Michelle Nakagawa > Michelle's Quotes

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
― Amy Sedaris

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries