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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aa593fd | If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8806375 | Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. | wagging-tongues rumor public-opinion libel reputation slander gossip | William Shakespeare | |
| 1b827d7 | Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. | death wisdom maturity | William Shakespeare | |
| 6b9db1c | Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)" | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8b17d26 | We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 922e8cc | If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 32be300 | When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt. | pain women hurt voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 7d9a4ba | Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say." -- | Lewis Carroll | ||
| fab6c3a | I close his fingers around the gift. "I threw away your bottle cap, because it killed me to look at. But I never could throw away this. I've been waiting to give it to you for two and a half years." "I don't know what to say," he whispers. "I'm almost full," I say. "Thank you for waiting for me, too." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| be215d2 | You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 2906dfe | St. Clair: So did you enjoy the book? Anna: I did. Did you? St. Clair: I like the author's name the best. Ba-nah-na. | anna-olimphant etienne-st-clair stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| fee8ab4 | Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat--like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese. | James Patterson | ||
| 0f79a17 | If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, "She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness," you would be right. But I bet you didn't guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus." | James Patterson | ||
| c2704b8 | Beware the anger of a patient man. | James Patterson | ||
| 1eb2ca8 | So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be. | self-confidence | Garth Nix | |
| 5266090 | If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed- | learning fear name | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 3db6df7 | Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 4323888 | I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees. | Tom Robbins | ||
| f5eb9ac | It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. | Harry G. Frankfurt | ||
| e288cdb | When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, "Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I'm going in again"--my gut reaction is, "What a badass." | Brené Brown | ||
| 7d75fc7 | Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ff14630 | Marriage is compromise and hard work,and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 47e616d | Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds. | marriage loss heartbreak love communicate newlyweds marriage-advice divorce compromise anger communication | Gillian Flynn | |
| 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 | ||
| c303ed3 | His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink. | William Golding | ||
| c88d80b | I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined. | Alice Sebold | ||
| f919352 | There's no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 7c48346 | There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d7208e4 | I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him. | loneliness | John Steinbeck | |
| b0b8ea7 | The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size. | ownership capitalism | John Steinbeck | |
| 02a6cdb | What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster. | sex monster sexuality | John Steinbeck | |
| 7c3ffde | But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win | John Steinbeck | ||
| 753cca0 | I've lived my life again just telling it to you. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7d7502c | Are you always so forthright over coffee dates?" "I don't know. You're the only one I ever had a crush on." Oh, boy. "And that was stupid." Flustered again, he raked his fingers through his hair. "Now I've scared you. That sounds scary and obsessive. Like I have an alter somewhere with your pictures over it, where I light candles and chant your name. Jesus! That's even scarier. Run now. I won't hold it against you." She burst out laughing.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a5e27c3 | It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing. | robert-langdon | Dan Brown | |
| 02cdc85 | When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out. | Dan Brown | ||
| f39bd30 | Act first, explain later. | random | Dan Brown | |
| 5002c71 | Love ... I put so much faith in it. Truth ... I kept believing it falls always from the lips of the one you love and trust the most. Faith ... it's all bound up to love and trust. Where does one end and the other start, and how do you tell when love is the blindest of all? | V.C. Andrews | ||
| f7e340d | Nothing fires the warrior's heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one's own bowels or guts but from one's discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplis.. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| a006778 | We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7e70d4d | Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 24212ae | INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of. GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds. INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| c3c2e19 | Knowing where the trap is--that's the first step in evading it. | evasion trap | Frank Herbert | |
| 9dd8833 | Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. "I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell me, years ago, about being intelligent," she said. The Constable brightened all at once. "Pleased to hear it." The Vickys have an elaborate code of morals and conduct. It grew out of the moral squalor of an earlier generation, just as the original.. | rebellion religion | Neal Stephenson |