Belle > Belle's Quotes

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
― Agatha Christie

“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgot to get old.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Without literature, life is hell.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
― Christopher Marlowe

“Hell is just a frame of mind.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.”
― Christopher Marlowe

“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“She had a foreigner’s beauty, like a language we do not know how to read.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Being close to her was like being warmed by a bonfire, and I had been cold for a long time.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Strange how some trash survives, but precious things are lost, isn’t it?”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“In-yo would say that the war was won by silenced and nameless women, and it would be hard to argue with her.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Writers spend a lot of time being alone. If we're lucky, we like being alone, and if we're even luckier, we have people who love us through it all.”
― Nghi Vo

“but deep down, I thought she would never be alone again, not it I could help it. Being close to her was like being warmed by a bonfire, and I had been cold for a long time.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Are you going to ask me if I understand? I am still not sure if I do."
"Well, something like this, you understand or you won't.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“As you live with anything, I suspect. You bear it, or you end it. So far we have proved equal to bearing it."
With my mouth stuffed full of mushroom, I didn't say that you could also find beauty in it.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“If it was a monster of some kind, it was a monster that watched over me, and, at the very least it had not devoured me yet.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune