Ann Girdharry > Ann's Quotes

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“The Luggage said nothing, but louder this time.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

“My wife was among the millions who died, and I was still there, wrapped in a cloud of self-pity. I couldn’t hold her hand and say how much I loved her in those last moments.”
― Stjepan Varesevac Cobets, 2025: SF Novella