Vera > Vera's Quotes

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
― Ernesto Guevara

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“You mean I'm not a cougar?"

He laughed his beautiful, sexy laugh and pulled me to him, kissing my face.

"Technically, I think you're a puma.”
― Andrea Smith, Diamond Girl

“Wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, alive or dead, young or old, my heart will always be with yours. Every beat you feel against your fingertips..." His fingers tapped against my chest, once, twice. "... is me calling out to you. It's you returning the call. It's us talking, communicating, bonding, sharing, Living -- Kiersten, it's us living.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin