Adrian Lilly > Adrian's Quotes

“Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are
Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words
Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you
Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart”
― R. Tagore

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Woodward and Bernstein,” Jared said from seemingly nowhere.
“What?”
“They were just two reporters. Yet, they broke the Watergate scandal. They toppled an administration. That’s us.”
“We’re Woodward and Bernstein.” Alec said, pointing between him and Jared.
“Woodward, Bernstein, and Lucy,” Lucy corrected.”
― Adrian Lilly, The Wolf at His Door

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
― Molière

“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.”
― Jacques Ellul

“By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.”
― Jacques Ellul, Perspectives on Our Age

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost