Emily > Emily's Quotes

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
― Carrie Fisher

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.'
'There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf.
'But it is the last road,' said Bilbo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“Feminine' was a test like some witch trial she was preordained to fail.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

“Had I known but yesterday what I know today,
I’d have taken out your two gray eyes
And put in eyes of clay;
And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own
I’d have taken out your heart of flesh
And put in one of stone”
― Tam Lin Neville