Quote of the Day

"Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them...your smile, your hope, and your courage."
- Doe Zantamata

Quote of the Day

"I have never felt an overwhelming desire to do anything except eat tacos. Everything else is kind of like, oh I guess I ought to go to work now. Maybe I should join Netflix again to watch those new Arrested Developments. I have notions, I experiment and try things, and then end up feeling disappointed in those things and then I go eat tacos."
- Jim Behrle (via)

Quote of the Day

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."
- Psalm 51:10

Quote of the Day

"Pilot says the big blue sky's like a swimmin' pool
Big fluffy clouds like a feather bed
I'd rather have a real pillow underneath my head
Lyin' in my bed which is in my hometown
Which is on the ground"
- Indigo Girls, "Airplane"

Quote of the Day

"Well, the plot, unlike your hair, continues to thicken."
- Shawn, Psych 6.16

Quote of the Day

"We have every reason to be optimistic in this world. You can't, you don't build out of pessimism or cynicism. You look with optimism, work with faith, and things happen. Things will work out. Keep trying. Be believing. Be happy. Don't get discouraged. Things will work out."
- Gordon B. Hinckley (via)

Quote of the Day

"Do give books -- religious or otherwise -- for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
- Lenore Hershey

Quote of the Day

"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials."
- Ronald Knox

Quote of the Day

"I don't feel like an adult because I don't work out or eat salads."
-  Ellie Shechet, "Are You a Grown Woman? An Informal Survey" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Don't forget this: the Lord never gets tired of forgiving; it is we that get tired of asking for forgiveness."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people -- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
- E. B. White

Quote of the Day

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
- Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Quote of the Day

"A new 400-page report released Monday by the Pew Research Center confirmed that everyone—absolutely everyone—other than you is starting new, exciting phases of their lives and careers. 'Our results indicate that those around you are all turning a new leaf, moving forward to face a fresh challenge, and embarking on periods of immense personal and professional growth, while you on the other hand are in a phase of total stagnation, if not regression,' said head researcher."
- The Onion, "Report: Everyone Starting New Exciting Stage Of Life Except You"

Quote of the Day

"I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you? You live with us, father us, befriend us, brother us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why aren't you standing with us? Why aren't you driven to the point of madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?"
- Eve Ensler

Quote of the Day

"I don't know any perfect people, only really really flawed people who are still worth loving."
- John Green

Quote of the Day

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own."
- Anna Quindlen

Quote of the Day

"Are we often weary, disheartened and sad? Do we feel weighed down by our sins? Do we think that we won't be able to cope? Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness."
- Miranda July

Quote of the Day

"We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images."
- John Gardner

Quote of the Day

"All that matters in a relationship is that you like the same pizza toppings."
- Daria, Daria 5.02

Quote of the Day

"Francis projects an image of being incredibly loving and accepting. That footage of a little kid refusing to leave the Pope's side and instead of getting mad, Francis smiles and pats him on the head? Francis kissing the face of the disfigured man? Francis washing people's feet at a youth penal colony? Francis talking, one-on-one, to anyone? Literally anyone? I hate hugs, but Francis is at the top of my Hug List. DTHug."
- Erin Gloria Ryan (via)

Quote of the Day

"Poets are always taking the weather so personally."
- J. D. Salinger

Quote of the Day

“When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.”
- Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

Quote of the Day

"Welcome. This is where the magic happens. And by magic, I mean nothing."
- Olive, Easy A

Quote of the Day

"If you desire a further witness, cast your mind upon the night that you cried unto me in your heart, that you might know concerning the truth of these things."
- Doctrines & Covenants 6:22

Quote of the Day

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."
- Rose Kennedy

Quote of the Day

"The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor, and style."
- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make."
- Gordon B. Hinckley

Quote of the Day

"Look, if I could run across the beach into my own arms, I would."
- Jackie, That '70s Show 5.25

Quote of the Day

“When it comes to the subject it's best to understand that white people do not recognize public transit as a viable option until a subway line is built that runs directly from their house to their work."
- Christian Lander, Stuff White People Like

Quote of the Day

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”
- David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

Quote of the Day

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust

Quote of the Day

"We were together. I forget the rest."
- Walt Whitman

Quote of the Day

"With a powerful community I can do so much more. I am happier. I learn and expand and, possibly, I can transform."
- Elana Aguilar

Quote of the Day

"It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that."
- Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Quote of the Day

"So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
- Jorge Luis Borges

Quote of the Day

"Don't save things for a special occasion. Everyday of your life is a special occasion."
- Thomas S. Monson

Quote of the Day

"There is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza."
- Daria, Is It College Yet?

Quote of the Day

“I just wish I could start a relationship about twelve years in, when you really don’t have to try anymore, and you can just sit around together and goof on TV shows, and then go to bed without anybody trying any funny business.”
- Liz Lemon, 30 Rock 3.04

Quote of the Day

"Do not try to save
the whole world
Or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create a clearing
in the dense forest of your life
and wait there patiently,
until the song
that is yours alone to sing
falls into your open cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to thie world,
so worthy of rescue."
- Martha Postlethwaite

Quote of the Day

"These sweatpants are all that fits me right now."
- Regina, Mean Girls

Quote of the Day

"I had a friend who used to smoke. Know what he's doing now? He's dead. You think smoking looks cool, let's go dig him up and see how cool he looks now. [Later] You know, there was a girl in our school... and she had premarital sex. Know what she did on her graduation day? Died! Of a heroin overdose!"
- Harold, Freaks and Geeks 1.01

Quote of the Day

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
- Voltaire

Quote of the Day

"I wanted a perfect ending, now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
- Gilda Radner

Quote of the Day

"All I want to get is a little bit closer
All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?"
- Tegan & Sara, "Closer"

Quote of the Day

"I think the biggest design project anyone can have is their own life."
- Jessi Arrington

Quote of the Day

"Here is a free tip. There is no phrase or sentence which is made better by the inclusion of this isn't racist, but. In all of human history, I do not believe there has been any profound or resilient idea expressed after the words this isn't racist, but."
- Hunter, The Daily Kos blog (via)

Quote of the Day

"When you use a ridiculous font, no one thinks you have a plan."
- Nellie, The Office 9.02 

Quote of the Day

"Maybe I'm romanticizing the past, but you think about older generations...if those generations could be a font, they would be Times New Roman. I look at my generation, we're COMIC SANS. You can't take us seriously -- we're Comic Sans!"
- Aziz Ansari, "Buried Alive"

Quote of the Day

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
- George R.R. Martin

Quote of the Day

"If you come upon a person who is drowning, would you ask if he needs help, or would it be better to just jump in and save him from the deepening waters?  The other, whilst well-meaning and often given, 'let me know if I can help?' is really no help at all."
- Donald Rasband

Quote of the Day

"His best works are able to catch the viewer immediately but, at the same time, provoke the viewer to search for more information below the surface."
- Ferdinand Brueggemann, on photographer Shomei Tomatsu (via)

Quote of the Day

"To those who have given up on love, I say, Trust life a little bit."
- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"I don’t remember where and when I first saw this book, if it was in a library or a bookstore or if I was twelve or thirteen, but I remember exactly how it made me feel. 'Oh, that’s me,' my heart and lungs said. 'You have to stop walking right now, because you’re on the bookshelf, and you have to take yourself home.'"
- Mallory Ortberg, "Annie On My Mind and the Books That Made Us Gasp" (via)

Quote of the Day

"One dollar, two bags of gummy bears!  It like, I don't even care what happens for the rest of the day."
- Barney, How I Met Your Mother 7.24

Quote of the Day

"The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
- Thomas Moore

Quote of the Day

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple...”
- J.K. Rowling

Quote of the Day

"Feel the reality of what this means, to know who you truly are. You are literally a spirit daughter of heavenly parents with a divine nature and an eternal destiny. That surpassing truth should be fixed deep in your soul and be fundamental to every decision you make."
- Jeffrey R. Holland

Quote of the Day

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quote of the Day

"I am not a relaxed person!  I think ahead.  I prepare.  I don't improvise my life like [that girl]...who probably has really bad credit and an unfinished mermaid tattoo."
- Annie, Community 2.10

Quote of the Day

"Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures..."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Quote of the Day

"A woman saying yes to a date with a man is literally insane, and ill-advised, and the whole species' existence counts on them doing it. I don't know how women still go out with guys when you consider the fact that there's no greater threat to women than men...Globally and historically, we're the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women, we're the worst thing that ever happens to them...But women still go out with men! 'Hi, where are we going?' To your death, statistically."
- Louis C.K.

Quote of the Day

"Seasons of waiting are designed to prepare you, stretch your faith, and get you ready for everything that's coming next."
- Mandy Hale

Quote of the Day

"I'm quirky, silly, blunt, and broken.  My days are sometimes too dark, and my nights are sometimes too long.  I often trip over my own insecurities.  I require attention, long for passion, and wish to be desired.  I use music to speak when words fail me, even though words are as important to me as the air I breathe.  I love hard and with all that I have...and even with my faults, I am worth loving."
- Danu Grayson

Quote of the Day

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
- Elizabeth Foley

Quote of the Day

"You spend your whole life stuck in a labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
- John Green, Looking For Alaska

Quote of the Day

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way she handles these three thing: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas lights."
- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"Girls everywhere want more for themselves than their societies tell them is reasonable to expect. And girls everywhere -- when they have a chance to be themselves -- make the world around them better."
 - Melinda Gates (via)

Quote of the Day

"I didn't always know what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be."
- Diane Von Furstenberg

Quote of the Day

"May God support us all the day long
Till the shadows lengthen
And the evening comes
And the busy world is hushed
And the fever of life is over
And our work is done.
Then in mercy, may God give us a safe lodging
And a holy rest and peace at last. Amen"
- Blessed John Henry Newman

Quote of the Day

"And I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do... Nevertheless I went forth."
- 1 Nephi 4:6-7

Quote of the Day

"Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?"
- Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation 2.20

Quote of the Day

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
- Anne of Green Gables

Quote of the Day

"Do the crazy thing. The hard-to-imagine-but-somehow-you-did thing. The bring-you-to-your-knees thing. The no-one-would-ever-do-it-that-way thing. The safety-net-would-not-even-matter thing. The it-could-kill-you-but-not-trying-is-another-kind-of-death thing. The thing on your heart. Do it, and let them gasp right before they call it a thing of wonder."
- Ciona Rouse

Quote of the Day

"You can't monopolize the bathroom crying space."
- Jess, New Girl 01.11

Quote of the Day

"The reality is you will grieve forever.  You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.  You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered.  You will be whole again but you will never be the same again.  Nor should you be the same nor should you want to."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Quote of the Day

"Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity.  Don't be afraid to aim high."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"[He] was a connoisseur of malingering. He enjoyed killing time the way some people savor aged gouda."
- Avi Steinberg, Running the Books

Quote of the Day

"Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim."
- Tyler Knott Gregson

Quote of the Day

"Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators."
- Stephen Fry

Quote of the Day

"When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life."
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote of the Day

"Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing … We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Archivists and librarians were opposite personas.  True librarians are unsentimental.  They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books.  Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful."
- Avi Steinberg, Running the Books

Quote of the Day

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
- Stephen King

Quote of the Day

"Peace is a precious gift, which must be promoted and protected...Never has the use of violence brought peace in its wake.  War begets war, violence begets violence."
- Pope Francis (via)

Quote of the Day

"If I believe there's a Savior, is the proof in me?
Is He alive and breathing?
Is He what they'll remember?
Is He what they see, when they look at me?"
- Britt Nicole, "Look Like Love"

Quote of the Day

"May today there be peace within. 
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. 
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. 
May you use those gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love.
It is there for each and every one of us."
- St. Therese of Lisieux

Quote of the Day

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."
- J.K. Rowling

Quote of the Day

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh

Quote of the Day

"From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel books' heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside."
- Rita Dove

Quote of the Day

"In case you ever foolishly forget; I am never not thinking of you."
- Virginia Woolf

Quote of the Day

“I also work here [in the library] because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to anything else. As a breed, we're the ultimate generalists. I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live.”
― Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian

Quote of the Day

"I'm bringing chocolate in case I get grumpy and my taser in case things get boring."
- ae

Quote of the Day

"I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun.  It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds."
- John Green

Quote of the Day

"That's enough out of you, MUCK MOUTH."
- Dr. Desmond Forest Oates, Get Over It

Quote of the Day

"Every reader finds himself.  The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
- Marcel Proust

Quote of the Day

"I want good love, I want it so bad.
It's a seed stuck in my throat
it's a weed around my hope, it makes me choke"
- Deb Talan, "Saturn's Light"

Quote of the Day

"As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it's an innately feminine trait.  We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases."
- Tori Amos

Quote of the Day

"So her strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea."
- Roald Dahl, Matilda

Quote of the Day

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities.  Seize common occasions and make them great."
- Orison Swett Marden

Quote of the Day

"Try not to confuse 'attachment' with 'love.'  Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love-of-self than love-of-another.  Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because you're empty.  It is about what you can give others because you're already full."
- Yasmin Mogahed

Quote of the Day

"Let yourself be silently drawn
by the strange pull
of what you really love.
It will not lead you astray."
- Rumi

Quote of the Day

"A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day.  A string of such moments can change the course of your life."
- Christopher Germer

Quote of the Day

“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”
- Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

Quote of the Day

"It is way too early for this, guys.  I haven't even had my first cup of wine today."
- Pete, 30 Rock 4.16

Quote of the Day

"Don't let the beauty standard give you more things to hate about yourself.  Perfect is a social construct.  Hot weather isn't."
- Lesley Powers, "In Honour of Bare Legs (If You Want to Have Them)" (via)

Quote of the Day

“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.  For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year.  You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past.  Summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
- Deb Caletti

Quote of the Day

"If there's one thing I've learned it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for the fantastic or the marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
- David Levithan, Every Day

Quote of the Day

"Jack and I know how we feel.  We don't have to say it out loud like a couple of gays getting married in jean shorts in Provincetown...while I'm just trying to enjoy an ice cream on the pier."
- Colleen Donaghy, 30 Rock 6.16

Quote of the Day

"Here we encounter our first trial: the left turn...Just a left turn? Would you say it's just a bullet to the brain? Intersections are the devil's playground, and left turns are his swingset.
- Mr. Ecklestone, Studio C (via)

Quote of the Day

"If God were edible -- not that I'm Catholic -- but if it was cool to eat God, he'd be a chicken finger."
- Troy, Community 1.21

Quote of the Day

"This is the stuff that drives me crazy
This is the stuff that's getting to me lately
In the middle of my little mess
I forget how big I'm blessed"
- Francesca Battistelli, "This is the Stuff"

Quote of the Day

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.  They went out and happened to things."
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Quote of the Day

“I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.”
- Alison Bechdel

Quote of the Day

"The measure of achievement is not winning awards.  It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.  I think of my strawberry souffle.  I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it."
- Julia Child

Quote of the Day

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
- Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

Quote of the Day

"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."
- Pearl Bailey

Quote of the Day

"In the present climate, there is a danger that love is being idealized as the only path to salvation.  Whether or not they are enjoying intimate relationships, human beings need a sense of being part of a larger community...The modern assumption that intimate relationships are essential to personal fulfillment tends to make us neglect the significance of relationships that are not so intimate."
- Anthony Storr

Quote of the Day

"I don't want to do things.  I want to not do things."
- April, Parks and Recreation

Quote of the Day

"I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises."
- Ellen Degeneres

Quote of the Day

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Quote of the Day

"Your 20s are your 'selfish' years.  It's a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing possible.  Be selfish with your time, and all the aspects of you.  Tinker with shit, travel, explore, love a lot, love a little, and never touch the ground."
- Kyoko Escamilla

Quote of the Day

"Fill your house with stacks of books,
in all the crannies and all the nooks."
- Dr. Seuss

Quote of the Day

"And when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
Empty pages for the no longer young
The apathy of time laughs in my face
You say, 'Each life has its place.'"
- Indigo Girls, "Virginia Woolf"

Quote of the Day

"Second graders like some really f---ed up books."
- C.S.

Quote of the Day

"Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary."
- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Quote of the Day

"Greetings from sunny Seattle.  Where women are gals, people are folks.  You can't sit Indian-style but you can sit criss-cross applesauce...Boyfriends and girlfriends are partners, nobody swears but someone might occasionally drop the F-bomb.  You're allowed to cough, but only into your elbow.  And any request, reasonable or unreasonable, is met with no worries."
- Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Quote of the Day

"Doing a little work makes goofing off more fun."
- Gretchen Rubin

Quote of the Day

"A library is like the best person you know -- politely quiet but endlessly informative, amazingly knowledgeable but charmingly discreet, open to everyone yet subject to your every whim, and, sadly, flammable if one isn't careful.  Be careful with yours."
- Lemony Snicket

Quote of the Day

"There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
- Nelson Mandela

Quote of the Day

"What if the picture is bigger than you see?
And God has you right where he wants you to be"
- Britt Nicole, "Still That Girl"

Quote of the Day

"I want someone who will be monogamous and nice to his mother.  I want someone who likes musicals but knows to just shut his mouth when I'm watching Lost.  And I want someone who thinks being really into cars is lame and strip clubs are gross.  I want someone who will actually empty the dishwasher instead of just taking out forks as needed (like I do).  I want someone with clean hands and feet and beefy forearms like a damn Disney prince.  And I want him to genuinely like me.  Even when I'm old.  And that's what I want."
- Liz Lemon, 30 Rock 4.17

Quote of the Day

"He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made."
- Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Quote of the Day

"Here comes the heat before we meet a little bit closer
Here comes the spark before the dark, come a little closer"
- Tegan & Sara, "Closer"

