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1,733 | “You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically.""Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.” | famous_quote |
1,582 | “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” | famous_quote |
2,125 | “I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” | famous_quote |
2,171 | “Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.” | famous_quote |
74 | “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” | famous_quote |
2,184 | “I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.” | famous_quote |
601 | “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” | famous_quote |
836 | “Fear cuts deeper than swords.” | famous_quote |
1,528 | “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” | famous_quote |
499 | “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” | famous_quote |
1,596 | “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” | famous_quote |
137 | “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” | famous_quote |
2,097 | “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” | famous_quote |
1,794 | “He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.""How very rude of him.""I told him I was."Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.” | famous_quote |
972 | “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it” | famous_quote |
1,642 | “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” | famous_quote |
1,885 | “We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.” | famous_quote |
2,301 | “God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!” | famous_quote |
2,028 | “Your silence will not protect you.” | famous_quote |
1,900 | “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” | famous_quote |
1,449 | “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” | famous_quote |
546 | “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” | famous_quote |
921 | “Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.â€� If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong womenâ€� is code for “I hate strong women.â€�)” | famous_quote |
580 | “I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.” | famous_quote |
1,372 | “I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.” | famous_quote |
1,956 | “Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.” | famous_quote |
2,003 | “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” | famous_quote |
2,096 | “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” | famous_quote |
703 | “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” | famous_quote |
2,308 | “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” | famous_quote |
2,403 | “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” | famous_quote |
1,625 | “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” | famous_quote |
637 | “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” | famous_quote |
1,009 | “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” | famous_quote |
640 | “Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it "Chops" because that was the name of his dogAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and a gold starAnd his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his auntsThat was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zooAnd he let them sing on the busAnd his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hairAnd his mother and father kissed a lotAnd the girl around the corner sent him aValentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meantAnd his father always tucked him in bed at nightAnd was always there to do itOnce on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it "Autumn" because that was the name of the seasonAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearlyAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paintAnd the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigarsAnd left butts on the pewsAnd sometimes they would burn holesThat was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black framesAnd the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa ClausAnd the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lotAnd his father never tucked him in bed at nightAnd his father got mad when he cried for him to do it.Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poemAnd he called it "Innocence: A Question" because that was the question about his girlAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his professor gave him an A and a strange steady lookAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed herThat was the year that Father Tracy diedAnd he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed wentAnd he caught his sister making out on the back porchAnd his mother and father never kissed or even talkedAnd the girl around the corner wore too much makeupThat made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to doAnd at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundlyThat's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poemAnd he called it "Absolutely Nothing"Because that's what it was really all aboutAnd he gave himself an A and a slash on each damned wristAnd he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen.” | famous_quote |
1,861 | “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” | famous_quote |
1,205 | “And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,"You owe Me."Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.” | famous_quote |
685 | “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” | famous_quote |
1,851 | “I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.” | famous_quote |
187 | “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” | famous_quote |
1,619 | “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” | famous_quote |
1,687 | “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” | famous_quote |
984 | “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” | famous_quote |
547 | “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.” | famous_quote |
1,431 | “Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” | famous_quote |
875 | “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” | famous_quote |
617 | “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” | famous_quote |
2,461 | “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.” | famous_quote |
1,365 | “Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.” | famous_quote |
1,243 | “Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.” | famous_quote |
902 | “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” | famous_quote |
162 | “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” | famous_quote |
1,974 | “Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” | famous_quote |
269 | “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.” | famous_quote |
631 | “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” | famous_quote |
905 | “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” | famous_quote |
2,014 | “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.” | famous_quote |
1,641 | “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” | famous_quote |
204 | “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” | famous_quote |
581 | “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.” | famous_quote |
1,579 | “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” | famous_quote |
840 | “People haven't always been there for me but music always has.” | famous_quote |
1,836 | “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” | famous_quote |
1,251 | “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.” | famous_quote |
1,719 | “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” | famous_quote |
1,642 | “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” | famous_quote |
2,297 | “The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.” | famous_quote |
874 | “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” | famous_quote |
1,464 | “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.” | famous_quote |
2,243 | “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach” | famous_quote |
689 | “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” | famous_quote |
2,010 | “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...” | famous_quote |
1,422 | “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” | famous_quote |
2,001 | “I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.” | famous_quote |
671 | “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.” | famous_quote |
1,171 | “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.” | famous_quote |
1,495 | “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.” | famous_quote |
943 | “Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.” | famous_quote |
2,246 | “I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.I was a survivor, and I was strong.I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.” | famous_quote |
1,449 | “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” | famous_quote |
895 | “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.” | famous_quote |
2,189 | “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.” | famous_quote |
1,336 | “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” | famous_quote |
164 | “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction.” | famous_quote |
2,361 | “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” | famous_quote |
2,068 | “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” | famous_quote |
1,105 | “Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored."In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.""You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken."Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.""I didn't invite him into bed," Clary snapped. "We were just kissing.""Just kissing?" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. "How swiftly you dismiss our love.” | famous_quote |
1,753 | “You'd think people had better things to gossip about," said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. "Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest."Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.What did you tell her?"I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. "Much more macho."Thanks," said Harry, grinning. "And what did you tell her Ron’s got?"A Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where.” | famous_quote |
2,352 | “I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.” | famous_quote |
1,938 | “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...” | famous_quote |
370 | “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” | famous_quote |
1,880 | “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” | famous_quote |
852 | “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.” | famous_quote |
383 | “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” | famous_quote |
1,931 | “The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.” | famous_quote |
2,492 | “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"MY POINT EXACTLY.” | famous_quote |
424 | “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” | famous_quote |
2,208 | “Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?” | famous_quote |
628 | “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” | famous_quote |
894 | “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” | famous_quote |
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