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1,815 | “I'm going to wake Peeta," I say."No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his."Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches frim his nose, and give him a shake. "Peeta. Peeta, wake up," I say in a soft, singsong voice.His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. "Aa!"Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off. Every time we try to stop, we look at Peeta's attempt to maintain a disdainful expression and it sets us off again.” | famous_quote |
2,385 | “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” | famous_quote |
360 | “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.” | famous_quote |
568 | “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” | famous_quote |
1,415 | “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” | famous_quote |
2,265 | “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.” | famous_quote |
1,597 | “Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back."You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward."I can't.""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this."I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it.""Why me?""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes."I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned."I feel like I could eat the world raw.” | famous_quote |
1,692 | “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” | famous_quote |
201 | “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.” | famous_quote |
2,064 | “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” | famous_quote |
2,369 | “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.” | famous_quote |
517 | “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” | famous_quote |
1,348 | “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” | famous_quote |
1,435 | “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” | famous_quote |
1,341 | “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” | famous_quote |
680 | “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” | famous_quote |
1,988 | “Where words leave off, music begins.” | famous_quote |
1,491 | “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” | 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 |
1,968 | “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” | famous_quote |
1,712 | “Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.” | famous_quote |
2,434 | “What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.” | famous_quote |
777 | “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” | famous_quote |
2,145 | “God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.” | famous_quote |
1,826 | “Have you really read all those books in your room?â€�Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.” | famous_quote |
207 | “Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.” | famous_quote |
1,537 | “She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.” | famous_quote |
1,659 | “Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.” | famous_quote |
2,213 | “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” | famous_quote |
21 | “We accept the love we think we deserve.” | famous_quote |
153 | “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” | famous_quote |
1,962 | “That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.” | famous_quote |
218 | “He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.” | famous_quote |
668 | “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” | famous_quote |
1,518 | “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” | famous_quote |
2,277 | “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.” | famous_quote |
2,067 | “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.” | famous_quote |
949 | “You smell good, too,â€� said PatchIt’s called a shower.â€� I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.â€�Naked. I know the drill.” | famous_quote |
2,195 | “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” | famous_quote |
402 | “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever” | famous_quote |
595 | “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” | famous_quote |
2,414 | “It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.” | famous_quote |
1,437 | “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” | famous_quote |
1,157 | “No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” | famous_quote |
1,742 | “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” | famous_quote |
1,306 | “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them” | famous_quote |
72 | “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” | famous_quote |
480 | “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.” | famous_quote |
559 | “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” | famous_quote |
744 | “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” | famous_quote |
1,466 | “I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.” | famous_quote |
99 | “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” | famous_quote |
1,082 | “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” | famous_quote |
2,305 | “Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred."Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?""Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.” | famous_quote |
412 | “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” | famous_quote |
1,088 | “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” | famous_quote |
1,177 | “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” | famous_quote |
2,008 | “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” | famous_quote |
2,313 | “I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.” | famous_quote |
820 | “I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.” | famous_quote |
661 | “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” | famous_quote |
559 | “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” | famous_quote |
1,271 | “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” | famous_quote |
1,813 | “Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” | famous_quote |
609 | “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.” | 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 |
24 | “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” | famous_quote |
2,028 | “Your silence will not protect you.” | famous_quote |
283 | “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” | famous_quote |
1,472 | “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” | famous_quote |
300 | “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.” | famous_quote |
1,091 | “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul” | famous_quote |
1,030 | “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.” | famous_quote |
816 | “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.” | famous_quote |
82 | “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” | famous_quote |
1,920 | “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.” | famous_quote |
2,093 | “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” | famous_quote |
617 | “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” | famous_quote |
2,309 | “Marriage can wait, education cannot.” | famous_quote |
175 | “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” | famous_quote |
1,189 | “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” | famous_quote |
841 | “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” | famous_quote |
369 | “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.” | famous_quote |
1,818 | “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” | famous_quote |
2,101 | “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” | 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 |
1,779 | “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” | famous_quote |
1,364 | “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” | famous_quote |
1,432 | “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” | famous_quote |
366 | “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” | famous_quote |
643 | “We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.” | famous_quote |
2,426 | “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” | famous_quote |
72 | “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” | famous_quote |
1,271 | “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” | famous_quote |
859 | “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” | famous_quote |
42 | “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” | famous_quote |
2,424 | “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” | famous_quote |
1,064 | “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” | famous_quote |
2,217 | “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.” | famous_quote |
2,259 | “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.” | famous_quote |
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