Nicole > Nicole's Quotes

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
― Willa Cather

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

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

“If Henry Adams, whom you knew slightly, could make a theory of history by applying the second law of thermodynamics to human affairs, I ought to be entitled to base one on the angle of repose, and may yet. There is another physical law that teases me, too: the Doppler Effect. The sound of anything coming at you -- a train, say, or the future -- has a higher pitch than the sound of the same thing going away. If you have perfect pitch and a head for mathematics you can compute the speed of the object by the interval between its arriving and departing sounds. I have neither perfect pitch nor a head for mathematics, and anyway who wants to compute the speed of history? Like all falling bodies, it constantly accelerates. But I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sober sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne. I don't find your life uninteresting, as Rodman does. I would like to hear it as it sounded while it was passing. Having no future of my own, why shouldn't I look forward to yours.”
― Wallace Stegner

“How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?”
― Charles Wright

“Snub end of a dismal year,
deep in the dwarf orchard,
The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars,
I stand in the dark and answer to
My life, this shirt I want to take off,
which is on fire . . .”
― Charles Wright

“Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary,
imperial joy and sorrow of human existence,
the dreamed as well as the lived—
what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?”
― Louise Gluck, The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable

“Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond—
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.”
― Louise Gluck, The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable

“It was like trying to think about what he’d be thinking if he never existed. He wouldn’t be thinking about what he was thinking. He just wouldn’t exist. It wouldn’t hurt.”
― Nicole Grotepas, Feed

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

“If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.”
― Joss Whedon

“You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”
― Joss Whedon

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“I don't know if I believed what I was saying, but I wanted to comfort Marta. It didn't matter if it wasn't true anyway or whether I believed it. What mattered was how it made Marta perceive her situation. Did it make her feel less alone? Did it make her feel like there were more people on her side? If so, then I was willing to tell her the things she needed to hear.”
― Nicole Grotepas, Blue Hearts of Mars

“I stared at him like he was being a total moron. Which he was. I'd never say that though.

"Dad, you're being a total moron."

Well, maybe I would.”
― Nicole Grotepas, Blue Hearts of Mars

“And then I realized where my feet were taking me ... Feet can be such smart-asses.”
― Nicole Grotepas, Blue Hearts of Mars

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray