"With an effort Wilson left the shade and support of the doorway and, breathing hard, unscrewed the cap of the tank. In the sunlight his face was green."
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
"When I said you were a particular friend of Tom's, he started to abandon the whole idea. He doesn't know very much about Tom, though he says he's read a Chicago paper for years just on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy's name."
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
"'It was a strange coincidence,' I said.
'But it wasn't a coincidence at all.'
'Why not?'
'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.'"
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I felt as I never felt before. It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passsed forever when I could be a slave in fact."
- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
"He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so."
- 1984, George Orwell
"You're wrong, Aunt Josie, I thought. It's not pride I'm feeling. It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent, and hot. This one sits inside you quielty and eats you from the inside out like the trichina worms the pigs get. It's the Eighth Deadly Sin. The one God left out. Hope."
- Mattie, A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly
"I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."
- The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes
"'Daddy, you need more furniture.'
Yeah, well... if you got nothin', you don't need nothin'."
- Ennis Del Mar, Brokeback Mountain
"Tell you what. Truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it."
- Jack Twist, Brokeback Mountain
"I wish I knew how to quit you!"
- Jack Twist, Brokeback Mountain
"There ain't never enough time. There ain't ever enough."
- Jack Twist, Brokeback Mountain
"If you can't fix it, you've got to stand it."
- Ennis del Mar, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, it could be like this. Just like this, always."
- Jack Twist, Brokeback Mountain
"Next time you gamble, bet your own life."
- Mirage, The Incredibles
"No, call off the missiles! I'll do anything!"
"Abort, abort! There are children aboard. Say again, there are children aboard. Abort, abort!"
"NO!"
- The Incredibles
"I say if you do not support gay marrigae, then don't get one. Why is it that I am not allowed to marry a person of the same sex, though it harms no one, but a random stranger is allowed to smoke a cigarette in my presence, thus increasing my changes of lung cancer?"
- Progressive U
"Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant [by characterizing sincere people by calling them names], and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to is not likely to help your case."
- Francis Collins
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
-Theodor Geisel
"Ask just about anyone. They'll all tell you they're in favor of equal rights for homosexuals. Just name the situation, and ask. They'll all say, yes, gays should have the same rights in housing, jobs, public accomodations, and should have equal access to government benefits, equal protection of the law, etcetera, etcetera. Then you get to gay marriage. And that's when all this talk of equality stops dead cold."
- Scott Bidstrup
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"Black people have organizations that fight for black power, and the Jews look out for each other. But there isn't anyone except the Klan who will fight for the rights of white people."
- David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
- Adolf Hitler
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
- Ralph W. Sockman
"You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea."
- Medgar Evers
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
- Pastor Martin Niemoller
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
- Elie Wiesel
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The innocent and the beautiful
have no enemy but time."
- William Butler Yeats
"If God didn't exist, everything would be possible."
- Dostoievsky
"Hypocrisy is the prime charge that is always brought against [the British]. The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on."
- E.M. Forster
"In this country, you can hate, but you can't hurt."
- Jim Antenore
"How odd that everyone in the world can know you and yet you are still lonely."
- Jim Antenore
"Life and love is all about living and loving and knowing you might never get an answer, but hanging on because you still have that chance."
- Jayne Q.
"If only love were easy, and everyone was in it and it was with the right person. But if love were easy where would all our writers go, all our hope, and what would all our pennies thrown in wells and shooting stars be wished on? Love is never easy, and a few fleeting moments of blurred hair, a beautiful face, and a smile that defies everything is all that's needed to make us fall to our knees."
- Jayne Q.
"Society is so bent on telling the truth, but people don’t want to hear the truth."
- Jayne Q.
"There's hope and there's obsession, and you're veering towards the latter."
- Matt, A Love Born of Hate by Kae Ti
"Brave any thunderstorm, cause there's always a rainbow at the end."
- Sora, A Love Born of Hate by Kae Ti
"After all, it’s no sin to dream."
- Marth, Fubuki no Kaen: False Dawn by xan-vallen
"I have lost my heart to someone who does not want it."
- Twelve Days, DracOnyx
"I'll always be here, Malik. Until all the trees are stumps, all the rivers are dry, until the sun burns out in a fiery blast of final glory, I'll be here."
- Mariku, Inkyoku
"Why do you make me feel that being hated by you would still be better than being loved by anyone else?"
- Anon.
"She lies back on the bed and I do, too, and I want to cry because she’s so beautiful and I can’t have her."
- That Summor, by Mallory
"I cared, Marcus. More than I wanted to admit. Just remember that during those cold and lonely nights. I would have given you... everything."
- Oliver Wood, outside_leaky
"I don't want to mess everything up because you're confused and I'm weak and excessively hormonal. I don't want to - I don't want never to see you again because we did something sentimental when we were schoolboys and you can't imagine why you did it any more."
- Draco, Underwater Light by Maya
"It’s just... It’s hard for me... To see you so happy and to think that it has nothing to do with me."
- Draco, Love Me, Love Me Not by Blanche Malfoy
"So, we'll meet only once and soon. Marcus, you fool, don't you know that once will never be enough."
- Oliver, outside_leaky
"Nothing worthwhile in life is easy."
- outside_leaky
"I don't know what love is, girl, but this is probably as close as I'll ever get."
- Antonin Dolohov, outside_leaky
"Opposites attract, but they have a hard time staying together."
- the_leaky
"It was always much easier to hate an ugly man than it was a pretty one."
- the_leaky
"The amount of time one spends in this world isn't nearly as important as how that time is spent."
- Remus, Give or Take a Century by TheTreacleTart
"There is a price to pay for every desire."
- Boromir, From the Other River Bank by Dwimordene
"Forget about the future. Just today."
- Harry, Simply Charming by rurounihime
"It's better to be prepared for the worst; then when it happens, you will at least have the satisfaction of knowing you've foreseen it."
- Severus, Mine by Juxian Tang
"I don’t really want him back. I just miss the familiar, that’s all."
- Harry, Per Solum Lacuna: By Words Alone by Azhure and Wintermoon
“The world ends for everybody one day, hero or killer. The stars end for no one.”
- Draco, Artful Facade by Sky Sorceress
"Maybe you're blind. Sometimes when you stare at the sun too long, that happens."
- Draco, Artful Facade by Sky Sorceress
"Sometimes ugly things turn out to be beautiful in the end."
- Voldemort and Harry, Haven by Ivy Blossom
"If he had permission, Draco would wake Harry with kisses in the morning and then lull him to sleep with his hands at night. He would kiss Harry with the weight of all the things Harry's needed to know; I love you, I would slay dragons for you, I would humiliate myself, I would infuriate my father, incriminate myself, give up my future, my friends, my life for you."
- Draco, Origins by Ivy Blossom
"I know it’s the hurtful comments that drive me crazy and make me want to hurt him more. But it’s obsession that brings me back again. And you know what they say – obsession lasts forever. Right at this moment I don’t care. I want it to last forever, because right now forever doesn’t seem long enough."
- Harry, The Way We Are by Mizzy
"The opposite of love isn't hate. It's indifference. You can love somebody and hate them at the same time."
- Anon.
"You never forget you first taste of fire."
- Anon.
"I can't give you forever. I can't even give you a week. But the way things are going we could die tomorrow, so I want to give you tonight."
- Hermione, Anon.
"Do you think if I melt now and you melt too, we could liquefy and turn into one?"
- Anon.
"I came back. I did the right thing. I was only two things. I was my father's son and I was Harry Potter's rival. I lost one. I came back for the other."
- Draco, A Suitable Preparation by TromboneBorges
"Devotion, sacrifice, death, and tears--the price one has to pay for love."
- Anon.
"You are to humanity what a meteor is to earth. Pretty while you last, but when you go down, you take the whole fucking world with you."
- Jounouchi, Anon.
"I don't suppose it's necessary to tell you that we don't grow lilies at Malfoy
Manor."
- Lucius, Eternally Incomplete by nortylaK
"Love meant surrender. Love meant giving over your power to someone else."
- Never Left Behind by minerva alistor
"Never turn your back to your opponent. This is why courtesy was invented; the two people you should never turn your back to are women and enemies, both of whom wear different faces when they cannot see yours."
- Belong by Ivy Blossom
"I am the darkness, I am the iniquity, and I am the devil that will be waiting for you after I send you to hell."
- Yami no Bakura, Anon.
"Because when you fall, only one of three things ever happens.
Sometimes you wake up before you hit.
Sometimes you don't and it kills you.
And sometimes--just sometimes--when you fall...
You learn how to fly."
- Anon.
"There are some things I never joke about, Potter. My family, my clothes, my money, and you." Draco drew in a long, lingering breath, and reached across to tenatively graze his fingers across the shape of Harry's jaw, and Harry let out an equally shaky breath of his own.
- Unfinished cookie, nothingbutfic
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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
- Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
- Anon.
"It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not."
- Anon.