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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 44f2c7a | Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whole misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, b.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 1d8d66d | I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? | William Shakespeare | ||
| 92e70cb | God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. | William Shakespeare | ||
| a31ca63 | The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She ha.. | Henry James | ||
| 07370f8 | Alicia: ?Cuanto tiempo es para siempre? Conejo blanco: A veces, solo un segundo. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| f1413cc | Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 4380072 | Beautiful. He called me beautiful! But wait. I don't like Dave. Do I like Dave? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 4b7ab24 | Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. | maximum-ride save-the-world noble nevermore | James Patterson | |
| dabca87 | That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation. | inspirational | Maya Angelou | |
| 01848e3 | If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it. | effort | Emily Brontë | |
| 9076c4e | I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 546810c | I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, be.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 43ebef1 | Not only do we all have magic, it's all around us as well. We just don't pay attention to it. Every time we make something out of nothing, that's an act of magic. It doesn't matter if it's a painting or a garden, or an abuelo telling his grandchildren some tall tale. Every time we fix something that's broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that's an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we *choose* to create or help, j.. | magic | Charles de Lint | |
| f7ba948 | She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 02bb4ba | The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered .. | hyde jekyll robert-louis-stevenson rebirth transformation | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 4cbd3ea | And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is king of the Mud. That is all he can see. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 231985c | Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 2724ccd | Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5c67f26 | There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence. | violence war | Tom Robbins | |
| 6f8ca99 | How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries? | Brené Brown | ||
| 07e1db8 | MANIFESTO OF THE BRAVE AND BROKENHEARTED There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers Than those of us who are willing to fall Because we have learned how to rise With skinned knees and bruised hearts; We choose owning our stories of struggle, Over hiding, over hustling, over pretending. When we deny our stories, they define us. When we run from struggle, we are never free. So we turn toward truth and look it in the .. | Brené Brown | ||
| e0b35bc | For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is "I didn't get enough sleep." The next one is "I don't have enough time." Whether true or not, that thought of not enough occurs to us automatically before we even think to question or examine it. We spend most of the hours and the days of our lives hearing, explaining, complaining, or worrying about what we don't have enough of. ...Before we even sit up in bed, before our fe.. | Brené Brown | ||
| e9aea09 | You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5de14fb | I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted. | love partnership | Joan Didion | |
| af1568f | It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young. | Joan Didion | ||
| 4e049b4 | There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven. | funny life-quotes | Alice Sebold | |
| 27c4ada | I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one, | Billy Collins | ||
| cfc3815 | A woman who acts like a fool is a fool. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 9606d3f | There I go being critical again. Does a man have to stand on one foot and juggle for me to consider him entertaining? What am I looking for? A knight?...No, knights are all polished and shiny. I think my taste runs to something with a bit of tarnish and maybe a few scratches. Someone who can make me laugh and cry and make me angry and make my knees tremble when he touches me. | Nora Roberts | ||
| c37a6ad | Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks | Dan Brown | ||
| c49ec9a | Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther | Dan Brown | ||
| 02ff74f | It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts. | Dan Brown | ||
| 36f4818 | God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements. | Rick Warren | ||
| 3df638a | I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last. | james-frey break sad | James Frey | |
| 8db1ce2 | This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I'll destroy it. Love me, I'll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life. | love self-destruction | James Frey | |
| 86f7635 | Me?" he said in some surprise. "I won't be dancing! It's the bridal dance. The bride and groom dance alone!" For one circuit of the room," she told him. "After which they are joined by the best man and first bridesmaid, then by the groomsman and the second bridesmaid." Will reacted as he had been stung. He leaned over to speak across Jenny on his left, to Gilan. Gil! Did you know we have to dance?" he asked. Gilan nodded enthusiastically. O.. | John Flanagan | ||
| f984cd6 | Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force. | Euripides | ||
| e5ddfd3 | que toda la historia de los pasadizos era una ridicula invencion o creencia mia y que en todo caso habia un solo tunel, oscuro y solitario: el mio, el tunel en que habia transcurrido mi infancia, mi juventud, toda mi vida. Y en uno de esos trozos transparentes del muro de piedra yo habia visto a esta muchacha y habia creido ingenuamente que venia por otro tunel paralelo al mio, cuando en realidad pertenecia al ancho mundo, al mundo sin limi.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| e427afd | He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything. | Jack London | ||
| 6b1b580 | The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. | Jack London | ||
| aaef4cf | Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 172ad7e | Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. | Charles Dickens | ||
| e1813c6 | I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart - and you'll see how nice I can be. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| a892fa3 | Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'.. | Frank Herbert |