Andrea > Andrea's Quotes

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“But here's the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn't proposing that as a concept; he's simply articulating what humans believe about themselves. That first they thing and therefore then they exist.
What follows on from that is even worse: that since humans live that way, thinking that first they thing and then they exist, they also think that anything that doesn't think, also doesn't fully exist.
Trees, the sea, the fish in the sea, the sun, the moon, a hill or a whole mountain range. None of that exists all the way; it exists on a second plane of existence, a lesser existence. Therefore, it deserves to be merchandise or food or background for humans and nothing more.”
― Sabina Berman, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World

“Hay amores buenos como el pan, nutrientes, esperanzadores, y hay amores de hambre y de veneno. Hay amores que abren una ventana sobre el paraíso, de los que soportamos los tormentos por los éxtasis en los que derivan, y amores que nos entretienen con el éxtasis mientras secretamente nos arrastran al infierno.”
― Sabina Berman, Amante De Lo Ajeno

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I'd only stop talking when... I disappeared, or when I slept, which is the same as disappearing but horizontally.”
― Sabina Berman, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World

“Como los humanos viven así, creyendo que primero piensan y luego existen, piensan que todo aquello que no piensa no existe del todo.”
― Sabina Berman, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World

“Su mundo de humanos standard: Una burbuja donde nada sino lo humano es oído o visto realmente, donde nada más que lo humano importa y lo demás es paisaje, mercancía o comida.”
― Sabina Berman, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
― Virginia Woolf