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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b453e7 | There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 2bd9973 | there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1cb8410 | It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary | Franz Kafka | ||
| bffbb2c | One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug... | Franz Kafka | ||
| 85c405e | lky'n lnsn~ lys l sh`wran blwHd@. | Milan Kundera | ||
| ab0bb6e | You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 5198345 | The worst of all fears is the fear of living | Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| 81b270f | The law presides over things of this world, finally. The world where shadow is shadow and light is light, yin is yin and yang is yang, I'm me and he's him. 'I am me and / He is him/ Autumn eve.' But you don't belong to that world, sonny. The world you belong to is above that or below that." Which is better?" I asked, out of simple curiosity. "Above or below?" It's not that either one is better," he said. After a brief coughing fit, he spat .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c006cd8 | April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and wait for it to.. | norwegian-wood | Haruki Murakami | |
| 245c9f3 | Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ] | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 209a076 | I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c10d7bd | Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?" "It is if you first become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or grass or a flower. It takes time, but once the butterfly lets its guard down, you can become friends quite naturally." ... " ... I come here every day, say hello to the butterflies, and talk about things with them. When the time comes, thou.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 88ac442 | My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. | Murakami Haruki | ||
| afab4ba | But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'.. | escape reading flawed relatable | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 0bde1c7 | Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 28ca3a1 | Even the most beautiful things can be toxic. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b585401 | Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cdb53bd | This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f737a38 | INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, . Limit of the.. | memorized | James Joyce | |
| 0e3352c | Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy. | Roald Dahl | ||
| d444af5 | Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 6e4059d | The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon. | religion humor | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 32a560a | There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had. | life misery | Raymond Carver | |
| f9c1348 | No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 61ceb5a | Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1b36687 | Can you keep a secret?" "Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain't nothing going to get out." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 021aebe | Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c77d643 | Don't be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You'll never find peace in that. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d8d7570 | Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else." | sex | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| fbeacec | You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a7d8c0b | So, what's your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 213ffc9 | If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 85b87e2 | It doesn't matter what other people think. The only opinion that really matters is yours. We are all the writers of our lives. We can make our stories comedies or tragedies. Tales of horror, or of inspiration. Your attitude and your fortitude and courage are what determine your destiny, Nick.... Life is hard and it sucks for all. Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them. And.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0420cae | About Daniel: Two, he hates Clay * Five, he really hates Clay. * Nine, he really, really, hates Clay. | clay daniel | Kelley Armstrong | |
| ebcf531 | I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art -- not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 2823b15 | Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man. | Albert Camus | ||
| e116990 | When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quiet and then told me life has no one meaning, it only has whatever meaning each of us puts on our own life. I'll tell you now that I still don't know the meaning of mine. And Lucas Cader, with all his brains and talent, doesn't know the meaning of his, either. But I'll tell you the meaning of all this. The meaning of some bird showing up and some boy disappearing and you knowing all .. | John Corey Whaley | ||
| 789df92 | There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is the right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead. This is the kind of passionate convi.. | Howard Schultz | ||
| 15bdabb | I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. | living life | Albert Camus | |
| c6867e6 | We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges. | philosophy nihilism | Albert Camus | |
| ed9c54d | All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid. | Iain Banks | ||
| e8f2d30 | There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots. | war soldiers | Iain M. Banks | |
| 2ae2975 | People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 7cbb390 | I shuddered at the image in my head, at the word feed. But Jasper wasn't worried about frightening me, not overprotective like Edward always was. | Stephenie Meyer |