Shauna > Shauna's Quotes

“Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
are
everything,
all of it-
sprinkles, quarks, giant
donuts, eggs sunny-side up-
you
are the ever-expanding
universe
to me.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“I promise to always turn back toward you.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“You are the ever-expanding universe to me”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“That squid is a villain," said Flora out loud. "He needs to be vanquished. He's eating a boat. And he's going to eat all of the people on the boat."

"Yes, well, loneliness makes us do terrible things," said Dr. Meescham. "And that is why the picture is there, to remind me of this. Also, because the other Dr. Meescham painted it when he was young and joyful."

Good grief, thought Flora. What did he paint when he was old and depressed?”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“I love your round head,
the brilliant green,
the watching blue,
these letters,
this world, you.
I am very, very hungry.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“Je t’aime, it said: I love you. Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, pas du tout: A little, a lot, passionately—not at all.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your life based on injustice and lies.”
― Laurie Forest, The Black Witch

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain