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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cfc60b3 | I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this." | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 9cdcd12 | Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 2f7bbfc | Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 5696b8a | What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 11ff356 | Experience is a question of instinct about life. | life | Oscar Wilde | |
| ce064d9 | Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 16b29a4 | War is not won by victory. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f0a48fb | I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic. | sex love alcohol | Sue William Silverman | |
| 89fde60 | Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind | myth | Joseph Campbell | |
| 9d697fc | When in doubt, ingest carbs. | humor | Rachel Cohn | |
| 824f4b2 | And Cormia will be okay, I mean, she's not kicked out of here, correct?" "She shall be welcomed back herein. She is a fine female. Just not...as well suited to this life as some of us are." In the quiet heartbeats that followed, he had an image of her undressing him for the shower, her guileless, innocent green eyes looking up at him as she fumbled with his belt and his leathers. She only wanted to do what was right. Back when this whole.. | phury | J.R. Ward | |
| 9720697 | To be denied was like getting shut out of a Public Park. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 67f79c4 | And speaking of on board, she'd moved into John's room properly. In his closet, her leathers and her muscles shirts were hanging next to his, and their shitkickers were lined up together, and all her knives and her guns and her little toys were now locked up in his fire proof cabinet. Their ammo was even stacked together. How frickin' romantic. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 070d469 | Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 2d41334 | There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,' I said, 'but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| a236c0b | How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. | death-and-dying | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 4dde6c1 | No damn cat, and no damn cradle. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| d342b8e | Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 61f8ea6 | Now I understand," said the last man." | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 2bc5da2 | There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 3e78b73 | Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 7c0713b | In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and listened to many detailed and intense stories firsthand, but the one comment that affected me the most came from a former soldier who lowered his gaze to the tabletop and said, 'I never watch war movies. | war | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| 6fd2cd5 | The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune. | Georges Bataille | ||
| bd73c03 | Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed. | kissing kiss truth girls | John Green | |
| e56406c | Long week. Long month. Long life. | long | John Green | |
| 6f7bf0f | I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken...but I do know the moment I began to feel fixed. It was the day the green eyed boy fell in love with me. | John Goode | ||
| 15c8dbf | You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU! | John Green | ||
| 1888738 | I nudged my head into his shoulder. "Thanks for offering to come over." "you realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you," he said. "i guess?" i said. "all efforts to save me from you will fail," he said." | John Green | ||
| 25fd34c | We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. | John Green | ||
| cf089b8 | There is no try. There is only do. | trying success | John Green | |
| e701df5 | People always get used to beauty, though." "I haven't gotten used to you just yet," he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. "Thank you for coming to Amsterdam," he said. | John Green | ||
| ddee424 | You can't divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can't see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo's eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection - uncracked and uncrackable. | John Green | ||
| 44ff95d | How long have you been dating her?' I asked. Nine months. We never got along. I mean, I didn't even briefly like her. Like, my mom and my dad- my dad would get pissed, and then he would beat the shit out of my mom. And then my dad would be all nice and they'd have a honeymoon period. But with Sara, there's never a honeymoon period. God, how could she think I was a rat? I know, I know: Why don't we break up?' He ran a hand through his hair,.. | John Green | ||
| daef830 | I guess at some point, you realize that whoever takes care of you is just a person, and that they have no superpowers and can't actually protect you from getting hurt. | John Green | ||
| 281dbbe | I'm the motherfucking fox, no one can catch the fox." -Takumi" | John Green | ||
| 83052a8 | I am never going to get better at being a good person. I am always going to be the blood and shit of things. | John Green | ||
| 4200757 | This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swar.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 998d2a6 | I'm just warning you, I'm probably going to be a total hard-ass vamp." Mallory snorted and walked out of the kitchen, calling out, "Yeah, well, you've got a purple marshmallow on your chin, hard-ass vamp." | Chloe Neill | ||
| ae0b7ab | You are caught, Sentinel.' His voice was rough. | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| 5c70d77 | You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won't be far behind you. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 14a3415 | He turned on his heel and began down the hall, then called back, "And we'll need to chat about your running off campus and into the arms of shifters without so much as a telephone call." Sometimes, he was so predictable." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 1beb9c5 | But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourse.. | T.H. White | ||
| c52fac3 | Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing .. | truth | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 9b09fb3 | Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. | Edward Gorey |