Susan's quotes

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"I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse"
— Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)

13 people liked it

"Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all," Anne confided to Marilla, "You wouldn't think so to look at her, but she is. . . Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

66 people liked it

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: logic, love
443 people liked it

"I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
364 people liked it

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: day, dreaming, dreams, night
605 people liked it

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: dreaming, dreams, perception
369 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,891 people liked it

"Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it's brain?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: humor, trust
369 people liked it

"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

359 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,446 people liked it

"Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Narcissus in Chains)

119 people liked it

"What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you."
— Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain)

19 people liked it

"[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives."
— Nancy E. Turner (These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : A Novel)

tags: children, death, play, therapy
7 people liked it

"You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman..."
— Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

34 people liked it

"What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?"
— Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)

tags: smile
13 people liked it

"Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages..."
— Rebecca Wells (Little Altars Everywhere)

tags: books
19 people liked it

"Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere."
— Rebecca Wells (Little Altars Everywhere)

10 people liked it

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
— Rudyard Kipling

tags: words
550 people liked it

"I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains -
I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.
I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane;
I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs.
I will go out until the day, until the morning break -
Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress;
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!"
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Books)

tags: inspirational
3 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,891 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,589 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,916 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,521 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,471 people liked it

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

166 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,839 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
3,126 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,659 people liked it

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

tags: books, humor
1,253 people liked it

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

tags: books
860 people liked it

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

tags: books, house, windows
573 people liked it

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

tags: books
481 people liked it

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading
422 people liked it

"Books may well be the only true magic."
— Alice Hoffman

tags: books
360 people liked it

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, fiction, literature
355 people liked it

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book)

12 people liked it

"Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

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— Rudyard Kipling

6 people liked it

"The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see." "
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Books)

4 people liked it

"These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Books)

tags: ape, crocodile, curiosity, greed, kite
4 people liked it

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
— Rudyard Kipling

9 people liked it

"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"
— Isak Dinesen

tags: africa
19 people liked it

"You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions."
— Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa)

tags: adventure, africa, life
13 people liked it

""Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.""
— Isak Dinesen

3 people liked it

"Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!!"
— Charlaine Harris

tags: sookie-stackhouse
85 people liked it

"You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.
--Abbey Drake"
— Christine Feehan (Magic in the Wind (Drake Sisters, #1))

20 people liked it

"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

tags: love
58 people liked it

"Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?
-Marryann in Sense and Sensibility "
— Jane Austen

6 people liked it

""I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." -- Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
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— Jane Austen

30 people liked it

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
— Jane Austen

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
17 people liked it