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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f2180f2 | Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7969c6b | Scars crossed her welded wrists. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| df38857 | It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not lawtype honest--I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment--but unto-thyself-type honest. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may .. | Truman Capote | ||
| 8f19c78 | the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. | politics saints | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| fc3ad15 | Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. | humor ray-bradbury nerdiness science-fiction | Junot Díaz | |
| cce214b | l , l 'ryd 'n yfhmny bshry 'dh kn fhmh 'yy Drban mn l`bwdy@ lm`nwy@ . wm 'kthr ldhyn ytwhmwn 'nhm yfhmwnn l'nhm wjdw fy b`D mZhrn shy'yan shbyhan bm khtbrwh mr@ fy Hythm . wlythm yktfwn bd`y'hm drk 'srrn - tlk l'srr lty nHn dhwtn l ndrkh - wlknhm ySmwnn b`lmt w 'rqm thm yD`wnn `l~' rf mn rfwf 'fkrhm w`tqdthm mthlm yf`l lSydly bqnny ldwy@ wlmsHyq ! | جبران خليل جبران | ||
| e46e256 | The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul.. | poetry truth growth soul | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 81ee0ae | Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's .. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| fcb7ad3 | The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. | time | Jonathan Swift | |
| d8c04a3 | If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles. | patriotism | Howard Zinn | |
| 9c452a4 | Lily Calloway...all this time, your superpower has been loving me." Tears cloud my eyes, and they don't stop, especially as he adds, "And you'll be happy to know that I'm not mortal." "You aren't?" I choke. "No." He shakes his head, brushing away the wetness beneath my eyes. "Because my superpower is the love that I have for you. It's out of this world, extraordinary, incomprehensible kind of love. And no one and nothing on this Earth com.. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| ae402d4 | I love the way he's staring at me. It makes me feel more than just beautiful. I feel like I'm his. Like no one else could possibly compare to me. He doesn't even have to say the words. I see it in his eyes. I can practically read it in his mind. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 73dee3d | Some days, I listen to that clock ticking in the hallway. Then I think of all the ticks, all the minutes, all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without you. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart. I get so weak. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d3ec6c2 | Zindagi migzara (life goes on) | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bcf567c | She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little whistle gave her a pleased feeling--even a disagreeable little girl may be lonely, and the big closed house and big bare moor and big bare gardens had made this one feel as if there was no one left in the world but herself. If she had been an affectionate child, who had been used to being loved, she would have broken her heart, but even though she was "Mistress Mary Q.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ba2072b | She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. | love | E.M. Forster | |
| b38e18f | One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!" | E.M. Forster | ||
| 645d1b7 | Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. " knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?" "My gun." Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a ?" "It was a very good gun." | rising vespers cahill grace pilot gun | Gordon Korman | |
| 0e2c509 | If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you! | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 55d9113 | O, Boze, zasto si mi dao srce koje me bez prestanka vuce za daljinom i ljepotom nevidenih krajeva? Zasto si ucinio da sreca moja uvijek boravi ondje gdje mene nema? | Ivo Andrić | ||
| c10e66d | Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light | light darkness-and-light | Alan Brennert | |
| b675b38 | He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f5894bb | Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something li.. | lupin | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8013af0 | When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and trying to put them in detention for things like "breathing loudly" and "looking happy." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 058226d | But I got this far, didn't I?" he said slowly. "They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here . . . and you're in my power. . . . I'm the one with the wand. . . . you're at my mercy. . ." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 754a36a | Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 121dfe1 | The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware. | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| bcd9197 | I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Gr.. | generalizations greeks | Louis de Bernières | |
| b5dad37 | They didn't have to be funny -- they were jokes. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 987e0de | A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing | fiction sparks autism nicholas | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a90917c | When I told you that I'd pray for you, what did you think I was talking about? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 480934f | A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future. | sweet | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 12e3536 | I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 20ccdf8 | Men like women who know how to be subtle. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 789d981 | leaning in he kissed her gently, first on the cheek then on her lips. When he met her eyes, she saw the young man shed loved last summer and the young man she still loved now. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3564b67 | Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 83bc5d6 | Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut. | women | Janet Evanovich | |
| 6002694 | Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said." | sizzling-sixteen stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 71ff0ae | Ranger clicked his penlight on. "Hang onto me if you can't see." I curled my hand into the back of his cargo pants just above his gun belt. "I'm good to go." He was still for a beat. "You could have held on to my jacket," he said. "Would you rather I do that?" "No. Not even a little." | stephanie | Janet Evanovich | |
| bab47ff | Nothing Personal? You've harrassed my mother, stolen my car, and now you're telling people I've gotten you pregnant! In my opinion, getting someone pregnant is pretty fucking personal! Jesus, isn't it enough I'm accused of murder? What are you the bounty hunter from hell? | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 5a7f046 | Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate. | Claire Messud | ||
| 344b308 | I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 8d8871b | Do me this one, great favor, Jones. If ever you hear anyone, when you are back home...if ever you hear anyone speak of the East," and here his voice plummeted a register, and the tone was full and sad, " . If you are told 'they are all this' or 'they do this' or 'their opinions are these,' withhold your judgment until all the facts are upon you. Because that land they call 'India' goes by a thousand names and is populated by millions, and i.. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 8f29da2 | What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears? | funny | Libba Bray |