Annamaria Mechler > Annamaria's Quotes

“We meant well, she thought, looking up at a sky piled with cumulus clouds turning amethyst and indigo above the clearing. No one was deliberately evil. We all did the best we could. Even so, what a mess we made of everything …”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

“Her hands trembled as she pressed them together to make them stop, for Kapugen had taught her that fear can so cripple a person that he cannot think or act. Already she was too scared to crawl.
"Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.”
― Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves

“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”
― Julio Cortazar

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“She loved three things — a joke, a
glass of wine, and a handsome man.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!”
― Dr. Seuss

“If you choose to leave The Octunnumi, sever ties, that part of your life is a distant memory; dream-like.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else’s poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“Motion”
― Carolyn Keene, Bonfire Masquerade

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold. DANISH PROVERB”
― Robert Fulghum, From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives

“I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.”
― William Golding, Free Fall

“So Rwandan history is dangerous. Like all of history, it is a record of successive struggles for power, and to a very large extent power consists in the ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality - even, as is so often the case, when that story is written in their blood.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Why fit in when you're born to stand out?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

“I had the need to be the good master, but definitely the master, no matter what the cost.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“I’m a scientist! Now we’re getting somewhere! Time for me to use science. All right, genius brain: come up with something! …I’m hungry. You have failed me, brain.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“¿Por qué merezco yo vivir entre flores, cuando todos los demás tienen que contentarse con árboles de ramas peladas y nieve fangosa? No lo sé, pero no sabes cuánto me alegro de que así sea.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."

"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

“No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“You’ve bitten through a bigger peg than this one I’m dragging.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.”
― David McCullough, 1776

“She said, “My people of Oxford, you are suffering from the administration of Hugh le Despencer the Elder and his son called Hugh le Despencer the Younger! I have issued warrants for their arrest and bringing to trial for crimes of High Treason against both men and their partner in crime called Edmund Fitzalan! I urge all of you to inform my soldiers of the where-abouts of these men!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“My own style grew out of my work as a graphic designer. I try to express the essence of my stories and ideals very clearly, using simple shapes, often in bright colors against a white background. You might almost think of my illustrations, and especially the cover art, as little posters.”
― Eric Carle