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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 45270ff | I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines | Joanne Harris | ||
| 4ed2407 | That cat doesn't have a lick of sense,' I said, sighing. Well, honey, he's not right in the head,' Dad said, flipping his cigarette into the front yard. I glared at him. 'And just what do you mean by that?' Dad counted on his fingers. 'He's cross-eyed; he jumps out of trees after birds and then doesn't land on his feet; he sleeps with his head smashed up against the wall, and the tip of his tail is crooked.' Oh yeah? Well, how about this: h.. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 4a0e413 | No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to stuggle for life! | Art Spiegelman | ||
| dc33455 | I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]. | Richard Wright | ||
| 55039e5 | Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions. | lesbian lgbt love patricia-highsmith stereotypes the-price-of-salt | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 3829f70 | Having someone you love say "Thank you" is more rewarding than just having them say "I love you." | Ai Yazawa | ||
| c4a8c5d | If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her. | silence | John Fowles | |
| fa5c1d9 | I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality. | John Fowles | ||
| 639674e | Elizabeth's entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by reasoning with him. "A gently bred Englishwoman," she shakily quoted Lucinda's lecture. "feels nothing stronger than affection. We do not fall in love." His warm lips covered hers. "I'm a Scot," he murmured huskily. "We do." | elizabeth ian judith-mcnaught | Judith McNaught | |
| 2fa17fa | The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 59d6b0f | I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0b6a093 | Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful... | friendship l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 984a599 | I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. | love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| a025784 | For the first time, I yearn for tomorrow and cherish yesterday and live for today. It's peace that no one will take from me. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 02929f8 | Big bad wolf, are you going to eat me?" You're a dirty girl, Calloway. My gaze drops to her mouth. "Until you fucking scream." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| a23095b | Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7b74967 | Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d216f68 | Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 72afa0c | The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9571522 | When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. | survival-instinct | Yann Martel | |
| 495d345 | Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0a299c4 | However, you will find that I will only have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f53d4d9 | You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen." | tom-riddle | J.K. Rowling | |
| 89c69e7 | Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently running my fingers over her cheek. I marveled at the softness of her skin, the gentleness I saw in her eyes. Even now she was perfect. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| aedf4d9 | There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| abb877c | And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0f66435 | This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out. First you will smile, and then you will cry - don't say you haven't been warned. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| da25fa7 | Yeah. Almost as surprising as when you nailed me with your father's car." In the interest of avoiding confrontation, I felt compelled to explain. I didn't feel obliged to do it convincingly. "It was an accident. My foot slipped." "That was no accident. You jumped the goddamn curb and followed me down the sidewalk." | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 4ea1358 | It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 130dacd | You can't believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There's, like, whales and storms and shit! They don't bloody tell you that! | sailing sea | Libba Bray | |
| aa2ead5 | Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else. | gemma-doyle inspiration | Libba Bray | |
| 099c761 | I hate this place," Tiara whimpered. "It's super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese's where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza." | Libba Bray | ||
| bb26ed0 | People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappoint them, or if they do, the owners manage to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me. | forgiveness love | Ann Patchett | |
| 9b02a3b | There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 20a21a1 | It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ef2fc71 | It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 09814e6 | Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f6dcfa2 | All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1005b11 | A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it? | Ian Fleming | ||
| b03298f | When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it. | literature reading | Nicole Krauss | |
| 8596cc6 | These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept. | love past | Laura Dave | |
| c402107 | Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. "There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can't budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?" God's seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared." | Max Lucado | ||
| 2df2f1d | When he says we're forgiven, let's unload the guilt. When he says we're valuable, let's believe him. . . . When he says we're provided for, let's stop worrying. God's efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless | faith guilt inspirational | Max Lucado | |
| 05e12a1 | Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill. | Paulo Coelho |