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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7f0ccfd | What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the che.. | responsibility courage destiny empowerment self-improvement self-control | Anais Nin | |
| 9565d0a | You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating. | edward insults | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 1d394c2 | The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity. | pain | Graham Greene | |
| 92a7ff7 | Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 0e0b076 | I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. | self-image | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 175f460 | I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. "Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me." I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. | romance | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 0d5b13f | I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 2ff93af | It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. | library home | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| d808802 | With each day he felt the barriers melting. He them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she would win. | chaol-westfall throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e539a34 | Give me all of you!!! I don't want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work. I want YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures will do. I don't want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and drea.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| f889a32 | Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment." | identity inquisitiveness consequence importance | William Goldman | |
| 3c81e97 | Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance? | maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 413e120 | Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. "I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had neve.. | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| c30923f | We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence. | nature | Charlotte Brontë | |
| f1eb546 | Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 545e37d | Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you? | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| b8bf2a4 | It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, | positive-living money kindness spirit compassion self-awareness spirituality happiness life love philosophy wisdom inspirational purposeful-living happy-life attention oneness purpose-in-life positive-attitude purpose-of-life meaning-of-life self-discovery perspective meditation purpose revelation peace respect | Amit Ray | |
| 7533a03 | Only the Dead stay seventeen forever. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0850ec2 | Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. | writing plath sylvia | Sylvia Plath | |
| 72da020 | Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS." | John Green | ||
| 4dbf391 | If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| bf33462 | You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends." | trust james-potter loyalty | J.K. Rowling | |
| 42940ce | I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for a.. | life | Jack Kerouac | |
| ca42404 | Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 15c8cfd | Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 5d93fd1 | He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth at the Grand Canyon last winter,when she'd marched toward him with that Give me Percy Jackson or I'll kill you expression, Leo had thought of blondes as much too smart and much too dangerous. | blondes leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| b78b01c | You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. | inspirational | Yann Martel | |
| a405a64 | Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e29e4fa | She looked at them, at the three males who meant everything--more than everything. Then she smiled with every last shred of courage, of desperation, of hope for the glimmer of that glorious future. "Let's go rattle the stars." | aelin-galathynius rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows | Sarah J. Maas | |
| cd547f9 | Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted. Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly. Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-" No, Alec," Isabelle said irritably. "Not like that. He's a " She's drunk," said Jace, beginning to turn away in disgust. I'm not," Isabelle said indignantly. "Well, maybe a little, but that's not the point. The point is, Simon drank one of those blue d.. | simon-lewis rat transformation | Cassandra Clare | |
| abc375e | We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. | inspirational | George R.R. Martin | |
| 07fd4d9 | After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fbc26b3 | The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 92cd6eb | I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red. | simile | Rick Riordan | |
| b7c1abd | I love you,' he whispered, and kissed my brow. 'Thorns and all. | love tamlin thorns | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f8f980f | Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 50fc388 | A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine .. | Ayn Rand | ||
| cdce9ec | You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2d331c3 | We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. | Carl Sagan | ||
| c8827cd | You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine." Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?" Y-yes, Mr. D." Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?" You're a god." Yes, child." A god. You." | grover-underwood percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 8f2a043 | My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9f991b8 | Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar | metaphor life zen | Jim Butcher | |
| 0b29989 | You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? | Oscar Wilde | ||
| a4c23b1 | Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are. | relationship life | Vladimir Nabokov |