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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ea86d84 | This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. | life | Michael Cunningham | |
| 90c5d42 | The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain? | Ted Dekker | ||
| 5399f9b | Every letter was a love letter. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| c441543 | The birth of the mind is the death of the senses | Dan Millman | ||
| 69e2983 | I despise people who can't control themselves. | Truman Capote | ||
| a7593e6 | There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c2feb15 | The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known. | responsibility temptation | Edith Wharton | |
| f982394 | The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 71aced8 | The waiter approached. 'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?' 'Huh?' said Ford. 'Huh?' said Arthur. 'Huh?' said Trillian. 'That's cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat. | humour | Douglas Adams | |
| babc839 | Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. ~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer) | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6f4808b | And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e0cdb56 | And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8b1e68b | The Resurrection was the greatest 'eucatastrophe' possible in the greatest Fairy Story -- and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c04aecf | Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit--may the hair on his toes never fall out! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d12acc4 | Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. | Herman Melville | ||
| 0c882ae | A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time," she said. "I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")" | witches witch | Ray Bradbury | |
| 17aa856 | I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 97190a5 | Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience? | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 4aa1a9e | What else? I also believe that if someone comes up behind you on the freeway and flashes their lights to get you to move into the slow lane, they deserve whatever punishment you dole out to them. I promptly slow down and drive at the same speed as the car beside me so that I can punish Speed Racer for his impertinence. Actually, it's not the impertinence I'm punishing him for, it's that he let other people know what he wanted. Speed Racer, .. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 50abdc6 | You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be. | work purpose-of-life plot | Douglas Coupland | |
| 2ef2445 | I want to live here. In his arms. Where I know it's safe. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 1d60375 | To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 4553212 | Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 343dcaf | you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 63e2469 | He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them. | life | Katherine Paterson | |
| b608ace | And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 378ca2d | If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork. | god belief | Khaled Hosseini | |
| a3b00ff | What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself.. | poverty politics class-warfare | Thomas Sowell | |
| 0bdba13 | I solemnly swear that I am up to no good... or Malfoy is anyway. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 988971d | Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs! | sir-cadogan | J.K. Rowling | |
| dbb82bb | I'm a teacher! A teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!" "I'm sorry, ," said Harry, emphasizing the last word. Hagrid looked stunned. "Since when have yeh called me 'sir'?" "Since when have you called me 'Potter'?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 59ac087 | I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 12d2852 | Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. Thats what it's like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt that you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me love like t.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2bf3b1f | Richard...," Julie said, staring down at the open jewelry case in her hand. Inside was an ornate, heart-shaped locket supported by a gold chain. "It's beautiful. But... why? I mean, what's the occasion?" "No occasion. I just saw it and, well... I liked it. Or rather, I thought of you and knew you should have it." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9827b5b | It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen | true-love sad | Nicholas Sparks | |
| e21b0b1 | If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7369832 | Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bc77469 | Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver. | love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| f23854b | Trust me on this: no one is better off alone. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7c8ff37 | Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| f5671ef | The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books. | Lois Lowry | ||
| bf32618 | Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not." | Libba Bray | ||
| 04b51d3 | 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly. | Libba Bray | ||
| 40aa9df | The world is a lie...not you and me. | Libba Bray |