Emily > Emily's Quotes

“But I know you. You will be alright.”
― Sydney Smith, Small in the City

“Watch TV or something." That's what the note says.
So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.”
― Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I threw it away because it meant too much to me. I hope you understand”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Nothing sounds better tonight than living my small life well.”
― Emily Henry, A Million Junes

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”
― Steve Martin

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.”
― Amy Poehler

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn