Dusty Holloway > Dusty's Quotes

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”
― Bill Watterson

“We should impart our courage and not our despair.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“That's the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark; but play boldly and no one will question you.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Choose love not in the shallows
but in the deep.”
― Christina Rossetti

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anais Nin

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
― Mario Vargas-Llosa

“Maybe you’re so good at listening that you have no idea when to speak.” ~Braeden”
― S.M. Boyce, Lichgates

“Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.”
― Joseph Eastwood

“Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.”
― Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose”
― Bill Watterson

“County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?”
― Bill Watterson

“What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is unfair, and the bad guys keep winning and good people die. But I like how that's not always the end of it...Evil is real, but so is good. They always say fairy tales are simplistic, black and white, but I don't think so. I think they're complicated. That's what I love about them.”
― Polly Shulman, The Grimm Legacy