January 2012
57 posts
“You think I needed you? You don’t think I could have given Myrna Mountweazel a...”
– John Green, Paper Towns
“You run the risk of losing anyone who is worth spending time with, unless you...”
– High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (via check-your-pockets-chimney-child)
“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them...”
– Richard Bach (via myquotelibrary)
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“That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upword glance. Not a...”
– Ayn Rand-
The Fountainhead
(via theotherlittle)
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
– Ayn Rand (via thelittleyellowdiary)
“To hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I...”
– Anais Nin (via camp-n-kitsch)
“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
– Anaïs Nin (via animapersa)
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“@MikeBloomberg says he doesn’t understand how Blair could marry the prince “when...”
– Mike Grynbaum. Ladies and gentlemen, Mayor Bloomberg ships Chuck and Blair. (via signaturescarf)
@Blizi: BOOM. =))
Barney: We both like scotch. We're both awesome.
Robin: Maybe that's the problem. Maybe there's just too much awesome here.
Barney: Yes. Two awesomes cancel each other out. I'm tired of being canceled out.
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“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via theskeletonofme)
On Public Relations: Hierarchy of Book... →
paulbogaards:
Hierarchy of Book Publishing The Top 100 (circa 2012)
1). Brand-name authors (still)
Stephen King (since 1974)
John Grisham (1989)
Patricia Cornwell (1990)
Jodi Picoult (1992)
Nicholas Sparks (1996)
Jennifer Weiner (2001)
Etc.
2). Self-published authors with proven track…
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“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but the thought about...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via myquotelibrary)
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Unfinished
When I was young, I had been a serious kid. I took everything so seriously. I wanted to grow up fairly quickly. I suppose I always saw adults as people who have really got it together. They always seemed to be so sure of everything, so I really wanted to be like them. I was a pretty insecure kid. I had an older brother who was just the kind of person that everybody wanted to be friends with. He...
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“Once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Kafka on the Shore (via harukimurakami
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my quote library.: 1. Name the five wealthiest... →
myquotelibrary:
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. 2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners. 3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America. 4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. 5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress. 6….
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
– Mary Tyler Moore (via myquotelibrary)
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“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes...”
– Gerard Way (via myquotelibrary)
“…one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk,...”
– Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
misswallflower:
“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”
― Max Ehrmann
“If you never do anything, you never become anyone.”
– An Education (via myquotelibrary)
“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you’re the underdog.”
– Jenny Han (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
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“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and...”
– Alysha Speer (via myquotelibrary)
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“You should date an illiterate girl.
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in...”
– Charles Warnke (via sixteeth)
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character,...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via myquotelibrary)
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I’ve always had a Plan B. It’s what made it easier to move from one thing to another.
This is the first time I’d be going without one.
It’s scary. But I’m excited.
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my quote library.: The paradox of our time in... →
myquotelibrary:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but…
"Doesn't being scared let you know that you're on...
accordingtokenzierain:
HIMYM
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via myquotelibrary)
“It’s funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love while at the...”
– Ally McBeal (via myquotelibrary)