Janelle Rae > Janelle's Quotes

“Okay, kids,' Dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Anne reveled in the world of color about her.

"Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.”
― gail carson levine, Ella Enchanted

“No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“start working- rarely resting- seemingly driven by a fatalistic sense that work that has to be done was best done as quickly as possible.”
― Richard Rodriguez

“The conversation advanced with remarkable ease. Talk is cheerful, the way talk is among people who rarely see one another and are surprised they have much to say.”
― Richard Rodriguez

“But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.”
― Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
― Philip Larkin

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“You can keep your passive hope and blind faith, and I’ll take the despair. Because at least the despair is real. I’d rather live in a grim reality than a comfortable delusion.”
― Evan Grinde, Chasing Oblivion

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while…”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal