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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 828cfd4 | I know this because Tyler knows this. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bd9c00b | I want to have your abortion. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a3dec34 | Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends. | friends | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 323869f | In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. | time future | Dan Simmons | |
| 9ad185f | Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 5c719d5 | Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3731498 | Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0045272 | Have you ever been to Florence?" asked Dr. Igor. "No." "You should go there; it's not far, for that is where you will find my second example. In the cathedral in Florence, there's a beautiful clock designed by Paolo Uccello in 1443. Now, the curious thing about this clock is that, although it keeps time like all other clocks, its hands go in the opposite direction to that of normal clocks." "What's that got to do with my illness?" "I'm .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cbfae78 | Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?" "Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet." | inspirational-attitude the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| a4f4c71 | We are afraid of losing what we have. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9a9be93 | At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d1a7fa2 | When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f7fd3aa | Why is Love more important than Faith? Because Faith is merely the road that leads us to the Greater Love. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 79cb4c7 | Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 2d2fc22 | We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too. | freaks | J.D. Salinger | |
| 0f9232f | You'd better get busy, though, buddy. The goddamn sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what I'm talking about. You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddamn phenomenal world. {...} I used to worry about that. I don't worry about it very much any more. At least I'm still in love with Yorick's skull. At least I always have time enough to stay in love with Yorick's skull. I want an honorable goddamn skull when I'm d.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3f49dbd | Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| e74ae60 | I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am. | suicide life | Amy Sedaris | |
| 61203f7 | Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery. | spiritual truth wisdom | Hermann Hesse | |
| aeaf37a | We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 86f8a79 | Tamlin let out a low snarl of approval, and I bit my bottom lip as he removed his pants, along with his undergarments, revealing the proud, thick length of him. My mouth went dry, and I dragged my gaze up his muscled torso, over the panes of his chest, and then-- "Come here," he growled, so roughly the words were barely discernable. I pushed back the blankets, revealing my already naked body, and he hissed." | love pornographic sexy-romance new-adult-romance erotica-bdsm smut new-adult erotic-romance erotica sexy | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 7479ede | Been eating candies, have you?" "You sent those?" She kept her mouth closed as much as possible. "Of course." He picked up the brown bad of candy on the table. "What's your..." He trailed off as he weighed the bad in his hands. "Didn't I give you three pounds of candy?" She smiled impishly. "You ate half the bag!" "Was I supposed to save it?" "I would have liked some!" "You never told me that." | gifts | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 31bd5d4 | We're too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| dcf8349 | Everything- everything was for Dorian, for his friend. For himself, he had nothing left to lose. He was nothing more than a nameless oath-breaker, a liar, a traitor. | dorian-havilliard | Sarah J. Maas | |
| ff688b9 | But as they rode out of Rifthold, that city that had been her home and her hell and her salvation, as she memorized each street and building and face and shop, each smell and the coolness of the river breeze, she didn't see one slave. Didn't hear one whip. And as they passed by the domed Royal Theater, there was music - beautiful, exquisite music - playing within. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5577880 | I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. | stars poetry life sense-of-wonder pride longing | Roger Zelazny | |
| 81c96a3 | George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?" | friendship george | Tamora Pierce | |
| a54a438 | Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male - I hesitate to say 'man' - or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?" One of the new women snorted. Others snickered. Kel looked at the man, who was momentarily speechless. "If I disagree with you, should I place blame on the misworkings of your manhood? Or do I refrain from so serious an insul.. | mysogyny sexism | Tamora Pierce | |
| 28b1181 | And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!" | sex men warning humor sailors grandmother | Tamora Pierce | |
| 603a8b8 | If you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat | Michael Pollan | ||
| 66f517e | In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 66ddf6f | Even in a dream, even at a posh ball, the Nac Mac Feegle knew how to behave. You charged in madly, and you screamed... politely. pommes frites | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7a79069 | Archbishop James Usher (1580-1656) published in 1654, which suggested that the Heaven and the Earth were created in 4004 B.C. One of his aides took the calculation further, and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth was created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004 B.C., at exactly 9:00 A.M., because God liked to get work done early in the morning while he was feeling fresh. This too was incorrect. By almost a quarter of an hour. .. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0013b39 | but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| add242e | Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3518360 | Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 910bc79 | The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| be892ed | If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression) | Andrew Solomon | ||
| cc159ae | My head is throbbing. I need coffee. Leaving the marbled papers in a state of controlled chaos, I walk through the office and past the page's desk in the Reading Room. I am halted by Isabelle's voice saying, "Perhaps Mr. DeTamble can help you," by which she means "Henry, you weasel, where are you slinking off to?" and this astoundingly beautiful amber-haired tall slim girl turns around and looks at me as through I am her personal Jesus. My .. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| f5d71b3 | Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense. | Susan Mallery | ||
| b3dd2e0 | When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature--fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 9ac2db8 | Breathe and let be. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ba50c3b | The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. | mindfulness moments aware | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 42aec34 | Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes. | Gregory David Roberts |