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“You used to be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that guy in the corner in orange safety pants holding a protest sign and wearing a top hat is mentally disabled or he is the coolest fucking guy you will ever know.”
― Chuck Klosterman
― Chuck Klosterman
“Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.
"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine
“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
“If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . .
If we can forgive what we’ve done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
If we can forgive what we’ve done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“Hermione seemed cheery too, though when asked what she was grinning about she simply said, "It's a nice day." Neither of them seemed to have noticed that a fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain
She's Ron's sister.
But she's ditched Dean!
She's still Ron's sister.
I'm his best mate!
That'll make it worse.
If I talked to him first-
He'd hit you.
What if I don't care?
He's your best mate!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
She's Ron's sister.
But she's ditched Dean!
She's still Ron's sister.
I'm his best mate!
That'll make it worse.
If I talked to him first-
He'd hit you.
What if I don't care?
He's your best mate!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche
“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.”
― Gail Carriger
― Gail Carriger
“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”
― Emily Dickinson
― Emily Dickinson
“The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 1: Strawberry and the Soul Reapers
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 1: Strawberry and the Soul Reapers
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
― Charles Chaplin
― Charles Chaplin
“Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
“أنا شاب لكن عمري ألف عام
وحيد لكن بين ضلوعي زحام
خايف و لكن خوفي مني أنا
أخرس و لكن قلبي مليان كلام
عجبي !!”
― صلاح جاهين
وحيد لكن بين ضلوعي زحام
خايف و لكن خوفي مني أنا
أخرس و لكن قلبي مليان كلام
عجبي !!”
― صلاح جاهين
“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
― Umberto Eco
― Umberto Eco
“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
― Flannery O'Connor
― Flannery O'Connor
“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.”
― Kurt Cobain
― Kurt Cobain
“Friendship is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth.”
― Jack Handey
― Jack Handey
“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
― Jean-Paul Sartre
“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
― Rita Mae Brown
― Rita Mae Brown
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. ”
― William Faulkner
― William Faulkner
“He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
“الثقة بالله أزكى أمل ، والتوكل عليه أوفى عمل”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي
“In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.
”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud
― Sigmund Freud
“I saw him do a No More Potatoes Dance, after he saw me stuff the last of the mashed potatoes in my pocket.
”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
“If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.”
― James Patterson, Fang
― James Patterson, Fang
“Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns
― John Green, Paper Towns
“I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!!”
― Gerard Way
― Gerard Way
“Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou
― Maya Angelou
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
― Philip K. Dick
― Philip K. Dick
“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”
― Steven Wright
― Steven Wright
“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto
― Banana Yoshimoto
“I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry.
"That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible."
"Did the psychic think so?”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
"That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible."
"Did the psychic think so?”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
“If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? ”
― George Carlin
― George Carlin
“مش كل مره هتتعب فيها هتوصل للى انت عايزه .. بس عمرك ما هتوصل للى انت عايزه من غير ما تتعب ..”
― عمر طاهر, كابتن مصر: ألبوم ساخر للمراهقين
― عمر طاهر, كابتن مصر: ألبوم ساخر للمراهقين
“Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”
― Ellen Hopkins
― Ellen Hopkins
“And as for the Lightwoods," Simon said, "it's not that I like them that much. I mean, I like Isabelle, and I sort of like Alec and Jace, too. But there's this girl. And Jace is her brother."
When Samuel replied, he sounded, for the first time genuinely amused. "Isn't there always a girl.”
― Cassandra Clare
When Samuel replied, he sounded, for the first time genuinely amused. "Isn't there always a girl.”
― Cassandra Clare
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