Erin > Erin's Quotes

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
― Ramona Quimby as written by Beverly Cleary, Ramona's World

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.”
― Louis L'Amour

“If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed

“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“She's dearer than life itself, that's all I know.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Castle Dor

“Oh, honestly, don't you two read?”
― J.K. Rowling

“You'd think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people's lips. Ah, how nice. Love. Making love. Laughter. Kissing.
But no, the world is upside down as far as I can see, and romances and their writers are ridiculed, hisses and generally spat upon.
For what reason? One of my favorites is that women who read them might get mixed up about reality and imagine a man is going to rescue them from Life. According to this theory, women are so stupid that they can't tell a story from reality. Is anyone worried that the MEN who read spy thrillers are going to go after their neighbors with an automatic weapon? No, I don't remember anyone thinking that. Nor do I remember anyone worrying about murder mysteries or science fiction. It just seems to be dumb ol' women who might think some gorgeous, thoughtful, giving hunk is going to rescue them.
Honey, if any woman thought a gorgeous hunk was going to rescue her, romance novels wouldn’t be forty percent of the publishing industry.”
― Jude Deveraux, Remembrance

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”
― Neil Armstrong

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“There's more to getting to where you're going then just knowing there's a road.”
― Joan Lowery Nixon, In the Face of Danger

“Sex sells, even to smart, liberated women, and Mr. Darcy was the smart girl's pinup boy.”
― Karen Doornebos, Undressing Mr. Darcy

“Some women fear the fire. Some women simply become it ...”
― R.H. Sin

“If you ever find you’ve nowhere else to go, you come here to these books and find yourself.”
― J. Elle, Wings of Ebony

“Let’s think of a solution, not the problem.”
― Natasha Bowen, Skin of the Sea