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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 267c9e0 | And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 81932bf | The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 02fef84 | Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath: And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die | fragility-of-life | William Blake | |
| d764dfa | Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's noth.. | drugs | Irvine Welsh | |
| e5fbd19 | Same rules apply. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 48ffb25 | I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by lim.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 53d13f5 | You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| dd81962 | the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light. | despereaux light violence | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 09d5f5f | Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| ceafeeb | if you could reason with religious people, there wouldn't be any religious people. | David Mitchell | ||
| 673a699 | Miss Rogers waved a hand. "But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all!" "Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels?" "These are rebels, young man. They have !" "That's no guarantee of sanity!" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 5e21e35 | It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you." -- | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 41e9814 | the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it. | bible-interpretation lgbt | Dan Savage | |
| 1b22bc7 | Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 709f64f | Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers | animal-rights animal-welfare sustainability | Peter Singer | |
| 6655384 | We should free ourselves from the narrowness of being related only to those familiar to us, either by the fact that they are blood relations or, in a larger sense, that we eat the same food, speak the same language, and have the same " common sense." Knowing men in the sense of compassionate and empathetic knowledge requires that we get rid of the narrowing ties of a given society, race or culture and penetrate to the depth of that human re.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 5980f5c | The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7a7f7ff | But suppose your daemon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a daemon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up. | self self-awareness | Philip Pullman | |
| e7bde90 | If I lose control, you'll be the first to know." "I'm quite perturbed by the idea." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5ebdf56 | Any activity?" Robert asked. "Not in the lasssht ten minutesh. Before that, very exshiting. I shaw Wolf Beta run by. There were vampiresh chassing her. She was yelling, 'Bill me, bloodshuckers!" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| bd2531f | My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 542819f | You think he's got 'government badass' tattooed on his chest?" I murmured. A faint grimace skewed Luther's mouth. "And 'I'd tell you but I'd have to kill you' on his ass." | kate luther magic-slays | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3345813 | Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this the part where I faint in fear?" Luther bit his lip. "He might also accept falling to your knees and holding your hands in humble supplication. Makes it easier for him to slap the cuffs on." | kate luther magic-slays severe-stare shane | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4e801a5 | Vampires smiled for many reasons, but when a vampire male smiled at you from this distance with that kind of look in his eyes it was done for one purpose only: to impress. Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 89e9617 | Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. "I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big reveal. And that's worked out for us so far. But this time you need to let me in. I can help. So, tell me the truth, do you have a plan?" Artemis met his friend's gaze and lied to her face. "No,.. | holly lies | Eoin Colfer | |
| 7caad34 | As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5ab7186 | What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? | faustus tragedy | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 02d79b0 | Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go--embrace me, Jane. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 8d67e51 | In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 6e3a770 | Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession. | Bette Greene | ||
| 5840c3d | One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt. | David Eddings | ||
| fad7222 | I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. B.. | merlin pagan | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 6ba353a | Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice. | the-haunted-mask the-haunted-mask-ii | R.L. Stine | |
| 14de5c0 | Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion. | John le Carré | ||
| 5c0fb1c | And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me. | hearts hips legs lips reach sickness smile touch | Markus Zusak | |
| c370100 | THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 9db1bd6 | Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. | humans life sensibility | Markus Zusak | |
| 12c0142 | Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears. | love | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 5cf8c71 | It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings - much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. | George Eliot | ||
| 2977ff8 | A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool. | suicide | Nick Hornby | |
| 79efde2 | Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it i.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| ff3e334 | Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b4e8668 | We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| d28aee1 | So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball | Virginia Woolf |