Mikky > Mikky's Quotes

“The quality of the content is not determined by the section it sits in in the bookstore.”
― Christine Riccio

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.”
― Lionel Fisher, Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

“The grass is never greener on the other side. You can only hope that with enough hard work, time, and luck that yours will become whatever shade the spray paint bottle said it would.”
― Lauren Burd

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.”
― Jim Benton

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole

“Girl, bite. Girl, devour. Girl, don't forgive.
Girl, stay angry. Girl, be selfish.
Girl, walk away from him when he raises his hand.
There is no place that can handle you,
but you must go anyway, to the hills, the mountains, the cities.
They'll call you monster, and they'll be so right.
Girl, show them.
Girl, run your hands along the wound and seal it with your heat.
Cauterize.
They thought they could get to you.
They thought they could take you and make you small.
There may be bruises, but you are no little thing.
Girl, show them your claws.
Show them your wings.
Rise.
Show them your army of injuries who have come to fight.
Show them the others like you.
Take over the city. Own the mountains.
Bite the hand and the one behind their back with all the good stuff.
Girl, show your teeth.
Never forget what you can do with them.”
― Caitlyn Siehl

“There is beauty in knowing who you are, and in embracing that in spite of the potential consequences”
― Harper L. Woods, What Lies Beyond the Veil