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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7561618 | You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never enough of you all together in one place, so t here wouldn't be anything left that would think of itself as an 'I.' No point of view any longer, because you'd be an infinite sequence of views and of points... | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9caff05 | The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire. He gets into intimate relations with them to study them, to strip the mask of convention from them, to surprise their inmost secrets, knowing that they have the power to rouse his deepest creative energies, to rescue him from his cold reason, .. | hubris love | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 7a0c14f | It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. | eternity obey | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| 5f5ec1b | A man said to a Dervish: "Why do I not see you more often?" The Dervish replied, "Because the words 'Why have you not been to see me?' are sweeter to my ear than the words 'Why have you come again?" | Robert Greene | ||
| 9c1ba5d | Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert. It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies. | Robert Greene | ||
| e7b4a58 | The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one . | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2903d1d | ktb `lyn 'n n`ysh lhmwm wntjr` l'Hzn wnkZm lGyZ 'w nzfrh smr wnkt wnwdr hzly@ | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 534e640 | I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 713480c | But his kind will always lose in the end. I know this, and now I know why. Whether it's wife or nation they occupy, their mistake is the same: they stand still, and their stake moves underneath them.... Chains rattle, rivers roll, animals startle and bolt, forests inspire and expand, babies stretch open-mouthed from the womb, new seedlings arch their necks and creep forward into the light. Even a language won't stand still. A territory is o.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1b00f4d | Nothing stands still, except in our memory. | time | Philippa Pearce | |
| 35393a2 | Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions...as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 58ebb85 | Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 8a1edb0 | You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim" | life parenting | Jeannette Walls | |
| b60a97d | For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever and ever ... so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 580827f | a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life. | life writing | Tobias Wolff | |
| 0cd4fde | Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. | Alice Walker | ||
| 2e19a9c | Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything. God loves admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. | Alice Walker | ||
| dcb2c2e | The Soul selects her own Society. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| c9ab223 | Wild Nights - Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile - the winds - To a heart in port - Done with the compass - Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden - Ah, the sea! Might I moor - Tonight - In thee! | poetry | Emily Dickinson | |
| b6d90da | What is love?" "I don't know." "Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Fusun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit houses, gardens, or rooms; or whenever he watches her sitting in tea gardens and restaurants, and at dinner tables." "Hmmm ... that's a lovely answer,~ But isn't love what you feel when you can't see me?" "Under those circumstances, it becomes a terrible obsession, an illness." | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| f567eea | That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds | earth life nature revelations | Orson Scott Card | |
| ec2adae | People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| f7ab9d2 | Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect! | Gore Vidal | ||
| 8f03240 | This was a few weeks ago," Annabeth said. "Percy told me a crazy story about meeting a boy our near Moriches Bay. Apparently this kid used hieroglyphs to cast spells. He helped Percy battle a crocodile monsters." "The Sob of Sobek!" Sadie blurted. "But my battled that monster. He didn't say anything about-" "Is your brother's name Carter?" Annabeth asked. An angry golden aura flickered around Sadie's head-a halo of hieroglyphs that resemb.. | carter-kane heroes-of-olympus humor percy-jackson sadie-kane the-kane-chronicles the-son-of-sobek the-staff-of-serapis | Rick Riordan | |
| 6a4702a | Showers are good. Perhaps not as good as bacon, but good. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 766e337 | Cacus." I'd had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8c59bcd | Okay. I'll admit, I slept or doodled through most of my classes. I have no idea who you're talking about. | covenant-series jennifer-l-armentrout sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 46410b5 | I seriously love these socks." "Give me back my foot," I ordered. "It's not so much the fact that they've got reindeers on them or that they go all the way up to your knees." As if that were some kind of great distance. "But it's the fact that they're like mittens on your feet." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2a89e56 | Sporks are only used in the most dire situations. | katy life-saving sporks | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 66435dd | Hades will be here in twenty minutes," Apollo announced from somewhere way too close to the bed. "Either speed this up or pick it up later, kids." "Oh my gods," I whispered, horrified. "Oh, and I hope you two are being responsible," Apollo added. And then he was gone. There was a muffled, hoarse shout from a room nearby. "Damn him," Aiden muttered, dropping his head onto my shoulder. He shuddered. "Damn him to the Underworld and back again.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| db6b817 | This speech wasn't forever. Being embarrassed as not forever. None of this was forever. But trying was. Living was. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a20f896 | I stared at him in disbelief and sputtered, "You can't - Get off!" One single brown arched up. "I can't get off? Oh, I most definitely can get of." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2f0b043 | Tomorrow or next week wasn't guaranteed. Not that it ever was, but for us, things really weren't looking in our favor. There really was only one now, and I wanted to seize the moment and live in it. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ba6671a | I want you so badly it's like a hunger that gnaws at me endlessly. It doesn't go away ... You have no fucking clue." "Then do something about it," I whispered." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 82580ae | That's what you taught me - we don't have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it. | Darren Shan | ||
| cfe1097 | Meg turned and gazed out the rear windshield, probably checking for any shiny blobs pursuing us. "At least we're not being--" "Don't say it," Percy warned. Meg huffed. "You don't know what I was going to--" "You were going to say, 'At least we're not being followed,'" Percy said. "That'll jinx us. Immediately we'll notice that we are being followed. Then we'll end up in a big battle that totals my family car and probably destroys the whole .. | jinx meg-mccaffrey percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 2edcbab | Let's see, today is Thor's Day the sixteenth." "You mean Thursday?" "That's what I said. The island will rise on the full moon six days from now, on the twenty-second, which is Woden's Day." "Wednesday?" I asked. "That's what I said." -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 91d7462 | the best people have the rottenest luck | Rick Riordan | ||
| 024111e | As for her charmspeak, she'd gotten so powerful it made Leo nervous. If she told him to eat his vegetables, he might actually do it. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b81a3ed | He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea. | poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| 57227a6 | Annabeth shook her head. "All these years sneaking around, and we could've just been ourselves?" "You should do that." Alex strolled alongside, back in human form, though he still had a few flamingo feathers stuck in his hair. "And you have to flaunt the weird, my friends." "I'm going to quote you on that," Percy said. "You'd better." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 478309e | Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper? | Rick Riordan | ||
| aa55014 | Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world. | house-of-hades percy-jackson romance | Rick Riordan | |
| 1376ea6 | Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water." | Rick Riordan |