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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3199281 | I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?" -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b3a931c | I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables)" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2c813ef | But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun- carpeted stairs that September noon - the first bride of Green Gables, slender and shining-eyed, in the mist of her maiden veil, with her arms full of roses. Gilbert, waiting for her in the hall below, looked up at her with adoring eyes. She was his at last, this evasive, long-sought Anne, won after years of patient waiting. It was to him she was coming in the sweet sur.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ad4d40f | The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. | laws fascism | John Lescroart | |
| 10c4464 | I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, "Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight." My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: "When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town - to pack up and go (you can ev.. | travel writing trust remedy self-recovery pen healing self-esteem writers | bell hooks | |
| 7b8d1f6 | To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 85d0e64 | Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 418b867 | It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| f3a5232 | Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you",scoffed Opal." | opal-koboi | Eoin Colfer | |
| cc89f22 | Radomosity, thought Artemis. And he felt like weeping. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 1c347bd | We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| bc2d127 | Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 56773c7 | If things go badly for me tonight, I want you to stay with Mr. Wynter; he will pay you a decent wage." "Will he make me bathe?" "No, he will debate the matter with you until you decide to wash." "Ah. One of those." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| aea7a8e | Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 030781c | Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. In the meanwhile, lov.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b8fff92 | I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 0333626 | What have you been doing during my absence?' 'Nothing particular; teaching Adele as usual.' 'And getting a good deal paler than you were - as I saw at first sight. What is the matter?' 'Nothing at all, sir.' 'Did you take any cold that night you half drowned me?' 'Not the least.' 'Return to the drawing-room: you are deserting too early.' 'I am tired, sir.' He looked at me for a minute. 'And a little depressed,' he said. 'What about? Tell me.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| c5f60aa | His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. | mr-rochester | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 3d98faa | I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all. | have-it-all wants | Ariel Levy | |
| 703ef35 | I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. | relationships i-m-sorry sorry language | Beth Revis | |
| 83ebd1a | It's Elder who's my safe place. Elder's my home. | Beth Revis | ||
| 9e151c1 | I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her. | elder beth-revis shades-of-earth | Beth Revis | |
| 34d9c52 | You must dedicate your whole life to this idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on this ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board. | Beth Revis | ||
| 6eda730 | Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people. | David Eddings | ||
| b8442ae | How 'bout a kiss, ?" -- Rudy Steiner" | Markus Zusak | ||
| a5aa442 | I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result. | markus-zusak the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 8c42d18 | Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart. | Markus Zusak | ||
| aaa3a68 | I'm Angelina," she says. "Are you here to save us?" I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. "You're right, Angelina - I'm here to save you." "Can you? Really?" "I'll try," I say and the girl smiles." | Markus Zusak | ||
| c0b66bd | For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sic.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 07082f9 | Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words "bliss," "passion," and "rapture" - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books." | marriage relationships | Gustave Flaubert | |
| c42154b | Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is the exact truth. | truth | George Eliot | |
| 5ce591e | Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted people's parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated b.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 9d5c58e | Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 91b4292 | Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 4e5fd28 | You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f186a98 | Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life perfectly. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. It is mine. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a42b37a | What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?" What Manson means is that every single pursuit--no matter how wonderful and exciting and glamorous it may initially seem--comes with its own brand of shit sandwich, its own lousy side effects. As Manson writes with profound wisdom: "Everything sucks, some of the time." You just have to decide what sort of suckage you're willing to deal with. So the question is not so much "What are you passiona.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| aeaf4f8 | All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d1de58e | The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 16aa070 | A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am ke.. | morality existentialism | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 7332473 | Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength. | David James Duncan | ||
| 1a7fab7 | The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f51574a | Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 48c277d | We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart." | Neil Gaiman |