Lisa Totten > Lisa's Quotes

“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

“Why couldn't she stop talking? Did all lonely people have that problem?”
― Richard Yates, A Special Providence

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors