Willie > Willie's Quotes

“Light up the darkness.”
― Bob Marley

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
― Aphra Behn

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“The only relief to be had was the blood… or service.”
― Angela White, Changeling Winds

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“This is how David felt after Goliath was on his back like a bitch.”
― Brian Krans, A Constant Suicide

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“It’s all black and white to you, isn’t it?” “Gray is but another word for light black. Gray is never white. Only white is white. There are no shades of it.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“Didn't anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune?”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
― Ayn Rand

“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“If love is trust and need and always feeling better when I'm with you...I love you.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Shame

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights