236 ratings (3.37 avg)
14 reviews

D

Add friend

D’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (292)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (593)
did-not-finish‎ (11)

tbr‎ (1)

Stats | More…

“You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: adam-parrish, love, richard-gansey, the-raven-king

769 likes

“Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

tags: alter, battle, clothing, defeat, loose, looser, lose, same, victories, victory, war, win, winner, won, wrong

126 likes

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: city-of-bones, jace-wayland

7682 likes

“I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.”
― Sara Sheridan

tags: archives, emotion, georgian, history, letters, tact, victorian

9 likes

“I have heard all I ever want to hear about the past," he said; "and I know what I most wanted to know about the future. Everybody says, Midwinter, you have a career before you, and I believe that everybody is right. Who knows what great things may happen before you and I are many years older?"
.
"Who _need_ know?" said Midwinter, calmly. "Happen what may, God is all-merciful, God is all-wise. In those words your dear old friend once wrote to me. In that faith I can look back without murmuring at the years that are past, and can look on without doubting to the years that are to come.”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

tags: faith, future, god, inspirational, mystery, past, victorian

4 likes

More of D’s quotes…