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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 775de4d | Have you been playing in toxic waste lately? | James Patterson | ||
| 07703e8 | Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it. | James Patterson | ||
| d953997 | Words were so puzzling. should mean a present just as should mean to stick tacks in people. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 81f7681 | She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it. | fifteen me | Beverly Cleary | |
| d0e56f2 | Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise | Maya Angelou | ||
| ae8e80e | He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death. | lies life truth | George R.R. Martin | |
| c1eb7b7 | In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that? | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 0441470 | I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 23f4a66 | Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| d73c189 | Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are. Choosing authenticity means cultivating the courage to be imperfect, to set boundaries, and to allow ourselves to be vulnerable; exercising the compassion that comes from knowing that we are all made of strength and struggle; and nurturing the connection and sense of belonging that can only happen when we believe that we are enoug.. | Brené Brown | ||
| aa66237 | Only when we're brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. | Brené Brown | ||
| 43d72c4 | Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| cfdc3bb | And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be , I find offensive. | feminism sexual-discrimination offense | Gillian Flynn | |
| 74c7bb6 | He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ab9308f | We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living. | Joan Didion | ||
| 6984012 | One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing." | Joan Didion | ||
| 6217ca6 | I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. | human-spirit | Ayn Rand | |
| ef12465 | Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose, but only his own virtue can achieve it...Life is the reward of virtue- and happiness is the goal and the reward of life. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy- a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for .. | philosophical philosophy objectivism | Ayn Rand | |
| 28ef81c | John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains--and he withdrew his fire--until the day when men withdraw their vultures. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0b17b97 | Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge." | ethics moral | Ayn Rand | |
| 733cd7f | It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a sea of unremarkable men and women, anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabetized things, a million forgotten hours. | poetry | Billy Collins | |
| 122db7f | For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e3bfd7c | I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling a.. | story good john-steinbeck evil | John Steinbeck | |
| fb670d7 | The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect." | Gary Chapman | ||
| 18ca08a | And when I fall in love," I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes." | lover reality dreams love heads grounded clouds realist dreamers grass firm fall-in-love ideals purple illusions mountain worlds idealists sky dreaming feet | V.C. Andrews | |
| 70ec402 | T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs. | stubbornness values | Jared Diamond | |
| e013291 | I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything. I miss knowing she was around, because it helped me to know that she was around, someone like her existed. I guess most of all, I miss knowing I would see her ag.. | James Frey | ||
| 12d34c5 | Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it. | James Frey | ||
| 27bb8cc | Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp." | Steven Pressfield | ||
| c93da76 | When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not bei.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ab1ef4f | And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 9b92b53 | Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. | Charles Dickens | ||
| f6b48d0 | Face your fears or they will climb over your back. | fear | Frank Herbert | |
| 05b5303 | But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5df0ab6 | It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling .. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 7806e14 | There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. | perfection | Michael Cunningham | |
| 1b0440e | We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time. | suicide pretend-happiness the-virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| bd63598 | If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. | teenager | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 9cfafbc | Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past. | Truman Capote | ||
| b601659 | A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. | Truman Capote | ||
| d0cca0e | Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. | marvin hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
| e41e7c5 | It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane. | humor wonko-the-sane h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy logic | Douglas Adams | |
| a6b089e | Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy. Hope your diodes rot. Thank you. Have a nice day. Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you... Zark off. ...and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. | humor random | Douglas Adams | |
| a3d4cea | Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole. | J.R.R. Tolkien |