L.E. > L.E.'s Quotes

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
― Salvador Dalí

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor”
― Dan Abnett, Horus Rising

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I really hate threesomes when one of the participants is dead.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Among the Living

“My waking life probably gave my subconscious an inferiority complex.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Criss Cross

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree