Tara Holman > Tara's Quotes

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“I don't care if only a handful of people read my books, the stories must be told. I will never give up writing”
― Christy Sloat

“Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Found

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For as long as I can remember, I have always had the feeling of not quite fitting in, not being the same as everyone else.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence