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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 367d2c5 | Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. | inspirational | George Orwell | |
| 4df9776 | I took a bite of cookie and chewed. "Hmmm," I said, trying not to spit crumbs. "Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious." I turned to Fang. "What say you?" "It's fine." Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie." | James Patterson | ||
| e4a9321 | You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy | Jane Austen | ||
| 2d284e7 | Things do not change; we change. | philosophy inspirational common-sense | henry david thoreau | |
| 39c0467 | And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| da99980 | Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you. | John Green | ||
| 00ed3a1 | Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone. | one-direction sacrifice life love inspirational cute | Zayn Malik | |
| fec1cff | Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5ae601f | I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea. | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | ||
| 93831db | You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself." | self-acceptance | Mitch Albom | |
| 2c42c91 | If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. | monsters | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 287c7a8 | For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps. | John Green | ||
| a160e42 | Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? | keep-trying inspirational | Marilyn Monroe | |
| 8aa8953 | When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. | hemingway spring | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 6e85a1c | Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. | Willa Cather | ||
| b591e8c | I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| e375e07 | Alas! Earwax! | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2b84310 | And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| a81bb06 | there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't | secret | Charles Bukowski | |
| f54e843 | Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you." | jem-carstairs will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9b034f0 | Butterfly. What a beautiful word What a delicate creature. Delicate like the cruel words that flow right out of your mouths and the food that flies right out of your hands... Does it make you feel better? Does it make you feel good ? Does picking on a girl make you more of a man? Well, I'm standing up for myself Like I should have done before I'm not putting up with your Butterfly anymore." (Kiersten slides the sack off her wrist and opens .. | Colleen Hoover | ||
| 52d61ac | The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. | rules | John Green | |
| c6fb095 | Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a2f1462 | I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. | happiness inspirational | J. Richard Lessor | |
| 99db87a | God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'. | prayers | Dan Brown | |
| 1c9a6e4 | The distance is nothing when one has a motive. | Jane Austen | ||
| 38fe0cf | I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us--don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! | poetry | Emily Dickinson | |
| 06942bc | They're in love. Fuck the war. | war | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 247a542 | My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you. | romance dream love yearning need longing | Stephanie Laurens | |
| ecf524b | It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. | heresy freedom-of-thought | Voltaire | |
| 814ca49 | Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. | David Levithan | ||
| 784117c | If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 63ff326 | You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. | marriage relationships family | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 162283d | We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 5991138 | I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours." | heart love | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3c8e009 | You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. | abolition accomplish slavery hope love truth inspirational heard great-britain try christian peace | William Wilberforce | |
| dde46c9 | Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since - on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 0f083d9 | Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 58e2fa4 | The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland. | leaving | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| d769401 | inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 439b937 | There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2f4f13e | If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. | women | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 7ecaca1 | The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. | men feminism women empowerment misogyny gender | Virginia Woolf | |
| 6bb4fab | Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all. | love-the-one-your-with | Emily Giffin |