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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| cb21c1d | At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, a.. | realization | David James Duncan | |
| 68a609a | You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c056522 | Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 695a185 | The stuff you bring back from dreams is free. | graphic-novels | Neil Gaiman | |
| d23fae3 | What's your name, lad?" "Newton. Newton Pulsifer." "LUCIFER? What's that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?" "That's Pulsifer," explained Newton. "With a P. I don't know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey." The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed... | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a4afeb6 | Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 034de0a | It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| b8d069f | He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what. | William Goldman | ||
| c338c6c | A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 98f39b7 | You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes. | John Green | ||
| de4c0f0 | Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards. | Alain de Botton | ||
| b6ba0d9 | You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 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-s-inspirational women-and-men | 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 | ||
| 8a8862f | only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred | Beth Moore | ||
| 0509813 | Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. | murder fear friendship | Umberto Eco | |
| 43294f6 | He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs. | Miranda July | ||
| 11fb9c9 | Okay, listen up, people," Kieran raised his voice so that it was all gravelly and impressive. I wasn't particularly impressed since we'd grown up together and I'd force-fed him mud pies when we were little, but it seemed to work on everyone else. Lia actually sighed. Only a thirteen-year-old vampire hunter would get a crush in the middle of a vampire attack. I was a little bit proud of her actually. ---------------------- His grin widened a.. | kieran quinn | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 492a23c | Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. | separateness | Esther Perel | |
| e5dc91b | Of course, we could all die soon. I'm writing because Michael's patrolling the house and Shane and Claire are asleep. It may be the last chance I have to write anything down. So in case that's true, I want to say that I love Shane and Claire, and I Michael, and staying here in the Glass House has been the best time in my entire life.... But if it all ends here, at least it's ending with the people I really love. | Rachel Caine |