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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 122fb8b | Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them. | Dan Brown | ||
| 3add55e | It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 212cfcf | Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves"." | rebirth struggle turning-point | Napoleon Hill | |
| 60bf8ed | This Girl with nothing but her own strength and a desire to be free. With nothing but a beating heart that is scared to be alone. With nothing but clear blue eyes that see through me and understand me. With nothing but open arms ready to receive me. To stand by me. To walk with me. To love me. I love her. Lilly. The Girl with nothing and everything. Lilly. I love her. A tear appears. She smiles. She leans forward kisses my lips softly kisse.. | James Frey | ||
| eae0482 | Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live. | James Frey | ||
| 0ed331c | And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change. | James Frey | ||
| 28347ef | I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy. The sun is up and the sky is blue empty blue light blue clear blue. I would drink the sky if I could drink it, drink it and celebrate it and let it fill me and become me. I am getting better. Empty and clear and light and blue. I am getting better. | James Frey | ||
| 60b9440 | Books can inspire you to love yourself more, but by listening to, writing out, or verbally expressing your feelings you are actually doing it. | John Gray | ||
| 46d7c09 | Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside. | Anne Carson | ||
| b3adedf | tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart! | Euripides | ||
| 426671b | Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God | John Eldredge | ||
| f691612 | A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into. | John Eldredge | ||
| 2806270 | He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away. | Jack London | ||
| 78401fc | Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. | birth clocks coincidence famous-beginnings heroes midnight | Charles Dickens | |
| 92e5235 | Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. | love our-mutual-friend | Charles Dickens | |
| 6f8f912 | There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. | Frank Herbert | ||
| f3e7323 | This "sir, yes sir" business, which would probably sound like horseshit to any civilian in his right mind, makes sense to Shaftoe and to the officers in a deep and important way. Like a lot of others, Shaftoe had trouble with military etiquette at first. He soaked up quite a bit of it growing up in a military family, but living the life was a different matter. Having now experienced all the phases of military existence except for the termin.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 75b7a97 | Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 2dd7b14 | Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions." | language patriarchal words | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 8929041 | The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. | war | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 287b50b | Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way. | humor | Truman Capote | |
| 0a74569 | of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't. | Truman Capote | ||
| 654c16f | He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear. | Edith Wharton | ||
| bb8a081 | The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7a7840d | He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said. | sam | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8b53b71 | Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting. | greetings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c6ff807 | Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" "But no living man am I!" | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8ebdf2f | History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f6313cb | Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower, leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by! Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this w.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 298fbbd | When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding expose. | Dennis Cooper | ||
| 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 |