J. > J.'s Quotes

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

“If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret Atwood

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. ”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“There can be beauty anywhere. Even here. An if it ain't there, you can make it yerself.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

“Did you know, he says, every time you make somethin, any time you make anythin, a little bit of yer spirit goes into it?”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

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