hold up there, big man. You think you can make me blush like I'm some girl ? Pulling that sweet talk?" As he nodded, she rolled her eyes. "I'll have you know I'm not the kind of female who goes all dizzy, popping a stile.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| b7b41d2 | Hell, any plan that added "and then we pray" is not a trip to Disneyland." | J.R. Ward | ||
| b4b4b5d | There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 701f6a1 | Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| ac22f6e | Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| a1f5fbd | Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence | incompetence social | Arthur C. Clarke |