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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5082abd | And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness. | love soulmates liberty | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 88f85f7 | He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored. | John Irving | ||
| cbeb3e1 | And the thing about love," Wally said to Angel, "is that you can't force anyone. It's natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard," he added, "because you often feel like interfering - you want to be the one who mak.. | John Irving | ||
| b21cf65 | O God -- please give him back! I shall keep asking You. | prayer religion god | John Irving | |
| 8ef9129 | He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he u.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| b153410 | After you, it's all cheap tequila. | love taste | Jacqueline Carey | |
| d0e0175 | Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| faeb1df | In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 58217ed | He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did." -- | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 6b7a76b | Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I heard so many people wish that they lived 'at the turn of the century,' or 'when life was simpler,' or 'worth living,' or 'when you could bring children into the world and count on the future,' or simply 'in the good old days.' People didn't talk t.. | present past escapist escapism modernity nostalgia | Jack Finney | |
| 63a3c69 | What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. | Gene Wolfe | ||
| 14fbd62 | I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 3548719 | Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. | Edward St. Aubyn | ||
| 2b70089 | Roses are red Violets are blue Everything's possible Nothing is true. | Alan Moore | ||
| 2598c4c | May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 576e39c | Not cry. Fly. "I can't fly," Bran said. "I can't, I can't..." How do you know? Have you ever tried? The voice was high and thin. Bran looked around to see where it was coming from. A crow was spiraling down with him, just out of touch, following him as he fell. "Help me," he said. I'm trying, the crow replied... The crow took to the air and flapped around Bran's hand. "You have wings," Bran pointed out. Maybe you do too. Bran felt along his.. | inspirational crow fly | George R.R. Martin | |
| 19bd372 | Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 780cb1f | Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they're called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress? | john-hayden underworld | Meg Cabot | |
| b56edf9 | Kings don't sneak. | Meg Cabot | ||
| d5d70aa | Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish. | William Gibson | ||
| 4593478 | The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong? | Cressida Cowell | ||
| 9d3e741 | I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| 46227a1 | Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| edb25d1 | People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in that makes you happy or unhappy. | inspirational miss-marple | Agatha Christie | |
| 6b75059 | But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. | library | Alberto Manguel | |
| 51efa3c | Life happened because I turned the pages. | words literature reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| 5a1ae1d | I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even. | love mother-s-love | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| b400426 | It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter." When a bit of me hurts, I always mind." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| f5d18da | Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. | Jean Rhys | ||
| f29994c | The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say." | poetry | Louis L'Amour | |
| ecc8fd8 | I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind. | stereotypes people flattery misanthropic roguery society hypocrisy deceit | Molière | |
| 4f8a7b3 | Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that. | parenting | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| a3ccc50 | Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3944c6e | He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 51d62c9 | Lifaen beamed and cried, "Isn't she glorious? See how her scales catch the light! No treasure in the world can match this sight." Similar exclamations floated across the river from Nari. "Bloody unbearable, that's what it is," muttered Orik into his beard. Eragon hid a smile, though he agreed with the dwarf. The elves never seemed to tire of praising Saphira. said Saphira. She landed with a gigantic splash and submerged her head to escape .. | orik saphira eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| c14e024 | A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. | writing | Anaïs Nin | |
| 4520e66 | Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 4f6177c | For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle? | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1a3f0b6 | A little present from my run-in with a sword. Or should I say from when the sword had a run-in with me?" His eyes lit up. "Want to see the scar? It's cool." He started pulling his shirt out of his pants. "Janco," Ari warned. "We're not supposed to be fraternizing with the Sitians." "But she's not Sitian. Right, Yelena? You haven't gone south on us, have you?" Janco's voice held mock horror. "Because if you have I can't give you your present.. | janco yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 1f74cd4 | The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior. | Susan Cain | ||
| ff933a1 | I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing--and then long for more. That was black magic.. | magic | Jim Butcher | |
| 0356ca8 | Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a cliched, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| e132a57 | The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming. | humor leanansidhe | Jim Butcher | |
| 778df93 | As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a ?" "I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said. Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass." | Jim Butcher |