Eugene > Eugene's Quotes

“Faggots make the best friends," she said philosophically. "They're very loyal.”
― Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”
― Victor Hugo

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger