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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1bed2f9 | That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ad44014 | The girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0e34d6b | History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0ff1206 | He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| e59c30e | In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 46e4f18 | I've been the oldest child since before you were born | siblings wisdom | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| a25c9e3 | My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother. | mother parent parenting | Michael Chabon | |
| d5654d3 | God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life. | Max Lucado | ||
| 0400422 | The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114) | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fc92ea3 | When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6d638cc | If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 271d52c | ndm nltq~ 'Hdhm wnq` f~ Grmh , nsh`r n lkwn klh yTw`n f~ hdh ltjh . hdh m Hdth l~ lywm `nd mGyb lshms . lkn dh Hdth khll mn , fn kl shy' `ndy'dh ytlshy' wykhtf~ ! Tywr mlk lHzyn wlmwsyq~ lSdH@ f~ lb`yd wT`m shftyh . tr~ , kyf ymkn lljml ldh~ kn HDra bqw@ n ykhtf~ bhdhh lsr`@ wytlshy' ? | حب | Paulo Coelho | |
| c5a57b4 | Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c498a26 | The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers. | politics | Ann Coulter | |
| ef8977b | Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first time, in so doing, enters an artificial and complicated world; to know the laws and rules of this world completely and to practice them perfectly, no single human life is long enough. Without words, without w.. | history literature reading words | Hermann Hesse | |
| 39ac3b6 | Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen. | east hesse west | Hermann Hesse | |
| 47c335a | I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? | glory home stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f395d28 | I didn't. My mother gave it to me as a keepsake, then took it back when I reached maturity--and gave it to the Weaver for safekeeping." "Why?" "So I wouldn't waste it." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 48f972a | And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish. | acomaf hope inspirational night sarah-j-maas stargazing stars wish wishes | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d5602b8 | More--I wanted the hardness of his body crushing against mine; I wanted his mouth and teeth and tongue on my bare skin, on my breasts, between my legs. Everywhere--I wanted him everywhere. I was drowning in that need. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9db4670 | She knew the gold in her eyes had shifted to flame, because when she looked to Maeve, the queen's face had gone bone-white. And then Celaena set the world on fire. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| efc42a4 | He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king. | kings manhood prince princes woman woman-and-man women women-and-men | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 992c38d | Aelin was a warrior, able to fight with blade or magic. And she was done with hiding. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8d23667 | To four years until freedom," she said lifting her glass. He raised his in salute. "To you, Celaena." Their eyes met, and Chaol didn't hide his smile as she grinned at him. Perhaps four years with her might not be enough." | four-years future sweet throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 642d291 | Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant. | Miranda July | ||
| 48c2143 | Mind the dead man, my dear. | Rachel Caine | ||
| f3e47b2 | I'm insane, not forgetful. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 13004e9 | Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first part of that reassured her. The second part... not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actuall.. | funny ghost-town humor morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 448034d | Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read. | David Sedaris | ||
| c1cc7dc | Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness? | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 8a53700 | The world is full of places to which I want to return | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| b7ea944 | The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d8f5a94 | If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0936a27 | There are people like Senhor Jose everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, clocks, sport shirts, autographs, stones, clay figurines, empty beverage cans, little angels, cacti, opera programmes, lighters, pens, owls, music boxes, bottles, bonsai trees, paintings, mugs, pipes, glass obelisks, ceramic ducks, old toys, carnival masks, .. | collecting death hobbies order | José Saramago | |
| 21e309a | A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. | wager | Jules Verne | |
| 1393eea | Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 48f2906 | One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin. | richard-bach | Richard Bach | |
| 334fbcb | How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble. | Richard Bach | ||
| 333cdd1 | There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. | Richard Bach | ||
| 91e15e7 | Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot R.. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 0dc4f77 | Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 47e616d | Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds. | anger communicate communication compromise divorce heartbreak loss love marriage marriage-advice newlyweds | Gillian Flynn | |
| 6746bc1 | The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after," | Lois Lowry | ||
| 5b757ec | Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else. | Paul Auster |