1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
889
890
891
892
893
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6432ca5 | One of the most effective forms of industrial or military sabotage limits itself to damage that can never be thoroughly proven - or even proven at all - to be anything deliberate. It is like an invisible political movement; perhaps it isn't there at all. If a bomb is wired to a car's ignition, then obviously there is an enemy; if public building or a political headquarters is blown up, then there is a political enemy. But if an accident, or.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| cdd9abd | Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too. | life truth thought | Philip K. Dick | |
| e28fc31 | Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| acf933f | I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them... | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4d2128f | Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs. | lungs inhale | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 0ac6eef | Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe. | sex iran islamic-republic | Azar Nafisi | |
| 788bee0 | Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being. | independence philosophy | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 76ad55c | Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid. | manipulation force | Orson Scott Card | |
| 17e7f2b | But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right | Brian Jacques | ||
| fc594db | I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?" | Robin McKinley | ||
| ba0f7a3 | Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. | Robin McKinley | ||
| a5d5cd4 | I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. | grief loss sorrow heartbreak | Robin McKinley | |
| 1808c64 | I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can't believe I'm here without her."- on losing her best friend" | loss | Nora Ephron | |
| 48d958d | Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 9b12e30 | Conceited people never hear anything but praise. | people praise hear | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| c6706d7 | If you tell me to leave, I'll turn and walk away. I swear that, Ivy, but I had to try one more time. I'm not going to possibly go to my grave without trying. Please. Don't let me go. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6582e3d | To love is not weak. Love is the strongest thing there is. | love | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 03215d5 | She's not going anywhere anytime soon. Dawson knocked her into next week, I think. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 84f9e6c | I...can't believe you have kittens." I wiggled my fingers and the little guy strained to reach them. "What're their names?" Roth snorted. "That one is Fury. The white one is Nitro and the black one is named Thor." "What? You called these cuties something like that, but named a giant snake Bambi?" He bent forward, placing a kiss on my shoulder. It was so fast I wasn't sure he'd actually done it. "There's sweetness in evil," he said. "And rem.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c56565f | He hasn't even eaten at Olive Garden, so I doubt he's a connoisseur of hotels." - Kat "No Olive Garden? Man, we've got to get that boy some endless breadsticks and salad. Travesty." - Daemon" | daemon-black lux lux-series origin katy-swartz | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 7afdc38 | An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 89b2a2a | My favorite son!" Gaea cried. "You are awesome! I knew I could count on you, uh... which one are you again?" -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 42be5e6 | The truth hit him. Jason wasn't quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Reyna had recognized that. Apparently, so did the undead legionnaires. If Jason no longer gave off the right sort of vibe, or aura of a Roman leader... | heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| 905c657 | You are a half-blood," Zoe Nightshade said. Her accent was hard to place. It sounded old-fashioned, like she was reading from a really old book. "One of thy parents was mortal. The other was an Olympian." "An Olympian athlete?" "No," Zoe said. "One of the gods." "Cool!" said Nico." | olympian nico-diangelo nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| f1c5fc0 | I remember something Marcus Aurelius used to tell his son, a quote that later became famous in his Meditations book: Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness. | Rick Riordan | ||
| e214ba4 | Hearth signed, 'is it talking? I don't read sword lips.'" 'what is he saying?' Jack asked. 'I don't read elf hands" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 13d56a8 | Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror. | Rick Riordan | ||
| e831307 | You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered" | Rick Riordan | ||
| eaf4fe9 | If I ever become a king, I'm totally going to ask him for an army of giant golden acid-spitting llamas. Okay, sorry. I got distracted again. | Rick Riordan | ||
| e66fbdc | The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart - a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather. | pain love nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| 589965e | For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me. | Rick Riordan | ||
| be3cc73 | Hello!" The girl in the blood-red dress beamed at Leo. "Are you Dionysus?" There was only one answer to that. "Yes!" Leo yelped. "Absolutely. I am Dionysus." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8c88135 | Don't worry, kid." Blitz brought out the silken cord. "This rope can't be weakened. And Hearthstone's right. We might as well tie it to one another for safety." "That way if we fall," Sam said, "We'll fall together." "Sold," I said, trying to tamp down my anxiety. "I love dying with friends." | Rick Riordan | ||
| aa4e75b | And flash him!" Annabeth's face reddened. "That came out wrong. But yeah, good idea." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8777638 | I wondered if I should start a small fire in Percy Jackson's sink, perhaps burn some bandages in thanks, but I decided that might strain that Jackson's hospitality. | funny rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| ba6ebc9 | Travis: I didn't know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month. Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek. Travis: You are a geek. | funny twins | Rick Riordan | |
| 2841628 | The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It's for their own good. | lying truth protect parents | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 3f05f52 | It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| ecefe27 | What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spirit was preceded by careful preparation. When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its light awakens the concealed beauty in things. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beaut.. | nature reverence patience | John O'Donohue | |
| 8829706 | This is who I am, Rachel . Accept it or not. The tattoos won't wash off. The earrings will never change. I am who I am and nothing more. I'm loyal to a chosen few, I always keep my word and I'll protect you with my life. "I scare the hell out of most people, but you will never have anything to fear from me. Choose. Love me or don't. But tell me now." Because I can't leave my heart open for her to rip out later. If I belong to her, then I d.. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 68df764 | How could he love her when she'd destroyed so much? | Katie McGarry | ||
| a029cec | I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you and I don't know how to make you feel better. I'm in love with you and I shouldn't be. I'm in love with you and once you figure out who I am, you're not going to love me. I'm in love with you and I seem to fuck up the ones who love me back. | love take-me-on west | Katie McGarry | |
| 8bac7a7 | Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine" | romance love julie-garwood | Julie Garwood | |
| e57fc72 | Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything. | Robert Jordan |