A.M. > A.M.'s Quotes

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon

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

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

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

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

“O beautiful for spacious skies
for amber waves of grain”
― Katharine Lee Bates

“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“Meet Jan! (Quotes from Jan Does Europe)

"I'm having a wonderful life.

"I visualize myself strong, beautiful and good.

"I love with all of me.

"Everyday my mind is filled with thoughts of people I love.

"I am the person I want to be.

"I do all the things I fear I can't.

"I'm where I should be.

"I have much to be happy for.

"Isn't that the point, to enjoy our lives no matter what?”
― Jude Arnold, Jan Does Europe

“Until the end and from the start." The Lost Boys”
― Lilian Carmine

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“After I’m dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”
― Morrie Schwartz, Morrie: In His Own Words

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
― Morrie Schwartz, Morrie: In His Own Words

“owning your sexuality is a big part of equality.”
― Lori Perkins, Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey

“We were engaged in a very intricate dance of touching without touching, knowing without saying, and feeling without expressing. We were friends walking along a ledge, a very thin ledge - and I was too caught up in my heightened awareness of his existence to realize how close the ledge was to crumbling beneath my feet.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe

“But, if for some reason we're not closer, if something has gotten between us, please, I'm begging you…don't give up on me. Stay. Stay with me. Work it out with me. Just don't leave me…please.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“What if I don’t choose you, Kellan? What will you do?”
He looked away, a tear rolling down his cheek. “I’ll leave, Kiera. I’ll leave, and you and Denny can have your happily ever after.” He looked back at me. “You wouldn’t even need to tell him about me. Eventually, the two of you…” his voice broke and another tear fell on his cheek, “the two of you would get married, and have children, and have a great life.”
I fought back a sob. “And you? What happens to you in that scenario?”
“I…get by. And I miss you, every day,” he whispered.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“Dude, he's Australian...not a pirate.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation...or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you...I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too...scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart... Even if it means breaking my own.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“If I'm yours and you're mine...then I will take you, wherever and whenever I can.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless