Quotes - Constance McKee (constance_mckee) (Atlanta, GA) Showing 1-30 of 110

#1

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

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#2

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

tags: honesty, introspection

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#3

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
― Tuli Kupferberg

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#4

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

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#5

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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#6

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: love, obsession, sleep

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#7

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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#8

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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#9

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

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#10

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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#11

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

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#12

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#13

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

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#14

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

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#15

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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#16

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love

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#17

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

tags: novels, short-stories, writing

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#18

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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#19

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

tags: inspirational

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#20

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

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#21

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

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#22

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime

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#23

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

tags: inspirational

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#24

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

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#25

“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

1432 likes

#26

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#27

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love

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