Brittney > Brittney's Quotes

“This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“I don't think it's things that used to be that haunt us, but things that could have been.”
― Matthew Baker

“We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“I could be hurt by something other than myself.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“...to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.”
― Dean koontz, Brother Odd

“That's her style of beauty.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“History is a long time in the making.”
― Gregory Maguire, After Alice

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation,dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”
― Jack Kerouac

“I don't care, baby, I don't care”
― Stephan Jenkins

“There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.

- Gloria”
― Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

“It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“The world was waking up.”
― Mira Bartok, The Wonderling

“And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

“And so our schools are not failing. Rather they are obsolete.”
― Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship -- and What We Can Do About It

“...in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

“beautiful things are always beautiful. It's how we perceive them that makes us think they're not.”
― Sean Easley, The Hotel Between

“I don't call them 'good' or 'bad'...[t]hey're all good if you're doing the right thing.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“If the world is as you dream it, why had I dreamed such a world?”
― John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

“...there are words that can never be unsaid or forgotten...”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White