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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1c49884 | I painted stars and the moon and clouds and just endless, dark sky." I finished the sixth, and was well on my way sawing through the seventh before I said, "I never knew why. I rarely went outside at night--usually, I was so tired from hunting that I just wanted to sleep. But I wonder ... " I pulled out the seventh and final arrow. "I wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of things, or.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 378718a | Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope | heartbreak hope | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 0fc397c | And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b6d072a | We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. | love turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| 1212dd4 | Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. | mental-illness | John Green | |
| 9b1a3e9 | How would your life be different if...You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day...You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others | motivational life inspirational opinions self-love self-empowerment choices self-esteem | Steve Maraboli | |
| a56dea6 | As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. | men women | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| c709555 | For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-ey.. | human derivative secondhand-experience seen-it-all real personality-traits | Gillian Flynn | |
| 9cadb74 | behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f40073d | A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. | wilde oscar | Oscar Wilde | |
| eb2b9f4 | Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| af2f30b | Good organization," said Magnus. "I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family." | city-of-fallen-angels magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| e1a06b6 | Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 10072b0 | Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner." | John Green | ||
| 4b85f0f | Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, all.. | hate humanism human humanity inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring inspirational anger forgiveness water | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 2de24aa | Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. | inspirational | ANAIS NIN | |
| f5951cf | You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 65648b5 | I will love you with no regard to the actions of our enemies or the jealousies of actors. I will love you with no regard to the outrage of certain parents or the boredom of certain friends. I will love you no matter what is served in the world's cafeterias or what game is played at each and every recess. I will love you no matter how many fire drills we are all forced to endure, and no matter what is drawn upon the blackboard in blurry, bor.. | Lemony Snicket | ||
| 8fab059 | Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway. | bravery inspirational | Meg Cabot | |
| 30e86cb | Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive | fate valentine | Cassandra Clare | |
| b3fc8a2 | Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. me, liked me." " you, liked you?" Magnus buried his grin in the cat's fur. "Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don't recall saying anything to Isabelle . . ." | kissed magnus-bane mortal-instruments cassandra-clare | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4927315 | It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing. | John Green | ||
| 72ff990 | Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection." | harry-potter humor ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 71a8fc1 | Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9148f98 | I renamed myself Ari. If I switched the letter, my name was Air. I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me. | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | ||
| ba4425c | I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up! | live goodness motivational life inspirational aspirations morning purpose devil | Steve Maraboli | |
| 230a10d | Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. | love jodi-picoult my-sister-s-keeper broken-heart | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3ed4496 | So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes .. | change inspirational complacency | Jon Krakauer | |
| 06e8a32 | If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b0f2d65 | Gabriel's green eyes sought Will. "It was demon pox, wasn't it? You know all about it, don't you? Aren't you some sort of expert?" "Well, you needn't act as if I invented it," said Will." | gabriel will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 08dd92d | Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d79b4d4 | Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. | micawber procrastination | Charles Dickens | |
| e5415d3 | Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. | sunset | J.K. Rowling | |
| 389a9a8 | You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| a26038c | But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangerin.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| a5cde7d | He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die! | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 2c49df9 | i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms. | David Levithan | ||
| 8186155 | Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| c7817df | Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it. | ally gallagher inspirational carter girls | Ally Carter | |
| a73fe12 | So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of .. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 901c5f5 | There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry. | inspirational | Chris Colfer | |
| 4552070 | The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. | humour oscar-wilde | Oscar Wilde | |
| 1556d36 | Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 6e6e837 | If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong. | Veronica Roth |