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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 92727b0 | It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it. | sadness | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 2b55e6c | The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts | Avi | ||
| 1bb3e06 | He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once. | romance | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 687ebe4 | But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains! | Bill Watterson | ||
| 4d9a061 | I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 8211541 | A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. | women women-and-men women-s-inspirational | David Mitchell | |
| c271ea7 | Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates. | extend plate | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 03a65b7 | Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 4d36216 | Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before. | Alexander Lloyd | ||
| 281f63d | Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. | Henry Miller | ||
| 7e318cf | Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. | Adam Smith | ||
| 9292bec | Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope which belongs to bright prospects and the morning; but that is not the virtue of hope. The virtue of hope exists only in earthquake and eclipse. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; b.. | christianity | G.K. Chesterton | |
| b08904d | One of my cousins is named Lucifer. I once asked my aunt why and she said, "Because I wanted him to be beautiful and to think for himself." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ccf9ffa | When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 86bc4b4 | The only people who can have normal are the ones unaffected by all the fucked-up shit that happens around them." - Curran" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2f0f638 | What are your qualifications for this job?" she asked. "I'm expendable," I said." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| eaa5753 | On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4050e1d | The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet. | holly lep mud-boys toilet | Eoin Colfer | |
| 8ecac68 | Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7a483a6 | For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2caca0b | Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 69954de | I'm "exceptional"- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of "gifted" and "deprived" (which used to mean "bright" and "retarded") and as soon as "exceptional" begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. "Exceptional" refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional." | people | Daniel Keyes | |
| 3b5cdcb | I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last. | conscience courtship dignity empowerment feminism gender independence integrity love marriage matrimony self-determination social-norms women wooing | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 8f4542b | You are human and fallible. | human | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 2ba2bac | When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex. After I dropped off the hitchhikers," Franz c.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a3688c6 | I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| c9dcb77 | Eldest thinks power is control, that the best way to be a leader is to force everyone into obedience. Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to other so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. This is what I've been.. | Beth Revis | ||
| 7a66f0a | Have you ever noticed that? We base our assessment of the intelligence of others almost entirely on how closely their thinking matches our own. I'm sure that there are people out there who violently disagree with me on most things, and I'm broad-minded enough to conceded that they might possibly not be idiots, but I much prefer the company of people who agree with me. You might want to think about that. | David Eddings | ||
| 8b4b494 | Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 26c261a | The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. | meanings words | Markus Zusak | |
| ed38666 | Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| a275087 | That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 707eb34 | Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad. | crying sadness | Virginia Woolf | |
| 007d196 | Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 6080976 | By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism | David Gemmell | ||
| 2105cc1 | I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 95d8acc | We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 017ea36 | To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They're like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 47f30ac | Fear--who cares? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 061aa06 | I believe that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses, but also by ideas. Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us--albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 219ebcf | Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never even dared to admit that you wanted--an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy and .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2fbe280 | When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| da2e4ad | Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 2548865 | There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you "Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?" - Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent. Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast betwe.. | Irvin D. Yalom |