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You're looking for the light,ForgettingYou have an astonishing light,inside you,which can enlighten the whole world.
— Debasish Mridha
The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?""Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it.""Small world," said Coraline."It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spider's webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
For this cause…for this privilege…you were born—to shine lights into the world for God.
— Elizabeth George, Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart
Encourage yourself that you are good enough to be the owner of your own storehouse. Colour your world
—  redesign your mental pictures about yourself! Dream big and manifest the dreams!
The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.
— Kathryn Davis, Duplex
Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.
— Tad Williams, Otherland 1 - 4 Boxed Set
The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Our identity in the world is like a wave from the Ocean.
— Kishore Bansal
The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.
— Beth Moore Jones, Promises in the Dark
Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered this human experience, it was clear there was a world waiting to be discovered, creatures which were there for our interaction. And the spark inside us often has to be spoken to, to be touched by the soul of another. It’s as if the spark is only visible through the lens of night vision, a set of goggles which only another human being can hand to us.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
Money makes the world go round; however, happiness greases the axle. Without this lubricant, life will seize.
— Paul Van Der Merwe
In a world of increasing complexity, the simple man walks alone. Knowing his ways are not of the world. Refusing to complicate and confuse those things which he knows to be true. Love is that which he seeks. Fear he flings aside. To stand tall before his creator and know that he is blessed beyond measure.
— Sean Fairburn
Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.
— Yuri Boganov
Why are you so scared and creeping around,taking photographs all over town,pictures in the dark that live in the light,the world is my playground too and I’ll do what I like.
— Archive
In Italy there are about 60 million people and we know howhigh is the percentage of morons on national soil. However, inChina there are about 1.4 billion people and in India almost 1.3billion. Therefore I wonder then, if more or less all the world isa small village, with how many morons should we have to cometo terms on the territory of this stupid planet. It's the same theworld over, or the world is the same wherever you go!
— Carl William Brown, L'Italia in breve.
The world is not your enemy
—  you are.
For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
— Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway...
— Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1
Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.
— Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams
There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson
— Taylor Swift
At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.
— Taylor Swift
Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.
— Taylor Swift
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
— C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks."I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
— Veronica Roth
winners see the gain
—  losers see the pain.
If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing.
— Taylor Swift
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
— Taylor Swift
Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.
— Taylor Swift
There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life – and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.
— Taylor Swift
If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.
— Taylor Swift
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
— Marilyn Manson
Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
— Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind.  An that's fine. That's right. That's how it's meant to be.
— Moira Young, Blood Red Road
Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?
— Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
I don’t want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now I’m none of those things, and I’m a human who has scary visions and don’t know what to do about any of it.
— Kristin Cast, Untamed
You’re going to tell me that last night shouldn’t have happened.”No. I’m glad it happened. For too long, I’ve been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me. But I’m not in love with you.
— Claudia Gray, Stargazer
Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.
— Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Those who have trusted where they ought not,will surely mistrust where they ought not."-Marie von Ebnuer-Eschenbach
— Aleatha Romig, Convicted
I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.
— George Lucas
I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.
— Kami Garcia
HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment
— Jim Butcher, Storm Front
the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.
— George Gordon Byron
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
— Vanna Bonta, Degrees: Thought Capsules
all theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believe but believe is agraveyard. we have narrowed it down tothe butcherknife and themockingbird wish usluck.
— Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
All across the country, people felt it was the wrong thing. All across the country, people felt it was the right thing. All across the country, people felt they'd really lost. All across the country, people felt they'd really won. All across the country, people felt they'd done the right thing and other people had done the wrong thing. All across the country, people looked up Google: what is EU? All across the country, people looked up Google: move to Scotland. All across the country, people looked up Google: Irish Passport Applications. All across the country, people called each other cunts. All across the country, people felt unsafe. All across the country, people were laughing their heads off. All across the country, people felt legitimised. All across the country, people felt bereaved and shocked. All across the country, people felt righteous. All across the country, people felt sick. All across the country, people felt history at their shoulder. All across the country, people felt history meant nothing. All across the country, people felt like they counted for nothing. All across the country, people had pinned their hopes on it. All across the country, people waved flags in the rain. All across the country, people drew swastika graffiti. All across the country, people threatened other people. All across the country, people told people to leave. All across the country, the media was insane. All across the country, politicians lied. All across the country, politicians fell apart. All across the country, politicians vanished...
— Ali Smith, Autumn
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't makeit through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'llmake a door. Something terrific will come no matter how darkthe present.
— Joan Rivers
Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven.
— Robert M. Roberts
Always stand up for what you believe in…even if it means standing alone.
— Kim Hanks
You wearing a thigh sheath?”“Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs.
— Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." Samuel Johnson 
— Samuel Johnson
For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.
— Ana Monnar
I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.
— James Kidd
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
I know a lie when I hear one.
— Adrian Mitchell
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?
— Roman Payne
A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
— William Wordsworth
I just had his hand in a vise,” I protested indignantly. “It wasn’t like I had a dagger in his ribs. ‘Hand in a vise’ is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. ‘Dagger in the ribs’ is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference.
— Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical
Mychael said the rock’s not affecting you, and from what I’m seeing I’m inclined to agree.”“I beg to differ.”“Feeling evil?” Justinius asked.“No.”“Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?”“No and no.”“Take over the world?”“Too much work.
— Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical
He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
— Antonio Porchia, Voices
Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.
— Ana Monnar
Just remember, we're all in this alone.
— Lily Tomlin
Mychael Eiliesor. Guardian paladin, sacred protector, master spellsinger, fashion consultant.
— Lisa Shearin, Magic Lost, Trouble Found
The nurse snorted, and said. “All men are pigs.” “Not all men.” Jango said. “Some of the men are zombies.
— Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem
I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it is all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but...
— Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other."He's right. We did.The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.
— Suzanne Collins
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.
— Osho
I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.Finally, my wings begin to falter, I lose height, and gravity pulls me into a foamy sea the color of Finnick's eyes. I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. When I am adrift and unable to navigate, that's when they come. The dead.The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat."No, Katniss! No! You can't go!"But the ones I hated are winning, and if she clings to me, she'll be lost as well. "Prim, let go!" And finally she does.
— Suzanne Collins
Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.
— Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss
We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Nope, you stick out like a fart in a church.
— James Patterson, The Final Warning
enjoying life should be of much greater concern than understanding it.
— Will Fetters, Memoirs
I've never heard of a man's cock being described as a fang before. - Rapahel
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me.Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips.
— Suzanne Collins
Writers do not find subjects
—  subjects find them.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
— Paul Rand
Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.
— Ana Monnar
People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know — and that with difficulty.
— John Christopher, Sweeney's Island
The more you believe in yourself, the more the world believes in you!
— Isa Zapata
The days that followed passed slowly. I lay in my hotel room and watched the kind of strange European TV that would probably make perfect sense if I understood the language, but because I didn’t, the programs just seemed dreamlike and baffling. In one studio show a group of Scandinavian academics watched as one of them poured liquid plastic into a bucket of cold water. It solidified, they pulled it out, handed it around the circle, and, as far as I could tell, intellectualized on its random misshapenness. I phoned home but my wife didn’t answer. It crossed my mind that she might be dead. I panicked. Then it turned out that she wasn’t dead. She had just been at the shops.
— Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.
— Kristen Simmons, Breaking Point
Never live what you see. Never follow what you know.
— Lissette E. Manning
Never say no to coffee
— M. Cesar
Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
The best promises forever seem to be made by amnesiacs.
— Chris Gould
Saturday is a day for the spa. RELAX, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.
— Ana Monnar, Relax: New and Selected Poems
The end must justify the means.
— Matthew Prior
Brush strokes write poetry harmonized through the cords of an artist's imagination.Color, contrast, simple compassion splattered across paper leaves tainted with the melody of the silent wind.Gasping, grasping, simply glancing at the souls of those who were not blessed with the visionary sight of inspirational artistry.
— Laura S. Al Bast
If you tell a person about paradise,It becomes a dream.If you show a person paradise,It becomes a goal!
— Gabriel Madison
Adventure lies not in the places we seek, but in the moments we create in the places we treasure.
— Rochelle Carr
We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.
— Saleem Durrani
It's a blip, not a catastrophe.
— Donald J. Trump
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry
— Bob Dylan
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.
— Laura Bush
I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of them. She passed most evenings befriending men who had tried to date-rape her in high school, but I was still stuck in the last virtual community, a sad place to be, like Europe, say, during the Black Death. Whenever I cruised this site, with its favorites lists and its paeans to somebody’s cousin’s gas station art gallery, I could not help but think of medieval corpses in the spring-thaw mud, buboes sprouted in every armpit and anus, black bile curling out of frozen mouths. Those of us still cursed with life wandered the blasted dales of this stricken network, wept and moaned and flogged ourselves with frayed AC adaptors, called out for God to strike us dead, or else let us find somebody who liked similar bands.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Don't play any game if you don't understand the rules no matter how nice winners trophy looks like
— Sonja Smolec
If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.
— Betty Dravis, The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley
If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.
— Alexander Pope
Life is such a journey on a sea of constant waves and splashing desires.
— Nadina Boun
Making the ungrateful grateful is a tedious endeavor.
— Ana Monnar
They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Talk about turning lemons into lemonade!
— Catherine Hapka, Something Borrowed
If doesn't kill you outright, it just puts you into intensive care for months.
— Philip Chen, Falling Star
You can't become a star just by watching one on TV. Dream big and go for your goals!
— Koltn Burbank
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy — the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial — carved into the heart of Chaos. We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won." ~Justicar Alaric
— Ben Counter
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
— David Leavitt
Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or trifle with me! I possess but one tooth, oh, yes, for the rest were buried long ago in the flesh of sinners.Behold my jaws, upper and lower in righteous, symmetrical poverty.Move not, man of clocks, and heed my mistress, for she cherishes me, even in my foul old age.
— Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker
I heard from clear across the city, over the Hudson in the Jersey yards, one fierce whistle of a locomotive which took me to a train late at night hurling through the middle of the West, its iron shriek blighting the darkness. One hundred years before, some first trains had torn through the prairie and their warning had congealed the nerve. "Beware," said the sound. "Freeze in your route. Behind this machine comes a century of maniacs and a heat which looks to consume the earth." What a rustling those first animals must have known.
— Norman Mailer, An American Dream
Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need
— Hui Hai, Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening
True ninjas are always outnumbered, because they are individuals.
— Jarius Raphel
When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If you choose to spend an hour every day tinkering with your Facebook profile, or if you don’t see any difference between reading Jane Austen on a Kindle and reading her on a printed page, or if you think Grand Theft Auto IV is the greatest Gesamtkunstwerk since Wagner, I’m very happy for you, as long as you keep it to yourself.
— Jonathan Franzen
Almost two hundred sixty-six years ago on my home world, Earth, my forefathers did the same thing. They declared their independence and free agency from an enemy that oppressed them. No one at that time expected this rebellion force to win the war. They were severely outnumbered, and they were extremely inexperienced compared to their enemy. Despite those odds, they succeeded in winning the war, giving them their independence and freewill to choose. (Adrian Palmer, Worlds Without End: The Mission)
— Shaun Messick
The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.
— Glen McDiarmid
Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful.
— Nikki Rowe
eat whatever you meet along the way.If you come late don't eat but wack yours with hers.
— christian Thogolith
My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.
— Danabelle Gutierrez, & Until The Dreams Come
Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?
— Ana Monnar
Accursed be he that first invented war.
— Christopher Marlowe
You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
God's codpiece, you're very kind
— Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Life Is, a Rose.
— Ana Monnar
I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you’re going to be. — It puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?
— Ivana Hruba
We’d been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate down. We leaned up against the wall of a bank and I could feel the cool stone on my back, the billions of dollars thrumming through wires beneath and behind me, or on the night waves above. I wasn’t quite sure how they traveled. Or how much they got out anymore.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Oh, do you, Milo? You’re so selfish. You don’t see the bigger picture.” “What’s the bigger picture?” “You’re still here looking for handouts. Who’s going to take care of me?” “I’m on my knees here, Mom. Not for me, for my family. For my wife. For a beautiful grandson you have totally ignored.” “He’s kind of a brat. I’ll be in his life when he gets a little impulse control.” “He’s not even four.” “I have needs. I’m tired of this child-worshipping culture. You’re just a slave to it, Milo.” “I’m only trying to be a decent dad.” “Don’t waste your time. It’s not in your genes. Besides, try making some money. That might be a good dad move. For heaven’s sake, the system’s rigged for white men and you still can’t tap in.” “You’re right, Mom. What can I say? But still, it would mean a lot to me if you made a little more of an effort with Bernie.” “Bernie schmernie. This is my decade.” “Okay, you wrinkled old spidercunt, have it your way.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Yes,” said Cooley. “That is the question, as the Bard might say.” “The Bard?” “What’s so funny?” said Cooley. “Nothing, sir,” I said. “I just didn’t know people still used that term.” “Well, I’m a people, Burke. Am I not?” “Of course.” “If you prick me, do I not bleed, you scat-gobbling, mother-rimming prick?” Occasionally Dean Cooley reverted to a vocabulary more suited to his marine years, but some maintained it was only when he felt threatened, or stretched for time. “Yes, sir,” I said.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Fuck,” said Bernie. “Fuckwinky eyeballhead.” “No, Bernie. We don’t use those words.” “Which words?” “You know which words.” “You used them, Daddy.” “I made a mistake. I am sorry I said that word. It isn’t helping with our problem.” “What’s our problem?” “There may be no school today.” “That’s okay,” said Bernie. “It’ll be okay.” We weren’t sure where he had picked up that becalming phrase, probably from us, as we tried to talk ourselves out of the awful lucidity certain days afforded. The whole mirthless dwindle of things would suddenly pull into focus, the crabbed, moneyless exhaustion that stood in for our lives, and Maura and I would both start the chatter, the cheap pep: It’s okay, it’s going to be okay, we’ll get through this. When Bernie repeated these bromides, he sounded seventy years old. It broke your heart, as did about forty-three percent of the things Bernie said and did. About twenty-seven percent of the things he said and did made you want to scream and banish him to his childproofed room, or do much more heinous and ingenious things, just so he’d get the point, whatever the point could be with an almost-four-year-old, but still, to bury him alive and then save him at the last minute, or tell him that the state had passed a law against ice cream and he would go to prison if he even thought about it, because they now had the technology to detect illegal mint-chocolate-chip cogitation, had, in fact, the chips for it, seemed, if not conducive to his development, at least on some level deserved. Thirty percent of what Bernie said and did was either on the bubble or else utterly inscrutable, just the jolts and stutters of a factory-fresh brain working out the kinks.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the name shufflers, done my duty. I thought about that moment later on. Maybe I got extratuned to the concept of bitchhood once I became Purdy’s, though I must confess I’ve always found such usage of the term for female dogs distasteful. My mother was a second-wave feminist. I wasn’t comfortable saying “cunt” until I was twenty-three, at which point, admittedly, I couldn’t hold back for a time.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
You said you were having a dream.” “It’s true, I did.” “Was it the one where you’re inside the girl and you are pumping her and pumping her and you are so happy but then it turns out it’s not a girl, it’s really one of those super poisonous box jellyfish, and it stings you and you are screaming and screaming and the sky rains the diarrhea of babies?” “The . . . no, I don’t think so.” “I get that sometimes. Anyway, see you around.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.
— Amanda L. Moritz, Called to Midnight
They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining symbolic power with each scene.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
You chose love and you lost.
— Timothy Joshua
Dying's a bitch, and I would know.
— Kyoko M., Back to Black
It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due
— Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
You’ve always been a stormYour lightning mouthElectrifies my heart
— Holly Ducarte, Confetti Confessions: Thoughtful micro poetry on matters of the heart, life, and nature
She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak, are all within the palm of her hand
— Holly Ducarte, Hiding Bones: The Best Poetry of Hiding Skeletons & Literary Bones
My nine-month journey through this room I would describe as one of trauma, rage and deceit, all topped off with a splash of human bonding.
— Vicki Perry, The Chat Room
My two worlds were colliding and the friction of this set fire to my life. It was time to roast some wieners.
— Vicki Perry, The Chat Room
Some people follow. Some people lead. Some kick back and smoke some weed… and breathe.
— Vicki Perry, The Chat Room
As soon as her heart stopped beating, Brad collapsed to the floor beside her bed. His body had succumbed to the trauma and his heart stopped. He joined his wife, his true love on the other side. The chat room was shaken to its core.
— Vicki Perry, The Chat Room
But I find it strange that her excitement over a new child in her life was so explosive, so vivid and yet there is nothing in terms of photos shared and the cute stories of milestones accomplished in a child’s life.
— Vicki Perry, The Chat Room
Are you thinking what i'm thinking, That you thinked that i Thinked, That you could think what i may think in the future? You may think what i think?May our problem is think to much? Or thinking is an addiction? Funny think..
— NewArtOfUniverse
If you worry yourself to death over the struggle, you will never experience the good life.
— Kelly L. Miller
Your words can only act like the path. It is your actions that define your destiny.
— Trishna Damodar
As rice grows riper, the lower it bows its head. Never lose your humility while you grow.
— Jimvirle/Jinvirle
Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.
— B. Devine, Unconquered
THEY WILL TRY TO TELL YOU THAT YOU’RE MADE UP OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES.THEY DON’T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT YOU. YOU’RE MADE UP OF POETRY, LOVE AND SOLACE AND ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL LONELY THINGS THAT MAKE THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE.
— Vanshika Dhyani
For some women, they need a man. For others, men need them.
— Nikki Rowe
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? "What has this god of yours ever really done for you?" She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. "Everything.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
Writing is the only way to change the world without leaving bed.
— Lenang Manggala, Founder Gerakan Menulis Buku Indonesia
I give away examples!
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm towards you or anyone else. Like I said before, a policeman's job is to protect people. And if they can't, that's an issue for the officer. But for now, don't worry about it.
— Simi Sunny, The White Sirens
I can’t!” Maggie was now standing on the wall. “Past the boundary wall is a bad place. I’m not allowed in the bad place.
— Sian B. Claven, Ensnared
Raven shook her head more violently and opened her mouth, a loud shriek filled the room and Amari realised what was about to happen, she ducked down and wrapped her arms around her head, just as the mirror shattered over her
— Sian B. Claven, Ensnared
Everything was bright and white, even in the night.
— Basma Salem, The Art Of Black
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.
— Buddhist proverb
Stop making excuses for other people. For why they do certain things. For how they treat people or how they treat you. Giving excuse and justifcation gives defense which lets them act however they want. It allows them because you tolerated it. Don’t accept less than what you’re worth because you’re worth a lot.
— Dominic Riccitello
It wasn’t good. It was good in the beginning and I held on to that.
— Dominic Riccitello
Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you.
— Dominic Riccitello
The beauty was nothing made sense. We were complex. We were intricate. We were designed with flaws which seemed to make everything perfect. But the defining word is seem. We don’t see what’s in front of us until it’s away from us. Until it’s behind us. Until it doesn’t bother us. Sometimes things aren’t perfect, yet they appear to be. Sometimes life doesn’t make sense until it does. But it always does.
— Dominic Riccitello
We love certain people until death. We love others until we don’t. And sometimes we never fell in love in the first place. Falling in love isn’t necessary. Building character, life experience, development, and self-love: those are important. People get lost in the idea of affection for another person that they completely disregard themselves. That’s dangerous. Life isn’t about building something with someone. Life is about building something for yourself, but if someone comes along and they align, you share it with them.
— Dominic Riccitello
We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.
— Dominic Riccitello
When is it too right but too wrong to be right?
— Dominic Riccitello
You were a rhyme who mattered, a being who slipped all too often.
— Dominic Riccitello
Not every relationship is meant to last. Some are there to create an impact on your life. Relationships that last three months are just as important as ones that last a lifetime.
— Dominic Riccitello
I stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn’t for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it.
— Dominic Riccitello
Life isn’t about building something with someone else. It’s about building something for a cause greater than yourself, but if someone comes along and they’re worthy enough, we let them build with us.
— Dominic Riccitello
running with sharp knivesnever got me so farbut running with youseemed lovely
— Dominic Riccitello
I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets.
— Dominic Riccitello
How you react to a situation says more about you than you know.
— Dominic Riccitello
Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
You only spoke a single line,yet it felt like a life sentence.
— Timothy Joshua
There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.
— Simi Sunny
Just fuck me up.A caffeine-addict placing an order with the barista.
— Julie Johnson
Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only does the chief won't feel any uncertainty on Anthony and I, but the spirits of the victims can move on. It sounds silly to believe that the undead is still around, but it is the truth. And since I have a good heart, I must use it.
— Simi Sunny, The White Sirens
I don’t mind my friends calling me 'Thornes,' but the fact of people calling me 'Prickly Thornes' draws the line.
— Simi Sunny, The White Sirens
Honesty is overrated. As someone once said, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the heart.'""It was the Duc de Richelieu," said Lillian, who had read the same book of philosophy during their schoolroom lessons. "And the accurate quote is, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.'""He was French, though," Daisy argued. "I'm sure he meant the heart as well."Lillian laughed and glanced at her sister affectionately. "Perhaps he did. But I don't want to keep secrets from Lord Westcliff.""Oh, very well. But heed my words- it wouldn't be a true love affair if you didn't have a few little secrets.
— Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn
If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.
— John    Hennessy
When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small?
— Emem Uko
So what if I fall? I know I will never fallas hard as i fell for you.
— Timothy Joshua
Sometimes you find a lie, and sometimes it finds you.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
Fighting is not a man thing, it's a human thing.
— Ronda Rousey
We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“But we were too dumb to see it,” she snaps. “That was our mistake.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
My mind is like a seaYou will only drown, If you think you can swimThere are things that devours me, No love can ever save me.
— J. Limbu
Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.
— Epicurus, The Art of Happiness
The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.
— Epicurus, The Art of Happiness
Be a man! Put on a mask.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Well, love exists even you are muted and one another is blind
— DreamingYou
There is nothing better,than sleeping and dreaming beside you —It's like having a dream within a dream.
— Timothy Joshua
It is no shame to have your heart broken –it is only possible because you dared to lovethe hardest.
— Timothy Joshua
I watched you undress. Shame on you!
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Who am I to judge me?
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
The apartments had probably been built back in the 70’s when the country was going through some ugly social times. Maybe the country was going through its adolescent phase and breaking out with a bad case of social acne. Cheesy professors were running around the country proclaiming “turn on, tune in, drop out.” A mean-spirited drunk from LA was cranking out poems about the low-life and reaching for another beer out of the refrigerator on stage as part of his performance. The porn industry was in its golden era. People proclaiming their individuality and uniqueness were all dressed the same. Mothers thought they were educating their kids by letting them watch Sesame Street, but they were just turning their kids into TV junkies and a future generation of pudding heads with blank faces ready to believe anything on the lamestream media. The Vietnam War eventually came to an end after Laos was clustered bombed, which had nothing to do with ending the war. Dominoes didn’t fall. A new war memorial went out for bid. Some crazy scientist found a way to make clothes out of chemicals - polyester. Dwarfs found their favorite hangout - the disco. The whole country seemed to be dancing to the disco beat, hypnotized by the flashing strobe lights off the big, shiny ball.
— Robert Hobkirk, Tommy in the Promised Land
Let not a single soul discharge you, because we are a group of beautiful people...and you two are richer, with greater potential than this soil.
— Curtis W. Jackson, Waiting for Regina
...that society with its hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed.
— Curtis W. Jackson, Waiting for Regina
Pluviophile -I remember how we began –you smiling,me falling,like the rain.
— Timothy Joshua
We forget our greatness,when we measure ourselves against the world...We compete and compare so muchwe forget what we are destined for.....
— Isiphile Petse
While the man is putting on it's shoes, the woman can buy dozens of high heels.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
A quote has an even more powerful effect if we presume not just a particular author behind it, but God, nature, the unconscious, labor, or difference. These are strong fetishes, each conjuring the powerful submedial in a particular way. Yet all of them must nonetheless be exchanged in a certain rhythm according to the laws of the medial economy. In order to create such fetishes, one does not have to use brilliant quotes by famous authors but can use anonymous quotes that stem from the author- less realm of the everyday, lowly, foreign, vulgar, aggressive, or stupid. Precisely such quotes produce the effect of medial sincerity, that is, the revelation of a deeply submerged, hidden, medial plane on the familiar medial surface. It then appears as if this surface had been blasted open from the inside and that the respective quotes had sprung forth from the submedial interior—like aliens. All of this, of course, refers to the economy of the quote as a gift that can be offered, accepted, and reciprocated.
— Boris Groys, Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media
A man's primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children?
— Mario Puzo, The Last Don
An author who integrates alien signs into the medial surface of his own texts—signs behind which we presume the existence of other powerful, submedial subjects “as authors”—does not increase the comprehensibility of that text. Yet nonetheless, he increases the magical effectiveness this text exudes. Such quotations lead us to presume that the text houses a dangerous, manipulative subject, a magician with enough power to manipulate the signs of other powerful magicians and able to use them strategically for his own purposes. Thus an author who quotes alien signs conveys a stronger impression of powerful authorship than one who ad- vocates precisely his so-called own ideas—which do not interest anybody precisely because they are only his own. It is also well known that one may not quote the same author too often, in which case quoting gradu- ally looses its magical power and begins to irritate the reader. The reason for this gradual decrease of a quote’s magical effectiveness is that it looses its strangeness over time and gets integrated into the medial surface of a text, thereby becoming a proper part of it. In order to maintain their magical effect, quotes have to be exchanged constantly so as to continue to maintain the same appearance of foreignness and freshness. The quote functions as a magical fetish that lends the entire text a hidden, submedial power beyond its superficial meaning.
— Boris Groys, Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media
The old me is sure making things difficult for the current me.
— Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Two
disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.
— Nikki Rowe
Valuing your LIFE, what do you believe in? In the destination or in YOU?
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
It was who they were, and it was who they always would be. They would remain forever in lust and forever in love, for theirs was a love that transcended body and mind. Theirs was a love of the soul.--Mistletoe (2012) by Lyn Gardner
— Lyn Gardner
They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness.
— Peadar Ó Guilín, The Call
The simple act of caring is heroic.
— Edward Albert
Life is like a train going in circles, the train is comfortable - it has nice scenery, it provides warmth and food & for most a loving atmosphere. Most of the people stay on the train there entire lives, maybe every now and again they may peep out the door, some might even get off only to quickly realise they want back on. Then you have the rare ones who I aspire to be, those who are bored of the train - to them - the thought of living without it, is risky but the reward of tasting life outside of doors and walls excite them enough to try.
— Nikki Rowe