Jane's quotes

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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,629 people liked it

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: idiotic-book, love, romance, romantic
5,561 people liked it

"So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?"
"You're exactly my brand of heroin."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: cullen, edward, heroin, love, twilight
1,511 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
15,859 people liked it

"If you don't like someone's story, write your own."
— Chinua Achebe

19 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,030 people liked it

"I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely."
— Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep)

31 people liked it

""A wager?" I repeated.
"Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ...
"Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define.
"A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning.
"Done," I said."
— Sherwood Smith (Crown Duel)

tags: crown, duel, meliara, shevraeth, vidanric, wager
15 people liked it

"Aiden already knew he should say his last prayers now. Lex was going to kill him. Slowly.
***
She was going to kill him. Slowly.
Lex sat on the sidelines watching the last game of the night. She hated sitting out, but she had to take her turn."
— Camy Tang

tags: for, humor, one, sushi
2 people liked it

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

tags: books, reading
855 people liked it

"When silence is God's only voice,
And waiting on Him my only choice,
A banner of faith I humbly raise
And offer a sacrifice of praise.
Though answers He may not impart,
Forever I can trust His heart."
— Kathy Herman (Day of Reckoning)

2 people liked it

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
— Jack London

74 people liked it

"They sank into chairs near the back as the worship leaders ended a song. Actually it was the last song.
"You made us hecka late." Lex's huffy complaint tickled Trish's ear.
"You were already late."
"You made us even later."
An old lady in the row in front of them whirled to glare at them.
"Can we discuss this later?"
"
— Camy Tang (Only Uni)

tags: humor, late, only, sushi, uni
1 person liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,052 people liked it

"Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood."
— Jane Yolen

38 people liked it

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
— Corrie Ten Boom

81 people liked it

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: books
97 people liked it

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: death, love, movies
1,167 people liked it

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life, pain
631 people liked it

"Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly."
— Janette Oke (Love Comes Softly)

17 people liked it

"I am simply a "book drunkard." Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them."
— L.M. Montgomery (The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery : Volume I: 1889-1910)

tags: books
114 people liked it

"A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table."
— Lisa Wingate

12 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,196 people liked it

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: husband, marriage, wife
842 people liked it

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

286 people liked it

"No furniture is so charming as books."
— Sydney Smith

tags: books
70 people liked it

"When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page, busy with a scene being played out in my mind's eye, with my ears engaged, hearing the voices carry from the pen to the present. What a lovely place to be-not here
- Just Jane (Chapter Four Page 35)"
— Nancy Moser (Just Jane: A Novel of Jane Austen's Life)

tags: reading
3 people liked it

"-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
'There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter'"
— P.G. Wodehouse

tags: ties, time, wodehouse
4 people liked it

""I am a woman, hear me roar," I said.
"Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped"
— Charlaine Harris (From Dead to Worse)

tags: humor
6 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,317 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
6,149 people liked it

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