Benji Martin > Benji's Quotes

“My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.”
― Mo Willems

“The surprise is on the far side."
"You're sure?"
"Positive."
"It better not be another fairy," Seth said.
"What's the matter with fairies?"
"I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

“There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.”
― Holly Black, Doll Bones

“Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

“Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.”
― N.D. Wilson, Dandelion Fire

“Still, the question remained. Was he straitjacket strange or just go-off-by-yourself-at-recess-and-put-bugs-in-your-nose strange?”
― Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early

“There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.”
― Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early

“No, the sky, it is not a contest or an exam. The only question is, can you look up? Can you take it all in?”
― Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early

“Little Hawk, it is not for us to tell how great and terrible things come about. Only the Great Spirit can see all.”
― Susan Cooper, Ghost Hawk

“Lord, we flail. Forgive the lies we tell from purple thrones on TBN. Forgive the lies we tell in shrines. Forgive every attempt at self-redemption, the holy efforts we call our own, all the clawing we call resurrection. Bury us. Take us to helpless dust. Then roll away the stone and call us by our names. Make us all Lazarus. (125)”
― N. D. Wilson

“Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

“It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”
― Aleksander Pushkin

“You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story.

They show up.

And then they get their heads cut off.

Just thought you’d like to know.”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved