Kireth's quotes

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"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

19 people liked it

"You can think clearly only with your clothes on."
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

tags: advice
9 people liked it

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories."
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

6 people liked it

"Faith is only a word, embroidered."
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

6 people liked it

"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

tags: future
6 people liked it

"But this is wrong, nobody dies from a lack of sex. It's a lack of love we die from. There's nobody here I can love, all the people I could love are dead or elsewhere. Who knows where they are or what their names are now? They might as well be nowhere, as I am for them. I too am a missing person."
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

3 people liked it

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

tags: inspirational, women
185 people liked it

"Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

tags: fitzgerald
39 people liked it

"Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

10 people liked it

"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

16 people liked it

"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

tags: love
8 people liked it

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

6 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
3,713 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
2,043 people liked it

"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: friendship, love, weakness
1,460 people liked it

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational
1,436 people liked it

"Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: adventure
474 people liked it

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: fear, unknown
358 people liked it

"'Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?' Harry interrupted again.

'So he can sneak up on people,' said Ron. 'Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: humor, sarcasm
307 people liked it

"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: ache, death, hurt, life, pain
299 people liked it

"I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: alice-cullen, humor
1,409 people liked it

"Before you Bella my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. .... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliance, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."
— Stephenie Meyer

1,921 people liked it

"Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overreact or anything but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free. My uterus is just going to come out between my legs and I'm going to look like I'm walking around with an enormous load in my pants."
— Meg Cabot (Big Boned)

tags: humor
30 people liked it

"It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. "
— Kevin Brooks (Lucas)

tags: loss, wisdom
6 people liked it

"Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them."
— Kevin Brooks (Lucas)

tags: wisdom
5 people liked it

"The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so...
I don't know.
Just so much."
— Kevin Brooks (Candy)

3 people liked it

"You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny."
— Brandon Sanderson (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians)

tags: humor, sarcasm
71 people liked it

"'We...we could be friends.'

'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.'"
— Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

tags: cats, friends, sarcasm
13 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,630 people liked it

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing
539 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing
476 people liked it

"Always be a poet, even in prose."
— Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing
157 people liked it

"Poems are never finished - just abandoned"
— Paul Valéry

tags: poem, writing
60 people liked it

"Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it is then discovered."
— Italo Calvino (1923 - 1985)

tags: writing
48 people liked it

"The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write:

too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming,

too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within,

too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again,

too many divorces to grant,

heirs to disinherit,

trysts to arrange,

letters to misdirect into evil hands,

innocent children to slay with rheumatic fever,

women to leave unfulfilled and hopeless,

men to drive to adultery and theft,

fires to ignite at the hearts of ancient houses. "
— Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys)

tags: writing
21 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,519 people liked it

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom
162 people liked it

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
— Phyllis Diller

tags: anger, funny, sleep
755 people liked it

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the library the sign says 'shut the fuck up!'"
— Rodney Dangerfield

tags: fuck, funny, humour, libraries, neighborhoods, profanity
397 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,848 people liked it

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

tags: friendship
1,286 people liked it

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship, inspirational
603 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,480 people liked it

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."
— John Keats

tags: music
76 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,357 people liked it