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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 08d2f97 | The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is. | Woody Allen | ||
| 0231b08 | Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e265bc0 | People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a390f30 | My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White) | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1f6c4b7 | It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a0a962a | If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c8489fd | Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? | suffering | Jodi Picoult | |
| 65c9b48 | You did really great up there," I tell her, because I don't know how to say what I really want to: that the people you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 481d329 | Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9ba59b4 | Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 93ae59c | Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7c61f3f | I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who. | William Faulkner | ||
| d8aa19b | There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| a3eb8e5 | You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!" | Roald Dahl | ||
| 13518d9 | A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 4f0ae3c | The gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region. | surrender | Orhan Pamuk | |
| b42aa05 | Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 199dcfb | Imagine a Carthage sown with salt, and all the sowers gone, and the seeds lain however long in the earth, till there rose finally in vegetable profusion leaves and trees of rime and brine. What flowering would there be in such a garden? Light would force each salt calyx to open in prisms, and to fruit heavily with bright globes of water--peaches and grapes are little more than that, and where the world was salt there would be greater need o.. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 076e101 | And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| d750af1 | Let the flesh instruct the mind. | Anne Rice | ||
| ef9015b | Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther. | Anne Rice | ||
| 7c9f6b4 | Lights! Lights would be very good right now! (Amanda) Since they hurt my eyes to the point I can barely see, no they wouldn't. Trust me. (Kyrian) Trust you, my left foot! I'm not immortal over here! (Amanda) Yeah, well, in a bad enough car wreck, neither am I. (Kyrian) I really hate your sense of humor. (Amanda) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 07e7660 | Do y'all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone who owns the biggest gun store in town? Of course I got plenty. I got enough Tasers to light up New York City AND Boston just for giggles. (Bubba) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1edd35f | I need dating advice. Fast...Julian, how did you meet your wife?" Julian shrugged. "My brother the sex god cursed me into a book for two thousand years. Grace got drunk on her birthday and summoned me out of it." Vane rolled his eyes. "That's useless. Kyrian? What about you?" "I woke up handcuffed to Amanda." Vane could work with that. "So I need to get a set of handcuffs?" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 84e5e67 | The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it STRENGTH. Those two thing make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 06e76b6 | Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I'd rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d83cc9a | I'm sorry. (Valerius) It's okay. We all have scars. I'm just lucky most of mine are on the outside. (Tabitha) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| be99363 | Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. "How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?" | sarcasm | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| b3bf9a9 | He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 0b9653e | If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them ... they could perceive what they have made of us. | Albert Camus | ||
| dd6e45f | Ian didn't come. He just sat here with you--he said he didn't care what you looked like. He wouldn't let anyone else put a finger on your tank at all, not even me or Mel. But Doc let me watch this time. It was way cool, Wanda. I don't know why you wouldn't let me watch before. They wouldn't let me help, though. Ian wouldn't let anyone touch you but him.' Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so lo.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 14ee60d | I figured if I played nice, I'd get more time with you. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 05542e1 | Aw, hell!" Kyle grumbled. My gaze flickered toward him at the sound of his voice. I could just see his bright eyes around Jared's elbow, focused on me. " It didn't fall!" He complained. Jared lundged forward, away from me. With a loud smacking sound, his fist hit Kyle's face. Kyle's eyes rolled back in his head, and his mouth fell slack. The room was very quiet for a few seconds. "Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm .. | kyle | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 3540af4 | Isabella." He pronounced my full name carefully, then playfully ruffled my hair with his free hand. A shock ran through my body at his casual touch. "Bella, I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don't know how it's tortured me." He looked down, ashamed again. "The thought of you, still, white, cold . . . to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you see through my pretenses . .. | true-love | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 7fdd7e7 | No es el rostro, sino sus expresiones. No es la voz, sino lo que dices. No es como te sienta ese cuerpo, sino las cosas que haces con el, Eres tu la que es hermosa. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1329b67 | If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 04ad97c | It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it. | murder humor kaling mindy fame popularity | Mindy Kaling | |
| 0dea721 | It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 0a657d1 | Dope. They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it. | drugs | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 93378ca | Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. Because I am done with my own whorish heart and I have been for a long time. You talk about taking a stand but there is no stand to take. My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so don't ask for sorrow now. There is none. Maybe you'll .. | saying-goobye wife | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 5e13052 | Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back. | god teenagers | Anne Lamott | |
| 523ab58 | Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. | travel | Eudora Welty | |
| a113b28 | I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| b5b04f3 | I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her? | Simone Elkeles |