Celeste > Celeste's Quotes

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team