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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba0f7a3 | Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. | Robin McKinley | ||
| a5d5cd4 | I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. | grief heartbreak loss sorrow | Robin McKinley | |
| 1808c64 | I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can't believe I'm here without her."- on losing her best friend" | loss | Nora Ephron | |
| 48d958d | Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 9b12e30 | Conceited people never hear anything but praise. | hear people praise | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| c6706d7 | If you tell me to leave, I'll turn and walk away. I swear that, Ivy, but I had to try one more time. I'm not going to possibly go to my grave without trying. Please. Don't let me go. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6582e3d | To love is not weak. Love is the strongest thing there is. | love | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 03215d5 | She's not going anywhere anytime soon. Dawson knocked her into next week, I think. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 84f9e6c | I...can't believe you have kittens." I wiggled my fingers and the little guy strained to reach them. "What're their names?" Roth snorted. "That one is Fury. The white one is Nitro and the black one is named Thor." "What? You called these cuties something like that, but named a giant snake Bambi?" He bent forward, placing a kiss on my shoulder. It was so fast I wasn't sure he'd actually done it. "There's sweetness in evil," he said. "And rem.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c56565f | He hasn't even eaten at Olive Garden, so I doubt he's a connoisseur of hotels." - Kat "No Olive Garden? Man, we've got to get that boy some endless breadsticks and salad. Travesty." - Daemon" | daemon-black katy-swartz lux lux-series origin | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 7afdc38 | An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 89b2a2a | My favorite son!" Gaea cried. "You are awesome! I knew I could count on you, uh... which one are you again?" -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2841628 | The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It's for their own good. | lying parents protect truth | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 3f05f52 | It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| ecefe27 | What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spirit was preceded by careful preparation. When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its light awakens the concealed beauty in things. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beaut.. | nature patience reverence | John O'Donohue | |
| 8829706 | This is who I am, Rachel . Accept it or not. The tattoos won't wash off. The earrings will never change. I am who I am and nothing more. I'm loyal to a chosen few, I always keep my word and I'll protect you with my life. "I scare the hell out of most people, but you will never have anything to fear from me. Choose. Love me or don't. But tell me now." Because I can't leave my heart open for her to rip out later. If I belong to her, then I d.. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 68df764 | How could he love her when she'd destroyed so much? | Katie McGarry | ||
| a029cec | I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you and I don't know how to make you feel better. I'm in love with you and I shouldn't be. I'm in love with you and once you figure out who I am, you're not going to love me. I'm in love with you and I seem to fuck up the ones who love me back. | love take-me-on west | Katie McGarry | |
| 8bac7a7 | Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine" | julie-garwood love romance | Julie Garwood | |
| e57fc72 | Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 0b3e046 | Some men [...] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 7244d1f | The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 843f32c | A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future. | national-security science | Barack Obama | |
| 1f0b708 | Once the quietness arrived, it stayed and spread in Estha. It reached out of his head and enfolded him in its swampy arms. It rocked him to the rhythm of an ancient, fetal heartbeat. It sent its stealthy, suckered tentacles inching along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory; dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue. It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left .. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 8930de8 | By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 53fbdc7 | How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. | D. H. Lawrence | ||
| bc004e8 | I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . . | semiotics | Italo Calvino | |
| e55a6c8 | I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| d977dd2 | It's easy to close, but almost impossible to close. Think about friends. Think about hobbies. Even ideas. They're close to us--sometimes so close we think they are part of us--and then, at some point, they aren't close anymore. They go away. Only one thing can keep something close over time: holding it there. Grappling with it. Wrestling it to the ground, as Jacob did with the angel, and refusing to let go. What we don't wrestle we let .. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a62f2d7 | She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 3a6e5b3 | it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little. | Franz Kafka | ||
| cca77d8 | That is when I understood the magical meaning of the circle. If you go away from a row, you can still come back into it. A row is an open formation. But a circle closes up, and if you go away from it, there is no way back. It is not by chance that the planets move in circles and that a rock coming loose from one of them goes inexorably away, carried off by centrifugal force. Like a meteorite broken off from a planet, I left the circle and h.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 4c687fc | No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2bc51c4 | I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d3efb8e | So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a40e471 | He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| acf91c4 | Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow. Karl Jung said this about 'the Shadow' in one of his books: 'It is as evil as we are positive... the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 96986e0 | Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. | future life perfection starting work | Haruki Murakami | |
| 8d064e6 | In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 178c3f1 | Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive. | life philosophy | Murakami Haruki | |
| ccce3b2 | Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4ace99c | The heart apparently doesn't stop that easily. | heart stop | Haruki Murakami | |
| e6734b5 | But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 461d799 | Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the .. | Fritjof Capra |