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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 28db0ed | I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 0ac0119 | When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 2c8b53a | What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? | equality feminism beauty body-image sexual-violence cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| acc3482 | Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The e.. | equality feminism beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery diet-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing society culture double-standards magazines sexuality self-esteem | Naomi Wolf | |
| 62c9ead | Win told me that one isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb. | lisa-kleypas | Lisa Kleypas | |
| a87615c | Would you say that you're a good man, Harry?" He had to think about that. "No," he finally said. "In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would probably treat you far better than the prince would have." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 09486eb | The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 1c626e9 | There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait. | Susan Minot | ||
| 093eb7a | It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| a963dee | First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem. We accept all of nature, without any repudiation. We believe there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris. We think pain is good because it is the most profound of all human feelings. We think sex is beautiful even when portrayed by a harlot and a pimp. We put character above ugliness, pai.. | Irving Stone | ||
| babc05d | they're fucking up minds they do not own. | jim carroll | ||
| 6842c0b | Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen. | scots julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| e618921 | Tell me something wicked. | Julia Quinn | ||
| d083fa6 | If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone? | Julia Quinn | ||
| eb20c37 | This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips? | Alan Moore | ||
| f1f73c5 | With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous | Alan Moore | ||
| 28e77f6 | Good evening, London. I would introduce myself, but truth to tell, I do not have a name. You can call me "V". Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse. In anarchy, there is another way. With an.. | Alan Moore | ||
| 21dfa9d | There is a German word, , which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone. | sehnsucht longing | Julian Barnes | |
| ab469f6 | All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 256aace | Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love. | tyrion-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| 8eb3e08 | All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 688819b | Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle. | ser-alliser george-r-r-martin jon-snow a-song-of-ice-and-fire bold ghost | George R.R. Martin | |
| 177d7ba | Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 94b1d9b | Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're do.. | finishing reading-books resonance | Jonathan Carroll | |
| 3ff3846 | Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. | Sun Tzu | ||
| f7fa717 | There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. | war general fault reckless temper lead worry danger cowardice shame trouble destruction homer | Sun Tzu | |
| 2cb74fd | Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go. | sacrifice love truth | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 5f47215 | There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth. | lying truth | Stephen King | |
| 83b98e9 | Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work. Every time my alarm goes off at 5 AM and I don't want to get up, or I would rather sit down after work and play a videogame, I think about those guys. Take care of your family. They need you and love .. | writing | Bernard Schaffer | |
| 959f4f3 | What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett." | Agatha Christie | ||
| fdb8065 | Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 887e8bc | Keep a guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlet, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness. Receive, coldly and dispassionately, every attention, till you have ascertained and duly considered the worth of the aspirant; and let your affections be consequent upon approbation alone. First study; then approve; then love. Let your eyes be blind to all external attractions, your ears deaf to.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 59fd023 | I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 91fd80c | Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4187ce1 | People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 960f5a6 | The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 61c7d78 | Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness? | love safety | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 86345cd | Now I remember why I hate eating sheep. Horrible, fluffy things that give me hair balls and indigestion. ( Saphira from the Eragon Series) | Christopher Paolini | ||
| a078eda | The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. | future wisdom worrying worries | Christopher Paolini | |
| 370b30b | Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunari... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 3218e73 | Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 5d89b4d | The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics. | music | Rob Sheffield | |
| 1ed1aa8 | Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 6e0a8c2 | Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose." | touch-of-power flea maria-v-snyder | Maria V. Snyder |