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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f99bfd8 | I'll begin with the most basic. What are you?" "Pussy Cat Doll?" she asked, immediately doing a slow headshake at his look. "Judge, jury and executioner." He scowled. Her eyes lit up. "Transient! What? Really. No? Babe in Toyland?" | Kresley Cole | ||
| e6a2b0b | Emma turned to him, bottom lip trembling. "For me?" "Always for you. All things for you. He coughed into his fist "All your own." | paranormal romance romantic | Kresley Cole | |
| 7c02b9d | A fucked-up family's a fucked-up family, whether or not werewolves are involved. | werewolves | Carrie Vaughn | |
| 91ce339 | What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart? | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 4cc704f | There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 5f07b7c | He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. | Anne Carson | ||
| 455923d | Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 76fea03 | leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing | Anne Frank | ||
| ab2e7cb | I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes." | mistakes | Louis Sachar | |
| dc07cd6 | Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 485f59e | Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere." | sarcasm sass the-impossible-knife-of-memory | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| b51c8dc | No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can. | moms relationships | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| d99418a | I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it's over, and I'm not going to think about it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1b59b6a | Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. | future kate-atkinson past | Kate Atkinson | |
| b4e8d16 | Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent .. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 8826cf0 | Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 0ba9662 | And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?" "A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| cf6ba2c | Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 76d1e51 | The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did. | ghosts montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 29e25f3 | Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss." | snow | L.M. Montgomery | |
| afcf311 | We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go? | fun | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 61785d6 | Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 523bfb8 | The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to. | life | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 883e98a | Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b50807c | Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of. | love | Enid Blyton | |
| f3f0482 | Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. | bell hooks | ||
| 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 |