Alexis Alvord > Alexis's Quotes

“It’s simple really. I don’t worry about things out of my control. I live only in the moment. Like this one. What could be better than being in the company of a beautiful girl at a festival, celebrating the arrival of spring?”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“You can’t lose what’s real”
― Daniel Mangena

“Pack speaking about his new love, Sky: “Well, let’s see. She has the animal husbandry skills of a vet, the organizational skills of a Six Sigma guru, and the mechanical skills of a…trained mechanic. She doesn’t require handyman help. And she’s nice to look at. Other than that, she leaves a lot to be desired. And maybe I omitted the best part, which is that she’s a fine human being with strong values.”
― John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

“I want to forget this awful place. Yet, at the same time, I never want to forget the many lessons that enabled me to mature quickly from just a skinny kid with a scraggly mustache, into a young man working so hard to seem older than his few years, as he evolves into early manhood.”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

“The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
― Tim O'Brien

“Pride is a fool's fortress”
― Leon Uris, Topaz

“But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“That's why you look down on me, because you know I lie. At wakes, at funerals, at weddings - yes, I lie. I lie at wakes and funerals to relieve pain. 'Cause reading, writing, and 'rithmetic is not enough. You think that's all the sent you to school for? They send you to school to relieve pain, to relieve hurt - and if you have to lie to do it, then you lie. You lie and you lie and you lie. When you tell yourself you feeling good when you sick, you lying. When you tell other people you feeling well when you feeling sick, you lying. You tell them that 'cause they have pain too, and you don't want to add yours - and you lie. She been lying every day of her life, your aunt in there. That's how you got through that university - cheating herself here, cheating herself there, but always telling you she's all right. I've seen her hands bleed from picking cotton. I've seen the blisters from the hoe and the cane knife. At that church, crying on her knees. You ever looked at the scabs on her knees, boy? Course you never. 'Cause she never wanted you to see it. And that's the difference between me and you, boy; that make me the educated one, and you the gump. I know my people. I know what they gone through. I know they done cheated themself, lied to themself - hoping that one they all love and trust can come back and help relieve the pain.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying

“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay.
-Elphaba”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“She listened to a life's story that was, she discovered, richer than it was sad.”
― Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i

“I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

“Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer

“I told you before, Katsa. I won't fight when you're angry. I won't solve a disagreement between us with blows." He lifted the ice and fingered his jaw. He moaned and held the ice to his face again. "What we do in the practice rooms-that's to help each other. We don't use it against each other. We're friends, Katsa. We're too dangerous to each other. And even if we weren't, it's not right.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth...”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Maybe my dad just didn't need words to get by in the world. I wasn't like that. Well, I was like that on the outside, pretending not to need words. But I wasn't like that on the inside.
I'd figured something out about myself: on the inside, I wasn't like my dad at all. On the inside I was more like Dante. That really scared me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.”
― kiera cass, The Selection

“No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler—”
― Lois Lowry, Son

“In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the living room, is a mountain of midterm examinations with essays I must suffer through, feeling my stomach turn at their paucity of intelligence, their adolescent phraseology. And all that tripe, all those miles of hideous prose, had been would into an eternal skein in his head. And there it sat unraveling into his own writing until he wondered if he could stand the thought of living anymore. I have digested the worst, he thought. Is it any wonder that I exude it piecemeal? (“Mad House”)”
― Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 1