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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a69b663 | Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. | heroism | Jodi Picoult | |
| c870d26 | Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'" I stared at him, shocked. The smile widened. "You will say 'please' before and 'thank you' after." Nervous laughter bubbled up. "You've gone insane. All that peroxide in your hair finally did your brain in, Goldilocks." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7e293c3 | If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him." | Veronica Roth | ||
| c179897 | Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies | death humor delaying leo the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| ba305be | He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. | romance misery obsession | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| f000a2a | It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0fbe568 | I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, | Walt Whitman | ||
| 0d91d94 | Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone. | fear trust friendship inspirational communication trauma | Fred Rogers | |
| 1921495 | I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to ta.. | physics | Philip Pullman | |
| c547786 | A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4d17e1a | You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers - the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? | motherhood breaking-dawn self-sacrifice | Stephenie Meyer | |
| cadc701 | Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths... all faiths... are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists .. | religion science god | Dan Brown | |
| 21ae4b4 | Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. | self-actualization | Jane Austen | |
| 6480ea5 | But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years. | heartbreak reflective | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2074124 | The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 644b275 | You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| afcc7e7 | Piper gripped his hand and followed him, "If I fall, you're catching me." "Uh, sure." Jason hoped he wasn't blushing. Leo stepped out next. "You're catching me, too, Superman. But I ain't holding your hand." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3f3bd48 | Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you're doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry | inspirational live-in-the-moment today | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 4dbe230 | Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. | correcting criticism inspirational correction contradiction opinions paranoia | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 8e2d97b | The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 53ee716 | First sign of madness, talking to your own head. | madness | J.K. Rowling | |
| 4f4308b | It's the same with people who say, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying. | pain love | Rob Sheffield | |
| 6dc1b23 | Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. | D. H. Lawrence | ||
| b03aa9e | The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 445f8f3 | I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost t.. | Jane Austen | ||
| 7295a53 | Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| f464aad | When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. | raven-boys gansey power | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| a8bdea3 | Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple. | seasons color art fall autumn | J.K. Rowling | |
| 72569c3 | I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5ebe28f | To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9fe654b | God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. | h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
| ab83be6 | Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. | romance soul | Wole Soyinka | |
| 24855f1 | An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f8461a9 | Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. | David Levithan | ||
| 77b8732 | She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom. | John Green | ||
| 8ca38fe | If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn. | fame pleasure | Dorothy Parker | |
| ed39730 | Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly. | Richard Bach | ||
| 781e581 | All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. | reading character impact characters ideas | Diane Setterfield | |
| a66c442 | Leo: "So...giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter." Piper: "Is that another joke?" | psycho-babysitter venti piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| 2cf7822 | I can't think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there's no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more. | Franz Kafka | ||
| d35e22e | My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. | sherlock-holmes introduction | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 444b3a1 | You are what what you eat eats. | food | Michael Pollan | |
| 5d7b8fc | Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this. | love writers | Vita Sackville-West | |
| 694f831 | I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. I want to take back the book of artsy photos I gave you, because you didn't get it and said it was hipster trash. I want to take back what I said about you being an emotional zombie. I want to take back the time I called you "honey" in front of your sister and you looked like I had just shown her pictures of us having sex. I want to.. | love | David Levithan |