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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 65d7f2c | The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His. | christy catherine-marshall christy-huddleston | Catherine Marshall | |
| 37a1824 | Never name the well from which you will not drink. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| b801b36 | I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years ago--the craft of writing as the art of thinking. Poetry aims for an economy of truth--loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0032b27 | My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm. Clap. Clap. Clap. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1c95987 | Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f00376e | But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c7c0e58 | For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. | thought | George Eliot | |
| 2678ca2 | In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy." "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women as to see themselves in a relationship of connection...I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein that h.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9ac2722 | Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure). | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 869906c | Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. | spiritual values-in-life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 488aaef | Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| c580277 | Still. Four words. And I didn't realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear Neil, If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the wall of a public library children's area, what would it be? Thanks! Lynn I pondered a bit. I'd said a lot about books and kids' reading over the years, and other people had said things pithier and wiser than I ever could. And then it hit me,.. | books book-lover book | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2e4c21a | You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew knew that the other mother loved her as a possession, nothing more, a tolerated pet whose behavior was no longer amusing." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2832ec0 | The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 10d5351 | I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 493b24b | It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 77ae66b | Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it. | reading motivational life | Robert Greene | |
| c84444e | had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. | perfection ingersoll robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll praise greatness perfect respect honor | Thomas Edison | |
| 474864a | Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. | reading vacuity modern-life superficiality critical-thinking computers communication | Harper Lee | |
| 7e95365 | As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost." | responsibility de-politicization participation democracy | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| a026c01 | Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love. | pain | Alain de Botton | |
| cb9c669 | How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to... | Doris Lessing | ||
| 3aa1b5e | There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?" | love orphans children boys | Kate DiCamillo | |
| c421394 | Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4eb43b8 | The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach. | westerfeld uglies tally tally-youngblood | Scott Westerfeld | |
| e9c8e88 | I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| d6c2e9a | Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| a40d232 | The little queen all golden Flew hissing at the sea. To stop each wave Her clutch to save She ventured bravely. As she attacked the sea in rage A holderman came nigh Along the sand Fishnet in hand And saw the queen midsky. He stared at her in wonder For often he'd been told That such as she Could never be Who hovered there, bright gold. He saw her plight and quickly He looked up the cliff he faced And saw a cave Above the wave In which her .. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| ebeb1a3 | Don't leave me alone! A cry in the night, Of anguish heart-stiking, Of soul-killing fright. Live for my living Or else I must die Don't leave me alone. A world heard that cry. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| df3826b | On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 111f42c | We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves. | animal-rights vegan animals | Peter Singer | |
| adc8cf4 | I see. Is Jim with you now?" "Yes, he is. We're having rough sex. You're interrupting. "What are you doing here?" "Looking for Jim in your bed." "He isn't here." "I see that." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ea0d7a4 | Curran, please don't bite his head off." "Why?" "Because it's illegal. Technically you assaulted him first when you threw him across the lawn." "I didn't throw him very far." I rolled my eyes. "I could've thrown him straight up and let him land on the pavement." "That would also be illegal." "You keep bringing this 'illegal' thing up as if it means something to me." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3a1ceeb | Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I .. | maxine magic-bleeds ilona-andrews kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| a57aeaa | Sure you can be a coward and hope somone else changes the wrld for you. You can hide up in that attic of yours until someone knocks on the door and says, 'Oh, hey, they freed the hidden. Want to come out?' Is that what you want" Luke didnt answer "You've got to come, Luke, or you'll hate yourself the rest of your life. When you dont have to hide anymore, even years from now, there'll always be some small part of you whispering 'I don't dese.. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| cadb591 | Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi) | Vince Flynn | ||
| ee3b626 | With great hotness comes great responsibility. | spiderman vampires | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 1764535 | You can have a normal life. It's not too late for you." I nearly laughed. "You've clearly never met my parents. Normal was never an option." | my-love-lies-bleeding | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 89067ec | I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from; The scent of these arm-pits, aroma finer than prayer; This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. | sensuality | Walt Whitman | |
| ddef497 | Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands, and the fields beyond, where the child, leaving his bed, wander'd alone, bare-headed, barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were alive, Out from the patches of briers and blackberries, From the memories of the bird that.. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 96ca6f2 | Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 3594c7a | Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love--the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; | Walt Whitman | ||
| 546845a | Not bad," she finally said. "At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time." "Made myself a batch with it," Shane said. "It's got the biohazard sticker on it in the fridge, so don't bitch if you get flamed. Where'd you pick up the stray?" "Outside. She came to see the room." "You beat her up first, just to make sure she's tough enough?" "Bite me, chilli boy." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1da6ef2 | Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks." "Just most things." | Rachel Caine |