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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 28a707b | Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but t.. | grief | William Shakespeare | |
| 5e746b2 | Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities . . . to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times"--my voice grows quiet--"that we've missed our chance." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d234f4d | He snuffles. Oh, no. He's not going to cry, is he? Because even though it's sweet when guys cry, I am so not prepared for this. Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys. | crying drunk girl-scuts humor | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 90b0344 | And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 55e29e9 | Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? ... I haven't done so enough before--and now I'm too old; too old at any rate for what I see. ... What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that. ... Still, we have the illusion of freedom; therefore don't be, like me, without the memory of that illusion. I was either, a.. | Henry James | ||
| ba93c4c | Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branche.. | seasonal winter | Mark Helprin | |
| 5a1d5d5 | He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 3667d4a | I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| d338acc | Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy." | iggy maxocracy | James Patterson | |
| 90af673 | Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wraped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. "ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper." | James Patterson | ||
| e694c62 | The thing is, Maximum, I love you. I can't help but be focused on you when we're together. If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together, the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray. | James Patterson | ||
| 5afb27c | You're a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers! -Fang | James Patterson | ||
| e5f6d6d | In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting. | Maya Angelou | ||
| b0cabe2 | The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures. | fear fortune omen | Garth Nix | |
| 9cc6b2c | He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| 58f8379 | I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like tryi.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 7933b74 | I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus .. | William Goldman | ||
| 208e3ac | He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince. | William Goldman | ||
| 2d9331c | Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| e362a9d | She closed Dan's door and walked down the hall to her room. He makes a good boyfriend, she repeated to herself. What the hell was that suppose to mean? She didn't just want a good boyfriend. She wanted that thing Gustav Klimt had captured so perfectly in The Kiss. That radiant, electric, hold-me-tight-so-I don't-fall-from-up-here-in-the-sky feeling of being in love. Well, don't we all, sweetie? | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 337ec16 | He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon. | Jess Walter | ||
| cdda3cf | I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to. | Harper Lee | ||
| 6db293b | Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book "The Origin Of Species" he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizi.. | Dale Carnegie | ||
| 69b9ea1 | In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society. | government | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| bfb9eed | Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I'm not. I'm something else and I don't know what. | Harper Lee | ||
| 2461913 | Children of the future age Reading this indignant page | William Blake | ||
| 424d281 | it has crossed my mind that the key to happiness should not be found in a man. That an independent, strong woman should feel fulfilled and whole on her own. Those things might be true. And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 2835e81 | God is Great Beer is Good and People are Crazy | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 74a33b8 | I promise to always turn back toward you. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 6d7629f | Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive | Walter Scott | ||
| 1570beb | it's not just the person who fills a house, it's their I'll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses. | lonely lonely-people missing missing-someone missing-you | David Mitchell | |
| 6fd8515 | She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 441a494 | Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 6f86bd6 | Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts. | thoughts wept | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 5f0cf72 | There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty. | belief limitations | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 2dcccc0 | The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. | happiness politics | Dan Savage | |
| c74d4c1 | The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk. | understanding wisdom | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| fa8e730 | Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works | inspirational life love | Danielle Steel | |
| 09048e6 | For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. | Henry Miller | ||
| ab70c5a | This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. | Henry Miller | ||
| eb47ec2 | Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died." | Philip Pullman | ||
| ab82a9e | This is what'll happen," she said, "and it's true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you've seen people dying, you know what that looks like. But your daemons en't just nothing now; they're part of everything. All the atoms that were them, they've gone into the air and the wind and the trees and the earth and all the living things. They'll .. | his-dark-materials pullman | Philip Pullman | |
| 590ef33 | Can you turn so you're not pressed against me?" "I could," he said, his voice amused. "But then you would have to lie on top of me." My brain said, "NO." My body went, "Wheee!" | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 55294bf | If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out?" "Will you promise to call me Your Majesty?" "Hell no." "Then I'll have to think about it." | kate-daniels kate-to-curran | Ilona Andrews |