Mary > Mary's Quotes

“Sometimes the people you wanted as part of your story are only meant to be a chapter.”
― unknown author

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.”
― Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Guardian

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

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

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

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“It was easy to root for the winners. No, he liked the punch-drunk ones, half walking at mile twenty-three, tongues flapping like Labradors. Tumbling across the finish line by hook or by crook, feet pounded to bloody meat in their Nikes. The laggards and limpers who weren’t running the course but running deep into their character—down into the cave to return to the light with what they found. By the time they got to Columbus Circle, the TV crews have split, the cone cups of water and Gatorade litter the course like daisies in a pasture, and the silver space blankets twist in the wind. Maybe they had someone waiting for them and maybe they didn’t. Who wouldn’t celebrate that?”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“If you spend your entire life trying to cheat death, there's no time left over to embrace life.”
― Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“When I held my new puppy in my arms, I broke down in tears. Because I had fallen in love. Not somewhat in love. Not partly in love. Not in a limited amount. I fell fully in love with a creature I had known for all of nine hours.”
― Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“She'd be okay, he told himself, and he needed to be somewhere else. Somewhere so completely else that the grief wouldn't find him. Ignoring the fact that grief is not a stalker but a stowaway, always there and up for any journey.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright