Beth > Beth's Quotes

“...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or blush or clap their hands when they're happy? Don't try to say otherwise, I've seen you fighting like a boxer to change your face so that it never shows anything. Whoever told you that's what growing up means is a villain, as true as a mustache. I am growing up, too, and look at me! I cry and I blush and I live in Fairyland always!”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”
― Fellini

“She's an old woman possessed of great powers--but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose