Marissa > Marissa's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Would you just stay with me?
Stay with you? What for? Look at us! We're already fighting!
Well that's what we do! We fight! You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you're being a pain in the ass! Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings, you have like a two-second rebound rate and you're back doing the next pain in the ass thing.
So, what?
So it's not gonna be easy, it's gonna be really hard. And we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen

“How's it hangin' Harry?
I keep trying to die, but they won't let me.
Well, you can't have everything.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan