Kristi Cramer > Kristi's Quotes

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.”
― Victor Hugo

“Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Somestimes the stomach paralyzes the heart.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised?
I'll say as they say, and persever so,
And in this mist at all adventures go.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hillaire Belloc