Monica Murphy > Monica's Quotes

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel.”
― Monica Murphy, One Week Girlfriend

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“My siren had sung to me for way too long, capturing my heart, tempting me with her body, driving me slowly insane. Now, I expected her to pay up.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary