Beth > Beth's Quotes

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

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

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
― Katherine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring