Heather > Heather's Quotes

“We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.”
― Charles Dickens

“Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said.
No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“Because I look at other people, they always look back. It must be because we all look like puppets to each other.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“My mind is no good at government. It adopts all.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“There are too many people in the sea for me to believe that all of them are in a fit condition to be in it.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“I pick up a book on Zen, watch the coffee pot and start reading. But nothing sinks in because I feel too sad with living.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda