Holly's quotes

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"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."
— Ayn Rand

6 people liked it

"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

9 people liked it

"God owns heaven but He craves the earth." "
— Anne Sexton

9 people liked it

"Music is to the soul what words are to the mind."
— Modest Mouse (Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News)

tags: music
320 people liked it

"The point was fast, but it was too blunt to miss. Life handed us a paycheck, we said we worked harder than this."
— Modest Mouse

4 people liked it

"I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: reading
65 people liked it

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

tags: books, bookstore, towns
326 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,515 people liked it

"Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

15 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,901 people liked it

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: education, game-shows
121 people liked it

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
— William Butler Yeats (The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats)

tags: poems, poetry
36 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
2,965 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,652 people liked it

"Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine"
— Fiona Apple

7 people liked it

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
— Homer (The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica)

14 people liked it

"That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay."
— Rachel Caine (Glass Houses)

tags: humor
14 people liked it

"You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful."
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

tags: eric-northman, humor, romance, sookie-stackhouse, true-blood
145 people liked it

"There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

tags: love
129 people liked it

"I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

tags: love, secrets, trust
100 people liked it

"Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

23 people liked it

"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

42 people liked it

"But I don't think of you.
- Howard Roark"
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

12 people liked it

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: inspirational, life
590 people liked it

"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

"I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

"To shrug."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: philosophic, philosophy
125 people liked it

"Who is John Galt?"
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
72 people liked it

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
267 people liked it

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road: The Original Scroll)

104 people liked it

"We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
— Philip Pullman

tags: books, companionship, inspirational, religious
369 people liked it

"My arms are too short to box with God."
— Johnny Cash

tags: arms, boxing, god
39 people liked it

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

130 people liked it

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: truth
75 people liked it

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
— Stephen King

138 people liked it

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

tags: dark, horror, tower
166 people liked it

"Books may well be the only true magic."
— Alice Hoffman

tags: books
346 people liked it

"It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

44 people liked it

"People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?"
— Alice Hoffman (The Ice Queen)

25 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
3,710 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
2,934 people liked it

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: dreams, life
2,042 people liked it

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: happiness
1,601 people liked it

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: dumbledore
988 people liked it

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: mischief
902 people liked it

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: loss
617 people liked it

"A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: death, living
126 people liked it

"That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories)

tags: life, writing
97 people liked it

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
— Neil Gaiman

tags: writing
320 people liked it

"You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

141 people liked it

" "I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip."
"Hey, Gale," I say.
"Thought you'd be gone by now," He says.
My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble."
"Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)

34 people liked it