Danita Brown > Danita's Quotes

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Without respect, there is no love … for long, for anyone, but a fool.”
― J. California Cooper, Life is Short But Wide

“Don’t bury it, use it. Don’t keep it in, give it away. Don’t turn that love in, turn that love out.”
― J. California Cooper, Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
― Langston Hughes

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
― Frank Miller

“Oh, I doubt that, we gods are like bottomless wells, if you lean over us, you won't even see your image reflected back”
― José Saramago, Cain

“Sometimes what we need is right in front of us, we just have to connect the dots and embrace what we already know.”
― Nick Jones, The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman

“He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.”
― John Buchan

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Time-travel can give with one hand but take with the other. There is always a consequence. There is always a deal. Nothing in life is free and it never was.”
― Nick Jones, The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman

“The sun came out, warm on my back through my white school blouse.the streets were familiar, past the old tannery, the Jet garage. Past the Asian corner shop with rainbow jars of Kayli, gobstoppers and sherbert love hearts. I was in love with Frankie.”
― Suzy Davies, Johari's Window

“Everybody counts, or nobody counts.”
― Michael Connelly

“only a fool trips on what’s behind him’.”                                                                                ”
― Jade Jones, Wife of a Misfit

“Every moment in life is an act of faith”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”
― Alexander Trocchi

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“Bitch, you is out your monkey-ass mind if you think that is even a request I’m capable of granting!”
― Theodora Taylor, His Forbidden Bride: 50 Loving States, West Virginia

“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.”
― Karl Kraus

“I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.”
― Wallace Thurman

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson