Rosa > Rosa's Quotes

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“Death is never an ending, death is a change;
Death is beautiful, for death is strange;
Death is one dream out of another flowing.”
― Conrad Aiken, The House of Dust: a Symphony

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
― Anthony Trollope

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
― Derek Walcott

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous”
― John le Carré

“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes”
― John Le Carre

“I lived in a place where the weather holds a grudge against humans. Winter in Chicago is winter defined (..)”
― Royce Prouty, Stoker's Manuscript

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
― Edith Wharton

“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
― Edith Wharton

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead, we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
― W.Somerset Maugham

“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
― Somerset Maugham