Quote of the Day

"But this is America! I want it now!"
- Tom Haverford, Parks and Recreation 5.14

Quote of the Day

"Reading became a creative and intellectual outlet throughout childhood, as well as a refuge when times got bad in my family in my teens.  The public library was like my church, a library card the equivalent of a passport to other places, even other worlds."
- Jana Riess, Flunking Sainthood

Quote of the Day

"A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's history.  It is a man's duty to have books.  A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Quote of the Day

"Do the best you can until you know better.  Then when you know better, do better."
- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.  It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
- Edward P. Morgan

Quote of the Day

"Shouldn't we hold out for the person who doesn't just tolerate our little quirks, but actually likes them?"
- Ted, How I Met Your Mother 5.02

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"Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh."
- Amy Poehler

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“I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny legs and my nose, I have even cried over my stupid shoes, and now when I have true sadness there are no tears left.”
- Betsy Byars, The Summer of the Swans

Quote of the Day

"Today's the fourth of July
Another June has gone by
And when they light up our town I just think
What a waste of gunpowder and sky"
- Aimee Mann, "4th of July"

Quote of the Day

"Isn't there someone out there I am here for?"
- Deb Talan, "Saturn's Light"

Quote of the Day

“Music is a total constant.  That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know?  Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person.  No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.”
- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

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"If I don't stand out like a star among the moons,
If I am always late and he always backs away too soon..."
- Deb Talan, "How Will He Find Me?"

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"Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.  Warm southern wind, blow softly here.  Green sod above, lie light, lie light.  Good night, dear Heart, good night, good night."
- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

"Dear Library,
I have lost your book.  I can not find it anywhere.  I will come to the library and turn myself in.  Please do not harm my mother and father."
- Charles Schulz, Peanuts

Quote of the Day

"Come let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
- Chaim Potok

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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
    
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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"I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do."
- Brian Andreas, "Dark Garden"

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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
- Zora Neale Hurston

Quote of the Day

“Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!  It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.  It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you.”
- Théophile Gautier

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"And if you share (With your heart)
Yeah, you give (With your heart)
What you share with the world is what it keeps of you"
- Noah and the Whale, "Give a Little Love"

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"I commune with my heart in the night."
- Psalm 77

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"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself.  They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused."
- Alan Cohen

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“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
- Ernest Hemingway

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"I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me."
- Sharon Creech

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"It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is.  Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things."
- Lemony Snicket

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"Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type LOL. I type LQTM: Laughing Quietly To Myself. It's more honest."
- Demetri Martin

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"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
- Roald Dahl

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"A party without cake is just a meeting."
- Julia Child

Quote of the Day

"'You wanna -- I dunno -- get coffee or something sometime?'
He smiled. 'Not coffee. But yes.'
'Not Coffee it is, then.'
'Yes, Not Coffee.'"
- David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

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"We got sunlight on the sand,
We got moonlight on the sea,
We got mangoes and bananas
You can pick right off the tree,
We got volleyball and ping-pong
And a lot of dandy games!
What ain't we got?
We ain't got dames!"
- Rodgers & Hammerstein, "There is Nothin' Like a Dame" (via)

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"When left to my own devices, I tend to lecture [in class]...because I am a pedantic asshole."
- T.H.

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"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.  Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so."
- Noam Chomsky

Quote of the Day

"You obviously haven't been at the library during finals week.  I've had to break up fights.  And the sobbing, God, the SOBBING."
- Marten, Questionable Content no. 2366

Quote of the Day

"Waiting on this for a while now
Paying my dues to the dirt
I’ve been waiting to smile,
Been holding it in for a while"
- Imagine Dragons, "On Top of the World"

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"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."
- Anais Nin

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"Wow, we're just blowing through nap time, aren't we?"
- Buster Bluth, Arrested Development 1.03

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"I am enough.  I am full of sparkle and compassion.  I genuinely want to make the world a better place.  I love hard.  I practice kindness.  I'm not afraid of the truth.  I am loyal, adventurous, supportive, and surprising.  I am a woman.  I am enough.  I make mistakes, but I own them and learn from them.  Sometimes I make a lot of mistakes."
- Molly Mahar

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"She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.” 

- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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"Advocacy is a call to conversion, a recognition of the sin -- the broken relationship that dehumanizes others -- and an act of penance by changing the sinful social structures."
- Russell Testa (via)

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"And I need love
Not some sentimental prison
I need God
Not the political church
I need fire
To melt the frozen sea inside me
I need love"
- Sam Phillips, "I Need Love"

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"Education is not merely a good idea -- it's a commandment.  We are to learn ‘of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad.'"
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf