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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 72ccb04 | His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ed1b941 | She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon... but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her "little sister." She'd tell him, "I missed you," and he'd say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together. She would have liked that. She would have liked that better than anything." | george r.r. martin | ||
| 1717dba | Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana | princess | Meg Cabot | |
| c4b7a20 | She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage. | William Gibson | ||
| 8c88693 | Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. | Jimmy Buffett | ||
| 3a340de | do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 655fe19 | if you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| dea63ce | How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking wi.. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 394110c | He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 167a81a | What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet. | life | Sara Gruen | |
| 4117b38 | He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| d5c83fb | The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. | fantasy | Emma Donoghue | |
| 133428b | Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. | solitude | Jean Rhys | |
| 6f58afa | This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible. | Brandon Mull | ||
| ab3ac8d | If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. | faith heart motivation | Timothy Keller | |
| f94f88f | His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss. | grieve life life-and-death loss nature-of-things | Robin Hobb | |
| 6d2406d | Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2e6944b | But of course it makes sense because we are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in the West their best is already past and so they have to make a fetish of that past.Remember this is our newly middle-class world. We haven't completed the first cycle of prosperity, before going back to the beginning again, to drink milk from the cow's udder. | third-world-countries | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 8a2d133 | There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich. | rich | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 3be22d9 | Greatness depends on where you are coming from. | relativism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| e0cf341 | Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal. For example, most people consider that the greatest evidence of an event one can obtain is to see it with their own eyes, and in a court of law little is held in more esteem than eyewitness testimony. Yet if you asked to display for a court a video of the same quality as the unprocessed data catptured on the retina of a .. | eyes perception reality | Leonard Mlodinow | |
| 98af421 | It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe." -Brom" | Christopher Paolini | ||
| dfb36c0 | Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 41151cf | As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction, We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way. Yes, but which way shall we choose? Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 524ad6f | Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion, he trembled. He did not want to leave, but he knew he must. 'Stay with me-' Her gaze darted up. 'I cannot.' '...stay with me until the first curve in the river.' She hesitated, then nodded. | eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| dc67002 | Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." | Christopher Paolini | ||
| c33ae8d | You look like hell,' he said to me in a low voice. 'Gee, Dax, don't coat it with honey. Tell me what you really think,' I said. | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| e00c2d9 | Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing. | Susan Cain | ||
| 26fdb2a | It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides! | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| ae1912b | If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness. | foolishness learn lot | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 7b98165 | He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. | sadness | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 137d33a | Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9bd8da3 | Shaken to the depths of your soul, you know that day and night someone is waiting for you, thinking of you, longing and sighing for you - a woman, a stranger. She wants, she demands, she desires you with every fiber of her being, with her body, with her blood. She wants your hands, your hair, your lips, your night and your day, your emotions, your senses, and all your thought and dreams. She wants to share everything with you, to take every.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 71af78d | Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs] | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 5e3b0e9 | The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 656cf5e | Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers. | god love | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 1d7c9bc | Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I'm a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers-all that sort of thing. | lady | Jim Butcher | |
| 89f9df6 | Pain isn't a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain -- physical, emotional, and otherwise -- is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly--it's a te.. | pain | Jim Butcher | |
| 19aeeef | Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 441cad3 | Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell." I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit." | harry-dresden molly-carpenter | Jim Butcher | |
| 98489f9 | Men plan. Fate Laughs. | first-lord guis-alera | Jim Butcher | |
| 8667b99 | I'm not a Wiccan. I'm not big on churches of any kind, despite the fact that I've spoken, face-to-face, with an archangel of the Almighty. But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspirin.. | harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 1c4e7f4 | She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally." | books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya | Holly Black | |
| 7b6b9f1 | Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out. | monsters | Holly Black |