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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 |
1,854 | “Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets.Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.” | famous_quote |
566 | “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” | famous_quote |
2,418 | “I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. I will love you as a battlefield loves young men and as peppermints love your allergies, and I will love you as the banana peel loves the shoe of a man who was just struck by a shingle falling off a house. I will love you as a volunteer fire department loves rushing into burning buildings and as burning buildings love to chase them back out, and as a parachute loves to leave a blimp and as a blimp operator loves to chase after it.I will love you as a dagger loves a certain person’s back, and as a certain person loves to wear dagger proof tunics, and as a dagger proof tunic loves to go to a certain dry cleaning facility, and how a certain employee of a dry cleaning facility loves to stay up late with a pair of binoculars, watching a dagger factory for hours in the hopes of catching a burglar, and as a burglar loves sneaking up behind people with binoculars, suddenly realizing that she has left her dagger at home. I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp, and as a gasping person loves a glass of brandy to calm their nerves, and as a glass of brandy loves to shatter on the floor, and as the noise of glass shattering loves to make someone else gasp, and as someone else gasping loves a nearby desk to lean against, even if leaning against it presses a lever that loves to open a drawer and reveal a secret compartment. I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and until all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled.I will love you until every fire is extinguised and until every home is rebuilt from the handsomest and most susceptible of woods, and until every criminal is handcuffed by the laziest of policemen. I will love until M. hates snakes and J. hates grammar, and I will love you until C. realizes S. is not worthy of his love and N. realizes he is not worthy of the V. I will love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple, and until the apple hates a tree and the tree hates a nest, and until a bird hates a tree and an apple hates a nest, although honestly I cannot imagine that last occurrence no matter how hard I try. I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time, except for the clocks that people have forgotten to wind and the calendars that people have forgotten to place in a highly visible area. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively.I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, no matter where you avoid and who you don’t see, and no matter who sees you avoiding where you go. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this, and now matter how I am discovered after what happens to me as I am discovering this.” | famous_quote |
935 | “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” | famous_quote |
1,934 | “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.” | famous_quote |
1,332 | “The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.” | 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 |
2,360 | “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” | famous_quote |
116 | “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” | famous_quote |
936 | “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” | famous_quote |
574 | “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” | famous_quote |
2,291 | “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.” | famous_quote |
536 | “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” | 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 |
2,122 | “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” | famous_quote |
385 | “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” | famous_quote |
474 | “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” | 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 |
2,394 | “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” | famous_quote |
938 | “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” | famous_quote |
954 | “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” | famous_quote |
875 | “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” | famous_quote |
762 | “You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.” | famous_quote |
1,202 | “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” | 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 |
663 | “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” | 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 |
1,990 | “Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.” | famous_quote |
1,203 | “Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. "I can't believe you did it!" she exclaimed. "How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?""Traded him for Alec," Clary said.Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. "Not permanently?""No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back," he added thoughtfully. "In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy."Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out.""That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.” | famous_quote |
709 | “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” | famous_quote |
1,879 | “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” | famous_quote |
1,184 | “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” | famous_quote |
2,224 | “You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.” | famous_quote |
284 | “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” | famous_quote |
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1,002 | “Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.” | 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 |
2,203 | “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” | famous_quote |
1,492 | “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” | famous_quote |
966 | “Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” | famous_quote |
848 | “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” | famous_quote |
1,107 | “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” | famous_quote |
688 | “Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.” | famous_quote |
147 | “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” | famous_quote |
341 | “You are, and always have been, my dream.” | famous_quote |
1,086 | “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” | famous_quote |
1,724 | “It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.” | famous_quote |
1,383 | “I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.” | famous_quote |
326 | “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” | famous_quote |
1,792 | “A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?” | famous_quote |
1,759 | “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” | famous_quote |
989 | “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” | famous_quote |
2,262 | “The best way out is always through.” | famous_quote |
2,482 | “See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.” | famous_quote |
951 | “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” | famous_quote |
722 | “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” | famous_quote |
2,079 | “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.” | famous_quote |
2,332 | “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” | famous_quote |
428 | “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” | famous_quote |
1,500 | “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.” | famous_quote |
285 | “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” | famous_quote |
2,065 | “Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.""Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before."Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.” | famous_quote |
768 | “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” | famous_quote |
1,394 | “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” | famous_quote |
193 | “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” | famous_quote |
987 | “When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.” | famous_quote |
1,136 | “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” | famous_quote |
2,161 | “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” | famous_quote |
1,701 | “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” | famous_quote |
946 | “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” | famous_quote |
830 | “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” | famous_quote |
1,920 | “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.” | famous_quote |
54 | “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” | famous_quote |
799 | “You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” | famous_quote |
777 | “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” | famous_quote |
1,481 | “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” | famous_quote |
1,901 | “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” | famous_quote |
2,209 | “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” | famous_quote |
2,134 | “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.” | famous_quote |
54 | “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” | famous_quote |
1,823 | “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” | famous_quote |
1,201 | “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” | famous_quote |
832 | “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” | famous_quote |
312 | “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.” | famous_quote |
1,858 | “Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.” | famous_quote |
2,007 | “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.” | famous_quote |
2,006 | “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” | famous_quote |
2,490 | “if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.” | famous_quote |
1,790 | “Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.” | famous_quote |
327 | “Peace begins with a smile..” | famous_quote |
1,287 | “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.” | 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 |
1,111 | “Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.” | famous_quote |
1,311 | “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” | famous_quote |
451 | “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” | famous_quote |
1,523 | “Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.” | 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 |
181 | “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” | famous_quote |
909 | “We live for books.” | famous_quote |
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