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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8de135b | Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 536d522 | Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me. Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think? Sam: I heard raised voices. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak. Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of t.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8d3b6c3 | I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate. . . If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8f526c3 | You're insane!" "I won't argue that point." | insanity | Ray Bradbury | |
| f0fd6c3 | To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime." | David Guterson | ||
| bacd797 | Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business." | our-story madeleine-l-engle walking-on-water | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 8eb6fa3 | He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent. | the-story-of-a-murderer smell principle olfactory preservation virgin preserve virginity scent perfume | Patrick Süskind | |
| c833bb9 | Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2375422 | The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty. | romance | E.M. Forster | |
| eeeff8c | Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 580c1bb | Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly, "did you know that Lucius Malfoy recognized you last time you risked a little jaunt outside? Clever idea, Black, getting yourself seen on a safe station platform. Gave you a cast-iron excuse not to leave your hidey-hole in future, didn't it?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8003133 | Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride." | humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 6e6d91f | The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a7cdb2e | Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood | harry-potter dreamy intelligent luna-lovegood | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7949330 | Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes | harry-potter humor hagrid | J.K. Rowling | |
| dad74c1 | Hogwarts is threatened!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!" | professor-mcgonagall | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2bdb37f | Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide -- except perhaps Hogwarts. | gringotts | J.K. Rowling | |
| adceeec | What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d0c2f0e | When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night im.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 7654975 | And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. | stupidity intelligence truth | Mark Haddon | |
| a2d465e | That's a wonderful story." "He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a699176 | How about we just see where life takes us for awhile? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bd1374d | Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable... | past | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 7734235 | If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3ba2b9c | Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 63d185b | Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing. | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| ba69933 | You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were due at the church in an hour. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d8e2118 | Diesel is back," Ranger said. Yes. How did you know?" I woke up with a migraine this morning." Ranger said." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1e210de | The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage. | Libba Bray | ||
| c8a51a4 | Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir. | Libba Bray | ||
| 6edcbdc | Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching. | Libba Bray | ||
| 7f2ae53 | I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time. | rescue | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 32b76d2 | He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| db1e933 | The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c3d1653 | Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 644c0d1 | Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f5f84b5 | I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations. | travel | Bill Bryson | |
| 10072e0 | Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. | Michael Chabon | ||
| f590189 | Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses! | Michael Chabon | ||
| 4e1fe2a | This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 68ca5c8 | Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5941c16 | Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem. | personality love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 93b0095 | Love can only be found through the act of loving. | love loving | Paulo Coelho | |
| 877ded0 | Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love-because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world. | prayer world heart life love courageous done pure lord weakness will children | Paulo Coelho |