Quotes - Pam (chicklebird) (Huntington, WV) Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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#2

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, feminist, reading

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#3

“Worse than jokes in the morning did she hate the idea of a husband.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

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#4

“Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

tags: depression, time

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#5

“Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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#6

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

tags: book, inspirational

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#7

“There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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#8

“My sievelike mind didn't want to lock away dates and details; it wanted to float and meander. If I mixed all those facts and these up with a little gelatine and egg white, I wondered, would they stick together better?”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

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#9

“Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was - wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind?”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

tags: perception, reality

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#10

“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#11

“Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#12

“The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.”
― Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

tags: death, health, life, mortality

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#13

“But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

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#14

“It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

tags: help, understanding

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#15

“There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: l-m-montgomery

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#16

“Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

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#17

“Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: anne-shirley, l-m-montgomery, matthew

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#18

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-ship-storms

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#19

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: inside, looks, people, true-nature

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#20

“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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#21

“But there are no men here,” said Mrs. Wilkins, “so how can it be improper? Have you noticed,” she inquired of Mrs. Fisher, who endeavoured to pretend she did not hear, “How difficult it is to be improper without men?”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

tags: behaviours

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#22

“It is true she liked him most when he wasn't there, but then she usually liked everybody most when they weren't there.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

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#23

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: love, poets, romance

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#24

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

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#25

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: 1908, life, metaphor, violin

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#26

“It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: foretelling, life, planning

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#27

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”
― Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden

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