Nancy Shaffer > Nancy's Quotes

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“Life is a drag most of the time--birth, school, work, death.... I wish something magic would happen." --Aiden, "Blood and Chocolate”
― A.C. Klause

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, The House I Loved

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― E.B. White

“...There was more to the mind than a robot and a poet fighting for control of a beast.”
― Nick Haraway

“One's own mayhem is always better than anyone else's order.”
― Claudia Gray, Defy the Fates

“The opposite of Faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of Faith is certainty”...”Being humble before God means accepting that you may not possess the only path to Him.”
― Claudia Gray, Defy the Fates