H.L. Stephens > H.L.'s Quotes

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

“There is only one person in the world, aside from your dog, who has any hope of liking you regardless of your success or failure. That's you. I think it's worth a little of your time to get to know that person better.”
― H.L. Stephens

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“Do you want to be crazy, radical, insanely different than everybody else and do something few people have the courage to do? Then try being yourself and walk a mile or two in your own shoes. Stop trying to be something you are not. Stop trying to emulate someone else. Trust me....they are probably just copying another person they think is cool. No one else will ever be able to duplicate how perfectly you personify yourself. Here is your chance to amaze the world with how different you can be.”
― H.L. Stephens

“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.”
― H.L. Stephens, The Case of Jack the Nipper

“Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.”
― H.L. Stephens

“It all began with a bucket of eggs.”
― H.L. Stephens, The Case of Jack the Nipper

“To truly fail in life is to never try. When you fall on your face, it is an opportunity for you to find the road again. It may remind you how hard the road is, but you will never forget its presence once you make contact.”
― H.L. Stephens

“Sleep is highly overrated, Marmee; especially when there are books to be read. I shall sleep when I am dead and have enough of it.”
― H.L. Stephens, The Case of the Wayward Fae

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence