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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cbd4c18 | Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids. | goats humor kids | Rick Riordan | |
| bd062a3 | Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. "Hang on. What about traps?" He frowned. "Traps?" "Didn't Egyptian tombs have traps?" "Well...sometimes. But this isn't a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse--" "Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better." | Rick Riordan | ||
| b799a22 | We only fail when we stop trying. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 864f943 | she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there's suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter. | Elizabeth Goudge | ||
| a3bd8d8 | Hi." "Hi." I shrug, as though to say "Whatever." In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. "So." "So." I can play this game too. "Poppy." "Poppy. I mean, Magnus." I scowl. He caught me out." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 0679c9e | At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 876d5c1 | May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 4773228 | My father was a strange combination of drill instructor and Alice's white rabbit: he always had someplace important to go and enjoyed bossing everyone else around. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 359f6f3 | The temperature jumped another ninety degrees. Why couldn't anyone see in my life how awesome Noah was? I shoved up my sleeves, welcoming the cold air on my skin. "Echo, stop!" Ashley propelled her self out of the gliter. I froze and then remembered Ashley was damaged. I was going on a date, not to Vegas to elope. Noah's strong hand slipped over my wrist before he entwined his fingers with mine. The sensation of warm flesh against an are.. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 3bdf44f | The truth is, it's hard to get people to like you, but it's even harder to keep people liking you. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| adac705 | Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ef13505 | I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 8decdd2 | But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes--when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables--when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had--when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the so.. | happiness pearls romance tears | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0cd5a18 | I'll stay away from you and you'll stay away from me. I'm already over this insignificant, puny, inconsequential attraction. I don't even remember kissing you." They had reached the cluster of trees in front of the courtyard leading to Frances Catherine's cottage when she told him that outrageous lie. "The hell you have forgotten," he muttered. He grabbed hold of her shoulders and forced her to turn around. Then he took hold of her chin and.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 1f4e7e9 | I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon." | Robert Jordan | ||
| b4e6a40 | Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can. | fiction friends | Arundhati Roy | |
| a441117 | It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said." | lady-chatterley-s-lover | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 626ee89 | Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one's own life. | responsibility | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 2d69d8b | For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief. | Alice Munro | ||
| d9ec968 | I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a1c511c | Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| aec8c44 | All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 498912a | I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into sh.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1b049a7 | And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many things elude me, I'm sure, perhaps everything eludes me. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 98026d9 | Calm --indeed the calmest-- reflection might be better than the most confused decisions | Franz Kafka | ||
| 3759da6 | Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redr.. | guilt mothers sacrifice | Milan Kundera | |
| 585a0a1 | The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. | music pop romance sadness | Nick Hornby | |
| 4ba35d5 | I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 6f95637 | I hate time. It never does what you want it to. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 6e682b5 | Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I'm glad that's not me. It's basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c3c074a | Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 91b5096 | It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ff0f176 | From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move. | japanese | Haruki Murakami | |
| c0014da | Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3249e06 | Artists are those who can evade the verbose. | artists creativity | Haruki Murakami | |
| 039feb6 | You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have. | disaster life | Kim Edwards | |
| fc6f764 | Scientists at first were skeptical that a kitten-type being could exist in the rare Martian atmosphere. As a test, two Earth kittens were put in a chamber that simulated the Martian air. The diary of this experiment is fascinating: 6:00 A.M.: Kittens appear to sleep. 7:02 A.M.: Kitten wakes, darts from one end of cage to another for no apparent reason. 7:14 A.M.: Kitten runs up wall of cage, leaps onto other kitten for no apparent reason. 7.. | Steve Martin | ||
| ad35fed | Empty words almost echo within themselves | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| eb40dfa | People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning. | hopes hoping inspirational options positive wishing | Cecelia Ahern | |
| f4fa2a6 | To Rosie You wrote that card didn't you? From Alex To Alex What card? From Rosie To Rosie Very funny. I no it was you. From Alex To Alex I really don't know what you're talking about. Why would I send you a Valentine's card? From Rosie To Rosie Ha ha! How did you no it was a Valentine's Card! The only way you could no is if you sent it. You love me, you want to marry me. From Alex | love-rosie where-rainbows-end | Cecelia Ahern | |
| a40ea80 | Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e5ae277 | Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6434cbc | I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c345314 | He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better. | Charles Frazier |