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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8667e37 | no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfilment. | Alain de Botton | ||
| ffada56 | Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. | innocence pity william-blake | William Blake | |
| 9c3dc7f | the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 01ec1d1 | Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. | Sir Walter Scott | ||
| 50bb636 | People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. | peeps scott-la scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| e38d236 | Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war." | war weapon | Scott Westerfeld | |
| e7e1e14 | Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel. | comebacks funny humor humorous silly | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 68fd9bb | You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if j.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 03b8d60 | When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| d5c1f92 | You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble d.. | loyalty | Connie Willis | |
| d8937b9 | There are no days more full than those we go back to. | Colum McCann | ||
| e4d61c8 | No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final. | humanity truth | Colum McCann | |
| e019d62 | Before you hate something you should try to understand it. | philosophy understanding | Martha Grimes | |
| c9480f4 | I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria | Danielle Steel | ||
| 69e7fbe | I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later. | life-lessons | Esmeralda Santiago | |
| 16e0a43 | She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out. | Henry Miller | ||
| 055538b | Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart. | Philip Pullman | ||
| c4ec49d | He glanced at me, his eyes dark. "Would you rather talk about your dream?" "No." "Considering that I was featured in it, I think I deserve to know the particulars. Were my clothes missing because we were in bed? Was I touching you?" He glanced at me. His voice could've melted the clothes off my body. "Were you touching me?" | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7ea93d3 | Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?" "I'm not implying. I'm saying it." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cc76c62 | In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 852cf0f | People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my family. (...) I built all this so I can protect you. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| fff17e1 | I mourn my sword, but that's alright. Grandmother gave me another one. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c20447c | Curran gave me a flat look. "I can always drive to a burger joint instead." "Oh, so you'd throw a burger down my throat and expect making out in the back seat?" He grinned. "We can do it in the front seat instead, if you prefer. Or on the hood of the car." "I'm not doing it on the hood of the car." "Is that a dare?" Why me?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0d4d512 | I'm sorry about the dinner." "Best date ever. Well, until people died and vampires showed up. But before that it was awesome." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 117401f | If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far." I froze." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 19225c5 | I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| a4f4448 | You're problem is, you underestimate me because I'm a woman. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| acf85ef | Since when do you give a crap about my welfare anyway? I think you're confused as to the nature of our relationship. You and I, we don't get along. You're a psychopathic control freak. You order me around and I want to kill you. I'm a pigheaded insubordinate ass. I drive you mad and you want to strangle me." "Once! I did it once!" "Once was plenty. The point is, we don't play nice. We-" He jerked his arms out from under my knees, pulled me .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cf206f1 | Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c73fb71 | You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear. | humor | Jen Lancaster | |
| 92fb442 | Sa fugi de tine o zi, doua, douazeci nu e usor, dar nici imposibil. Faci matematici sau marxism ca S.T.H., faci sionism ca Winkler, citesti carti ca mine, umbli dupa femei sau joci sah, sau te dai cu capul de pereti. Dar intr-o zi, intr-un minut de neatentie, te intalnesti cu tine insuti la un colt de suflet, cum te-ai intalni la un colt de strada cu un creditor de care te-ai ferit zadarnic. Dai ochii cu tine si atunci intelegi cat de inuti.. | Mihail Sebastian | ||
| b51da2a | An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory! | Beth Moore | ||
| 3a17bd9 | She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry. | Miranda July | ||
| 629cf11 | In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment? | love | Miranda July | |
| fa23499 | Solange and all her irritating brothers could get themselves killed without me. I deserved to be part of their clandestine plans. I'd earned it. And I was sure they'd need a human touch at some point. And if they asked Hunter to help instead of me, I'd stake every last one of them myself. Mom says jealousy is unattractive. So's a broken nose. I'm just saying. | pg-39 | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 6de75ad | You're being an ass." But she tilted her head so I could continue nibbling. Centuries of her hunter ancestors rolled over in their graves." "Chapter 24" | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| e08600c | Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. | love marriage marriage-advice romance time | Esther Perel | |
| 6479531 | And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, | Walt Whitman | ||
| 6f5bd79 | I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 25fb4c7 | TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. | politics wisdom | Walt Whitman | |
| fc2396a | Shane talking to Claire - "In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire" | Rachel Caine | ||
| 47b7ade | Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you." "You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the same," Michael said. He'd just finished kissing Eve, too. "While you're at it, don't get yourself killed, either, bro." "Ditto. And don't kiss me." | shane | Rachel Caine | |
| 4c77c34 | There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 695f4e7 | That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway." | morganville myrnin vampires | Rachel Caine |