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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d056694 | Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 4bafa79 | It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again. | manic-depression mental-illness mental-health | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| d40dcb4 | And the first rude sketch that the world has seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art?" | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 0ed8f92 | LADY BRACKNELL. May I ask if it is in this house that your invalid friend Mr. Bunbury resides? ALGERNON. [Stammering.] Oh! No! Bunbury doesn't live here. Bunbury is somewhere else at present. In fact, Bunbury is dead, LADY BRACKNELL. Dead! When did Mr. Bunbury die? His death must have been extremely sudden. ALGERNON. [Airily.] Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon. I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. LADY BRACKNELL. What did he die of? A.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 13f99d3 | Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant. | freedom news | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| cc9faf3 | Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 768219d | Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| efa7af8 | Your blood coagulates beautifully. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 21e21e8 | If there's empty spaces in your heart, They'll make you think it's wrong, Like having empty spaces, Means you never can be strong, But I've learned that all these spaces, Means there's room enough to grow, And the people that once filled them, Were always meant to be let go, And all these empty spaces, Create a strange sort of pull, That attract so many people, You wouldn't meet if they were full, So if you're made of empty spaces, Don't ev.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0608baa | The truth is always simpler than you can imagine. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 80ed9d3 | Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me. | the-last-vampire | Christopher Pike | |
| dc7d9b1 | The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 6f3d6e7 | Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment--not discouragement--you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvem.. | fate positivity strength life love growth nietzsche | Joseph Campbell | |
| d49c760 | Blay: Better than the full bifta. Especially because Qhuinn was beautiful to watch when he had sex. Just....beautitful. Back when Blay had tried to do the hetero thing, the two had tag-teamed a number of human females - not that he could have recalled any of the women's faces, bodies, or names. It had always been about Qhuinn for him. Always. | J.R. Ward | ||
| d9c40fe | I'm not cock-blocking for kicks and giggles. The mothership called | rhage | J.R. Ward | |
| 0e9ec6d | Phury stepped up in front of her, blocking the view as leaned down and put his mouth right to Throe's ear. As he squeezed Throe's biceps until it screamed in pain, the Brother growled softly, "You get hard and I'll castrate you as soon as she leaves." Well .. If that wasn't crystal clear." | throe | J.R. Ward | |
| 8e5592a | The Destroyer has arrived and you are he. | J.R. Ward | ||
| b299f80 | Before the man could answer V cursed "If I have to hear all that Keanu Reeves, Matrix, I am Neo' kind of shit my head's going to explode." "Don't you mean Neon?" Butch shot back "Cause he reminds me of the Citgo sign." Wraths head turned "Shut the fuck up. All of you." -- | J.R. Ward | ||
| fb6a85d | We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires--we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which generally comes to pass and is also favourable: we do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant to us. We have failed .. | Marcel Proust | ||
| d91208e | Listen carefully, I'm going to say three words." "I love you?" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 4988f51 | Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 12dce91 | If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C. | politics | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| a8ea84f | The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| eb290f9 | You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, "I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard." | John Green | ||
| 9141db4 | I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason. | John Green | ||
| 9cc7a6d | You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water." | bar-guide | John Green | |
| 144d386 | As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. | gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 2429562 | So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. | John Green | ||
| 30dd074 | Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, | reading | John Wilson | |
| 103f625 | E muito dificil ir embora - ate voce ir embora de fato. E entao ir embora se torna simplesmente a coisa mais facil do mundo. | John Green | ||
| 3459c20 | The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think. | writing | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 705189c | no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 18106ee | This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last. | love separation | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 9a2ddf0 | Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I... | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| f5f7fe2 | I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her. . . . Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time tell.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 055200f | Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 4df76c8 | You're quiet this evening," he said. I pasted on a pleasant smile. "It's been a long week. I'm just trying to relax." And I was trying to avoid more drama. He was quiet for two or three minutes, during which the two of us stood there together, black-clad vampires moving around us. "I can tell something's bothering--" I silently thought, "I was just enjoying the music." | Chloe Neill | ||
| e1e3fe5 | Margot winked at her. "Every so often, we gather together. We take a little time--a little cathartic time--to vent about those quirks that drive us crazy." Elbows on the table, I leaned forward. "So, which of the quirks are we talking about?" "First item on the list--the raising of the eyebrow." To demonstrate, she arched a carefully sculpted black brow of her own, then peered around at each of us." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 3be7101 | You drugged me," "I didn't want you to feel it, Merit." His voice was soft. "You'd been attacked; you hadn't consented. I didn't want you to have to go through it. I didn't want you to have to remember it." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 9aa851c | Aceptamos el amor que creemos merecer. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b3b61a4 | Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 6ba3df3 | Please believe that things are going good with me. Even if they're not they will be soon enough. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 616c9aa | Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 80695c3 | Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to anyone who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone can come up and be like 'Hey babe, what's your sign?' and I'll just point to my shirt." Rayne laughs appreciatively and tosses me the tank top. "Of course they might think you're pointing to your boobs in a 'have at 'em, big boy' kind of way." | Mari Mancusi |