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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d88e2b4 | In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III) | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 724b00c | Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of. | illness death | John Green | |
| 9eeb473 | There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| af7626f | The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 2f8f0de | The sea does not like to be restrained. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 70ec247 | If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. | relationships empowerment life subtlety | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| 308979c | You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. | pigsty mess | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| eacea99 | You can be just friends with people, you know," Orla said. "I think it's crazy how you're in love with all those raven boys." Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending.. | Maggie Stiefvater | ||
| 95d8956 | I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life. | life funeral | Markus Zusak | |
| a9993e1 | Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right." | fate questions | Terry Pratchett | |
| fee7eb7 | It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| e58be9e | Then you're aping him. Valentine was one of the most arrogant and disrespectful men I've ever met. I suppose he brought you up to be just like him." "Yes," Jace said, unable to help himself, "I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water supply -- I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the rapin.. | jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7886877 | There is no perfection only life | Milan Kundera | ||
| 357b1a0 | Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds. | James Patterson | ||
| 1f0e22d | You're pining," said Jace. Alec shrugged. "Look who's talking. 'oh I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why--" | malec clace clary jace references | Cassandra Clare | |
| b60e091 | Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 82e0eec | Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." " | poetry sacrifice love | William Shakespeare | |
| 64ce1b7 | Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty. | humour funny stupid | Orson Scott Card | |
| c4275c9 | Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit | life | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 148db4a | Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. | nature haunted house | Emily Dickinson | |
| ab973d3 | I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and fore.. | born letter mountain empty space die soul | Jack Kerouac | |
| 271e2ab | When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. | helpful karma inspirational self-improvement introspection | Confucius | |
| 365bd5a | Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1ca17e6 | It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 862ac4a | But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than either of them had experienced before. Since everything felt right when they were together, everything felt wrong when they weren't. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 04e3525 | But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d48717c | I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 222d0fe | As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you. | humility pride | C.S. Lewis | |
| fbc91c6 | Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 35ebf83 | A sane person to an insane society must appear insane. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| b81c2c9 | How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? | John Green | ||
| 6534973 | Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 393bca1 | Blackjack," Percy said, "this is Piper and Jason. They're friends." The horse nickered. "Uh, maybe later," Percy answered. Piper had heard that Percy could speak to horses, being the son of the horse lord Poseidon, but she'd never seen it in action. "What does Blackjack want?" she asked. "Donuts," Percy said. "Always donuts." | humor donuts flying-horses piper-mclean heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena jason-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| 340ef35 | Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman" | percy | Rick Riordan | |
| 6c89746 | When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. | the-past remembrance | Margaret Atwood | |
| d85c8b3 | If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 4f90409 | Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ba330f6 | It has often been said there's so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. | writing | Dr. Seuss | |
| eba01c6 | It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. | voice | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 126f39d | It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. | women love unavowed-love secret-love sense flattery vulnerability | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 41c5bf3 | We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 1a4f9ff | You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished. | inspirational potential | Neil Gaiman | |
| 07d21e8 | I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. | hiphop music inspirational | Tupac Shakur | |
| 4db0f83 | In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone. | literature trust motivational inspirational human-nature | Sophie Kinsella |