Shannon B > Shannon's Quotes

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.”
― Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

“I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.”
― Kate Chopin

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.”
― G.A. Aiken, What a Dragon Should Know

“Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday