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1,150 | “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” | 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 |
1,012 | “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” | famous_quote |
1,664 | “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.” | famous_quote |
1,081 | “Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.” | famous_quote |
633 | “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” | famous_quote |
512 | “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” | famous_quote |
1,119 | “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” | famous_quote |
1,141 | “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” | 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 |
487 | “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” | famous_quote |
896 | “Can I help you with something?"Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.” | famous_quote |
1,212 | “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now” | famous_quote |
703 | “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” | famous_quote |
1,470 | “love the life you live.live the life you love.” | 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 |
2,294 | “Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!â€� I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one."That’s what I was supposed to say. . .â€� he gasped out.Those were his last words.” | famous_quote |
153 | “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” | famous_quote |
1,679 | “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” | famous_quote |
996 | “That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence” | 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 |
1,092 | “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” | famous_quote |
1,008 | “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” | famous_quote |
2,141 | “Hope is a waking dream.” | famous_quote |
1,773 | “I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.” | famous_quote |
957 | “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” | famous_quote |
452 | “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.” | famous_quote |
1,227 | “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” | famous_quote |
2,265 | “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.” | famous_quote |
2,479 | “It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.” | famous_quote |
2,388 | “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!” | famous_quote |
550 | “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” | famous_quote |
1,635 | “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” | famous_quote |
1,312 | “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.” | famous_quote |
1,757 | “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” | famous_quote |
356 | “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.” | famous_quote |
2,070 | “You’re dangerous,â€� he says.“Why?â€�“Because you make me believe in the impossible” | famous_quote |
1,785 | “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” | famous_quote |
1,781 | “No one has ever become poor by giving.” | famous_quote |
2,489 | “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” | famous_quote |
1,631 | “Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.” | famous_quote |
1,015 | “Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” | 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 |
515 | “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” | famous_quote |
335 | “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""Yes.""Have a biscuit, Potter.” | famous_quote |
1,782 | “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.” | 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 |
496 | “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” | 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 |
2,207 | “I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door” | famous_quote |
851 | “He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back.” | 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 |
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 |
2,427 | “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” | famous_quote |
1,568 | “I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.” | famous_quote |
956 | “What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.” | famous_quote |
1,636 | “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” | famous_quote |
1,291 | “To say goodbye is to die a little.” | famous_quote |
1,440 | “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” | famous_quote |
1,191 | “I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” | famous_quote |
1,066 | “Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final” | famous_quote |
284 | “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” | famous_quote |
2,444 | “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” | famous_quote |
11 | “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” | famous_quote |
1,630 | “All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!” | famous_quote |
753 | “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” | famous_quote |
2,082 | “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” | famous_quote |
89 | “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” | famous_quote |
775 | “We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.â€�I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.” | 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 |
417 | “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” | famous_quote |
114 | “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” | famous_quote |
616 | “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.” | famous_quote |
825 | “It kills me sometimes, how people die.” | famous_quote |
1,649 | “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” | famous_quote |
1,516 | “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” | famous_quote |
412 | “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” | famous_quote |
728 | “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” | famous_quote |
675 | “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” | famous_quote |
1,892 | “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” | famous_quote |
2,504 | “Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it” | famous_quote |
2,239 | “You’ll get over it…â€� It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘itâ€� is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” | famous_quote |
1,122 | “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” | famous_quote |
1,571 | “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” | famous_quote |
977 | “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” | famous_quote |
1,008 | “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” | famous_quote |
2,143 | “to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.” | 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 |
36 | “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” | famous_quote |
1,548 | “So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that.""Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.""I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.” | famous_quote |
2,326 | “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.” | famous_quote |
2,264 | “How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond. "How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks. "You were asleep, too?" "Until you began drooling on my shoulder.” | famous_quote |
872 | “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” | famous_quote |
1,821 | “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?â€� I say.“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,â€� he says.“You should wake me,â€� I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,â€� he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.” | famous_quote |
1,296 | “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” | famous_quote |
2,109 | “I don't go out with strangers," I said."Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.” | 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 |
1,903 | “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” | famous_quote |
728 | “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” | 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 |
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