Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth.”
― Christina Rossetti

“To love makes one solitary.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. ”
― Christina Rossetti

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream's sake.”
― Christina Rossetti

“He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“Fear no more, says the heart...”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad”
― Christina Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology

“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?”
― Christina Rossetti, Poems of Christina Rossetti

“It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”
― Amy Hempel

“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.”
― Barry Hannah

“I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.”
― Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”
― Amy Hempel, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom

“Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“The time has to be right and the heart willing.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.”
― Amy Hempel

“There must be more to life than having everything!”
― Maurice Sendak, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are