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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | heroes famous-beginnings coincidence clocks birth 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." | words patriarchal language | 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 | ||
| adcb84b | Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before. | science psychology | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 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. | inspiration gemma-doyle | 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. | love forgiveness | Ann Patchett |