Amanda Viana > Amanda's Quotes

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”
― Stephen King

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander