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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5b3954 | People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. | resolutions | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 7d8b7f5 | Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? | temptation sin | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 0c95add | If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. | love | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| a610847 | Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake. | love inspirational | Veronica Roth | |
| 3ed0b5c | We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we a.. | cecelia-ahern | Cecelia Ahern | |
| d1e3542 | It was a pleasure to burn. | opening-lines | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9757035 | I quote others only in order the better to express myself. | irony humor truth quoting | Michel de Montaigne | |
| dbec7f7 | I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 31ca9ee | Sometimes," he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, "people just want to be happy, even if it's not real." | Veronica Roth | ||
| b2a40e6 | A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 82ab1ca | Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend. | friendship | Stephen Chbosky | |
| b12062e | You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing." | humor stalker percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| a211ddb | Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. | music heart inspirational expression power-of-music | Alphonse de Lamartine | |
| d96b824 | Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 842bb8a | The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. | inspirational equilibrium crying tears | Samuel Beckett | |
| fa1e76c | No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 51dc133 | Nothing is ever certain. | lies death truth phrases cruel sad | Alice Sebold | |
| 60f19e0 | Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d45700c | Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, saute it, whatever. MAKE. | action creating humor inspirational | Joss Whedon | |
| 0bb5f54 | It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon th.. | youth truth ideals real nostalgia | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| eb1e12f | You. Are. Not. Leaving. Me. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| a079464 | I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen. | writing challenges keys | Louisa May Alcott | |
| a504abe | Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 311c8ec | I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. | weep sentimentality weeping | Charles Bukowski | |
| d9372cd | Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets. | lies | Neil Gaiman | |
| 289dc7a | To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. | romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting | Jocelyn Soriano | |
| 8f27d75 | The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| fa1b77c | And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous." "Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood." "It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 93023a8 | Dreams can be dangerous things. | jem-carstairs jem | Cassandra Clare | |
| 22c6bf9 | The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you. | loved-ones weapons | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 58ac842 | What is it with you today?" says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. "Oh, you know," I say. "Sun shining. Birds chirping." She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel." | humor tris | Veronica Roth | |
| a7e59ba | So? What are you going to do about it? Throw your mashed potatoes at me? I'm consumed by terror. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 542de7b | There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. | truth simplicity | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a30d230 | Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itse.. | life ordinary extraordinary advice lives children | William Martin | |
| 36c5656 | There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 7ca0157 | Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge." We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas. The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling--not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's di.. | thalia-grace zoe-nightshade grover-underwood percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 056293d | In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go. | inspirational | Ally Condie | |
| bfed370 | The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. | William Golding | ||
| 8305d07 | Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. | faith belief | Mitch Albom | |
| 13b3a60 | Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 91c2792 | There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. | time memories sadness | Nicholas Sparks | |
| ea5542c | You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. | dreams inspirational | Richard Bach | |
| 76327a2 | I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| c954f2e | Woman?" She chuckled. "Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man." Dany met his stare. "I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo's riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros." | George R.R. Martin |