Grace's favorite quotes

"For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.'"
— Lemony Snicket (The Wide Window)

tags: humor

17 people liked it

"Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck."
— Lemony Snicket

378 people liked it

"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. "
— Groucho Marx

tags: art, humor

275 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

7,795 people liked it

"CALVIN:
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning & inhibit clarity."
— Bill Watterson

tags: writing

64 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight

5,717 people liked it

"Good artists copy, Great artists steal."
— Pablo Picasso

6 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth

437 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing

507 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

5,814 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading

2,149 people liked it

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading

840 people liked it

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading, wicked

800 people liked it

"It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: hats, humor

404 people liked it

"I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms."
— Lemony Snicket (The Beatrice Letters)

tags: doomed-love

143 people liked it

"It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right."
— Lemony Snicket (The Blank Book)

tags: wrong

131 people liked it

"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: library

90 people liked it

"The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end."
— Lemony Snicket (The End)

tags: endings

65 people liked it

"The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: great_writing_ideas

65 people liked it

"The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!""
— Lewis Carrol (Alice Through the Looking-Glass)

tags: alice, carrol, lewis, looking-glass, nonsense, queen, red, sensible, through

1 person liked it

"Poison shrugged. “Story or not, the point is the same. People don’t know how to react if you don’t do what they expect. It doesn’t matter what you are, it’s how you appear.”"
— Chris Wooding (Poison)

tags: appear, chris, people, poison, wooding

2 people liked it

"Magdalena pulls me away by the arm. “I am the stronger one of Titus and I,” she says over the marketplace din. “Woman are always the stronger sex.” She smiles to herself. “The trick is not appearing to be so.”"
— Lynn Cullen (I Am Rembrandt's Daughter)

tags: cullen, humor, lynn, sex, women

2 people liked it

""Okay, technically, I'm a serial killer.""
— Sylar

7 people liked it

"Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?"
— Lili St. Crow (Strange Angels)

5 people liked it

"The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to take Christophe seriously when he smelled like baked goods. I wondered if other djampjir smelled like Hostess Twinkies and sniggered to myself."
— Lili St. Crow (Strange Angels)

3 people liked it

""Who you calling? Ghostbusters?"

I suppose you had to make that joke sooner or later."
— Lili St. Crow (Strange Angels)

8 people liked it

"Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too."
— Lili St. Crow (Strange Angels)

4 people liked it

"The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle."
— Stephen King (Night Shift)

115 people liked it

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