Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.”
― M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party

“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

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types."
"Oh, but people do, they only think they don't. Even the person who insists such things don't exist is a cliché: the dreary pedant who insists on his own uniqueness!”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“Saying sorry does not make you look small—it makes you look big.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Precious and Grace

“Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”
― Bob Carter

“With the right words you can change the world.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“Every adventure undertaken, every prophecy spoken or sung, every dangerous road pointed to this simple truth - a battle between good and evil rages every day.”
― Bryan Davis, Tears of a Dragon

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been magic in his mane. She could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up.
"I'm sorry, Aslan," she said. "I'm ready now."
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed. But come. We have no time to lose.”
― C. S. Lewis