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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eafcfec | You got a lot of ladies to get through. You're still young. First love's the sweetest, but it doesn't last." "Not ever?" I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. "When we fall that first time, we're not really in love with the girl. We're in love with being in love. We've got no idea what she's really about--or what she's capable of. We're in love with our idea of her .. | Holly Black | ||
| eb76287 | So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand. "I know you're very brave," he said. "Or stupid." " stupid. Brave Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how." -- | learned terrible stupid teaching | Holly Black | |
| ab3f162 | Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which. | Holly Black | ||
| 8a4a331 | Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 18eb80b | It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, "Old age is a continuous series of losses." Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: "Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre." | Atul Gawande | ||
| 24547f4 | Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the clouds as mine. I owe it to the peerless stars Which flame in the remotest sky That I see only with spent eyes Remembered suns I knew before. In vain I had at heart to find The center and the end of space. Beneath some burning, unknown gaze I feel my very wings unpinned And, burned because I beauty loved, .. | courtesan icarus paramours | Charles Baudelaire | |
| c646545 | If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what p.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 63720f7 | lmwt ymthl 'ml Hqyqy fy Hy@ lnsn. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d08668e | We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 69866f9 | Too perfect to be sexually attractive. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 29fe066 | A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c99161f | I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3dd6f71 | Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience... | Michael Crichton | ||
| 433a212 | Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c781ba6 | I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 6a5fc52 | A broken clock is right two times a day. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| debd7cd | All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better-- So why do I hate my life? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 696b758 | Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head." | humanity reality real-boy pinocchio | Orson Scott Card | |
| 84e49d2 | I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. | love depressing | Orson Scott Card | |
| 108682e | Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart. -Martin | friendship love inspirational redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| 216b6ff | And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| c05404b | Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| d35fcbd | No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. | fate destiny doom | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 78b1782 | He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 4354135 | I will regret being with you, Syd. Never. And I wish I could go back and relive those hours. I wish I could go back in time, and instead of hooking up with some chick, I'd man up and tell you how I really felt for you, how I've felt for you. | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 8e717ba | You drive me fucking insane sometimes." I drove myself fucking insane." | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout wait-for-you cam insane | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| f2e65ec | Some girl named Eva has him convinced that you put out after one beer." "What?" My voice was as shrill as the ringing tardy bell "I personally don't believe it" he went on blithely, "and I have a Porsche. Not as much leg room as a Beamer, but so much hotter, I'm told." | white-hot-kiss layla roth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 46c74b0 | but then again, they were like baby Einsteins on crack. | humor origin katy-swartz | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| a342f93 | It's okay. Everything is okay, . You're here now and I have you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a663f4b | Hope flickered in my chest. 'Do you think they'll stop this... zombie-apocalypse-in-the-making if they realize I'm back on Team Not-Insane? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 83f5c55 | Vegas. I was in Vegas with a Titan who needed to get drunk and laid. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4bf44c8 | I would be clapping like a seal right now if I weren't so fucking hung over, just so you know. Inside, I am doing happy jumping jacks for you with glittery pom poms. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 82fd46f | Jesus. He could see the headlines now. Aliens Among Us. Run! | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 899d157 | The gods wanted war? They were about to get it. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 188ba3a | Sorry. Sorry. Don't hit. Bitches be scary when they hit. | lmfao j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout wait-for-you jacob haha lol hit | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 669d232 | Seeing her, well, it did things I hadn't been ready to delve into before. Hell, I really didn't even know at what point I had become ready. Probably happened somewhere between when I thought she was dead and when she wasn't. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 547b0e4 | But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be. | Darren Shan | ||
| 3e80e77 | Sindrom na Defitsit na Vnimanieto (SDV) | the-lightning-thief the-olympians | Rick Riordan | |
| 87d8e3b | Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse. | crossover son-of-sobek percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 805cc78 | Correct." Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. "My people were the original Athenians--the gemini." "Like your zodiac sign?" Percy asked. "I'm a Leo." "No, stupid. "I'm a Leo. You're a Percy." -- | kekrops zodiac percy-jackson leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| f429686 | I turned to Alex. 'Hey, are you female today?' 'Hold on... There! Now I'm female.' My expression must have been priceless. Alex burst out laughing. 'I'm kidding. Yes, I'm female today. She and her. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 552818a | Frey was the god of spring and summer! read the caption. He was the god of wealth, abundance, and fertility. His twin sister, Freya, the goddess of love, was very pretty! She had cats! | Rick Riordan | ||
| f08ac63 | But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us. | half-blood | Rick Riordan | |
| 178f94d | Because Hope survives best at the Hearth. | Rick Riordan |