Joy > Joy's Quotes

“Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.”
― Stella Gibbons

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
― Ali Smith, How to be Both

“It was all : it was nothing : it was more than enough.”
― Ali Smith, How to be Both