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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f47dae | How can my ankles and arms be obscene? | Libba Bray | ||
| e2bedb5 | But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps. | Libba Bray | ||
| 1b16591 | shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us | Ann Patchett | ||
| a7fbe8f | If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bb9c294 | An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1e31772 | If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. | haunted living mistakes | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| d2114aa | The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0a63723 | At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty. | writing | Nicole Krauss | |
| fc65d64 | Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me. | Bill Bryson | ||
| c3570cb | I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Dure. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life." | overpopulation superiority-complex | Dan Simmons | |
| cfaa18d | No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a799905 | Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty. | max-lucado nonfiction | Max Lucado | |
| 589e879 | Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. | love meaning-of-life philosophy | Max Lucado | |
| 06c3f97 | If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange | life loneliness strange | Paulo Coelho | |
| dec3455 | When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 96c8338 | Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4b393d0 | Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| e9c9af4 | During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| afb9bca | Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ff59417 | It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 9daeb77 | I'll tell you a terrible secret -- Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 1b25966 | Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d015ad1 | But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open." | diplomacy fear power | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 60d8a7b | I'll let Cassian know you're ... open to his advances." "Good," I said." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 90c17c8 | I love my people, and my family. Do not think I won't become a monster to keep them protected. | court-of-mist-and-fury feyre monster rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6240960 | In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself. | freyre guilty salvation tamlin | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 06e8bf0 | He didn't understand-how she could be so delicate, so small, when she had overturned his life entirely. Worked miracles with those hands and that soul, this woman who had crossed mountains and seas. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0e2a517 | So," he said, flicking her nose, "how long have you wanted--" "I don't see how that's any of your business, Captain Westfall. And I won't tell you until you tell me." He flicked her nose again, and she batted away his fingers. He caught her hand in his, holding it up so he could look at her amethyst ring--the ring she never took off, not even to bathe. "The Yulemas ball. Maybe earlier. Maybe even Samhuinn, when I brought you this ring. But .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5f205d0 | With every breath, Aideon felt that lingering scent wrapping tighter around his heart and soul. When she came back, he was never letting her go. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e7769f6 | She would not waste energy missing him, wishing he were here to talk everything through, or to just have the comfort of waking up beside him and knowing he existed. She swallowed | queen-of-shadows rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d54d859 | I was told to come to this temple. I found it occupied. So I unoccupied it. You're welcome. | empire-of-storms sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| c38140b | Humanity i love you because you would rather black the boots of success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both parties and because you unflinchingly applaud all songs containing the words country home and mother when sung at the old howard Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink and when you're flush pride keeps you from the pawn shops and.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| c604b49 | I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic. | Miranda July | ||
| e2b8102 | I nodded. "Where's your hunter?" She flinched. "He went home. We thought it would be best." Her eyes went from worried to warning. "He's under Drake protection." "So am I, or so I've been led to understand." "Of course you are," Lucy said, her nose pressed to the window. "Misunderstanding. No big deal." Solange quirked a half smile. "You might try complete sentences, Lucy." "Can't. Busy." I was curious despite myself. "What are you doin.. | lucy solange | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 318f110 | I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 90bac03 | I tramp the perpetual journey My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can t.. | journey son | Walt Whitman | |
| 571d2f9 | What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!" | Rachel Caine | ||
| 67133c4 | Tell me he's not talking to Brandon," Claire said. "Um... Ok. He's not talking to Brandon." "You're lying." "Yeah. He's talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He's not as stupid as he looks, mostly." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 3ed4358 | Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already! | Rachel Caine | ||
| 7b571d5 | Hey," he said softly. He moved closer to the bars, pressing his face between them. "I always said you were jailbait, but this is ridiculous." | Rachel Caine | ||
| a337aa3 | The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another. | literature reading words | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 9b469bd | I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health. | sigmund-freud | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 6d5a305 | Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 387aab4 | perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read. | elinor | Cornelia Funke |