Tetiana Bilokin > Tetiana's Quotes

“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
― Warren Buffett

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“In that last dance of chances

I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch another turn you

As you move across the floor.


In that last dance of chances

When I bid your life goodbye

I will hope she treats you kindly.

I will hope you learn to fly.


In that last dance of chances

When I know you'll not be mine

I will let you go with longing

And the hope that you'll be fine.


In that last dance of chances

We shall know each other's minds.

We shall part with our regrets

When the tie no longer binds.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”
― John Edgar Wideman

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
― Mother Teresa

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
― William Blake

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
― William Blake