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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 03c67cf | It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. | Stephen King | ||
| f6fcf4e | Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes. | Stephen King | ||
| 726adf0 | I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. | Jim Morrison | ||
| 273cdf0 | When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| d5f91eb | And the answer, said the judge. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His .. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 0233bc8 | This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 731e7b0 | Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| a1d3056 | When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| cdf0e49 | If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 1e4fe6c | I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 68340c9 | People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. | Eudora Welty | ||
| 9538248 | I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 84dce0d | Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| bb1b43b | I have no routines or personal history. One day I found out that they were no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped them. One must have the desire to drop them and then one must proceed harmoniously to chop them off, little by little. If you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts. It is best to erase all per.. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| ffced84 | Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail | Arthur Miller | ||
| 752e568 | O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven | William Shakespeare | ||
| c5e818d | Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. | life-lessons loyalty | William Shakespeare | |
| 535b4ce | No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth | William Shakespeare | ||
| ea0e40d | All that glisters is not gold. | William Shakespeare | ||
| f7ee34c | I'll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 1eff45f | When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 04622de | It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. 'I am watching you -- are you watching yourself in me?' Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the.. | landscape new-journalism place travel | Lawrence Durrell | |
| c404327 | I never miss a good chance to shut up | James Patterson | ||
| 4fab8c2 | the next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me. | James Patterson | ||
| 8952bb1 | Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?" "Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon." | mogget yrael | Garth Nix | |
| a9fe8f5 | The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations." -- | Charles de Lint | ||
| 4b256ee | What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| f1a0399 | Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come | paraphrased simile | Mario Puzo | |
| bca14d1 | No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. | Harper Lee | ||
| 2f47a23 | Yes, Einstein was a badass. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| c9ebfa3 | You'll never regret being a good friend. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 2bda9fe | No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. " | emily giffin | Emily Giffin | |
| a262f03 | To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons Shudders hell through all its regions. | William Blake | ||
| dd6d97f | Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 8c6ced2 | Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. | loneliness | Doris Lessing | |
| fc851ed | When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home. | marriage the-one true-love | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| e6ca06b | I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 1e956e3 | You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7b49fa0 | You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips. | dr-barlow goliath lady-boffin leviathan lips scott-westerfeld young-things | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 644a84c | Perhaps,' Taran said quietly, watching the moon-white riverbank slip past them, 'perhaps you have the truth of it. At first I felt as you did. Then I remember thinking of Eilonwy, only of her; and the bauble showed its light. Prince Rhun was ready to lay down his life; his thoughts were for our safety, not at all for his own. And because he offered the greatest sacrifice, the bauble glowed brightest for him. Can that be its secret? To think.. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 790ccfd | Two kisses in one kiss was all it took, a comfort, a warmth, perhaps temporary, perhaps false, but reassuring nonetheless, and mine, and theirs, ours, all three of us giggling, insane giggles and laughter with still more kisses on the way, and I remember a brief instant then, out of the blue, when I suddenly glimpsed my own father, a rare but oddly peaceful recollection, as if he actually approved of my play in the way he himself had always.. | joy sex single-sentence | Mark Z Danielewski | |
| bf6594a | It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 369f9a1 | Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora. | David Brin | ||
| 609783b | What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it. | Colum McCann |