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aa419dc What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror. Paulo Coelho
9e1f9f7 The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossibl.. Paulo Coelho
3957452 I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm. enthusiasm tears childhood Paulo Coelho
79e0903 At that moment it seemed to him that time stood still and the soul of the world surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke. The language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that e.. Paulo Coelho
20489ee If a body catch a body coming through the rye. J.D. Salinger
723b736 Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God. J.D. Salinger
8ef36f2 People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not. J.D. Salinger
810cd9e Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies J.D. Salinger
2a5a8b2 I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we? Bret Easton Ellis
7c78f23 All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person. Hermann Hesse
8b125b6 If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?" Joseph Knect said to his.. religion truth Hermann Hesse
937c25f He stalked closer, his movements feline, those violet eyes turning subdued-lethal. "You're welcome, you know." "For saving you when asked." I stiffened. " I didn't ask for anything." sarah-j-maas rhysand feyre new-adult-romance rescue Sarah J. Maas
6de72c3 Someone fish out dear Amren before she catches a cold. Sarah J. Maas
69a36a0 Rain continued beating against the hall windows, a distant reminder that there was still a world around them. Sarah J. Maas
ac6defd Aelin met Rowan's stare and said clearly and baldly and without a speckle of doubt, "I love you. I am in love with you, Rowan. I have been for a while. And I know there are limits to what you can give me, and I know you might need time--" His lips crushed into hers, and he said onto her mouth, dropping words more precious than rubies and emeralds and sapphires into her heart, her soul, "I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to yo.. Sarah J. Maas
9a6d191 Your soldiers look like they have seen better days." "Oh, they always look like that. I've tried and tries to get them to focus on outside appearances as much as improving their inner beauty, but... you know how men are." ansel Sarah J. Maas
c51b401 I want a husband to warm my bed, and my bed alone. marriage throne-of-glass husband Sarah J. Maas
055d23d Tell Aelin Galathynius that Wendlyn has never forgotten Evalin Ashryver," Galan said to him, to Aedion. "Or Terrasen." pg682 rowan-whitethorn Sarah J. Maas
51434ea I love you," he breathed against her mouth. "And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Where you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever." love sam-cortland Sarah J. Maas
f0b99b5 He did--does love me, Rhysand." "The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be a poison." Sarah J. Maas
6a05821 I will not be afraid. Sarah J. Maas
f22cfb8 You know I'm always happy to tangle in the sheets with you, Amren, Sarah J. Maas
1949c19 there was a thing waiting in the darkness, and he could not bring himself to fight it for much longer. throne-of-glass queen-of-shadows Sarah J. Maas
ab52c3a Thus I became Rhysand's plaything, the harlot of Amarantha's whore. rhysand feyre rhys Sarah J. Maas
2356e80 We are the Thirteen," she said. "From now until the Darkness claims us." Sarah J. Maas
40708dd Why are you crying?" he asked, trying to push her back far enough to read her face again. But she held on to him, so fiercely she could feel the weapons beneath his clothes. It would all be fine, even if it went to hell, so long as he was here with her. "I'm crying," she sniffled, "because you smell so rutting bad my eyes are watering." Sarah J. Maas
9ef1011 This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late. R. Scott Bakker
65447a4 even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see. Roger Zelazny
3d13f8e When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. Roger Zelazny
2650662 Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time. sleep sanity time inspirational rest memory Roger Zelazny
595236f Nawat grinned. "I was helping to steal soldiers who couldn't keep up." "What do you do with them?" she asked, curious. "I haven't heard of bodies being found." "Nor will you," Nawat informed her, sitting on a corner of the worktable. "They were still alive when we gave them to my warriors at the edge of the jungle." He picked up Aly's hand and laced his fingers with hers. "My warriors will be able to say they last saw the missing soldiers .. Tamora Pierce
c02d5dd Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way. Terry Pratchett
83dbef6 You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. Terry Pratchett
870b982 It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus. war casualties tactics military strategy Terry Pratchett
3fa3443 If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands. Terry Pratchett
545dfdc IT WASN'T A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. It should have been, but that's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime. Terry Pratchett
de9d462 The city's full of people who you just see around. cities strangers Terry Pratchett
6f5e1ba I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?" humanity monsters Terry Pratchett
ab759fb You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out. There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended. 'In the circumstances, Sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher--' 'Well, yes, we could,' said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of papers in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did... freedom truth hard-boiled-egg justice revolution realism Terry Pratchett
1c22fc5 Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You can let that rule your whole life or you can put it behind you and move on. Only a madman lets jealousy determine the course of his existence. Only a weak man blames others for his own errors. liadan Juliet Marillier
2044865 They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. Donna Tartt
c7ade7f A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp. Naomi Novik
b2b6609 I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep. Gregory David Roberts
f20a56d My advice." She pressed her fingers to her chest. "But didn't you recently say that I was a 'mad creature' who was 'soft in the head'? Sniff, sniff, Rydstrom. Sniff, sniff. I was so crushed that I ate a gallon of Ben & Jerry's, except I didn't because Valkyrie don't eat." Kresley Cole