Norma > Norma's Quotes

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“¿Cuánto tiempo? - me preguntó Sohrab.
-No lo sé. Un poco.
Sohrab se encogió de hombros y sonrió, una sonrisa más ancha aquella vez.
-No me importa. Puedo esperar. Es como las manzanas verdes.
-¿Las manzanas verdes?
-Una vez, cuando era muy pequeño, trepé a un árbol y comí unas manzanas que aún estaban verdes. Se me hinchó el estómago y se me puso duro como un tambor. Mi madre me dijo que si hubiese esperado a que madurasen, no me habrían sentado mal. Así que ahora, cuando quiero algo de verdad, intento recordar lo que ella me dijo sobre las manzanas.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Gideon's Sword

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma