Hayley Morton > Hayley's Quotes

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who's wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable? I think that it is perfectly normal to talk to oneself occasionally. It's not as though I'm expecting a reply. I'm fully aware that Polly is a houseplant.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”
― Sigmund Freud, Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Hasta la persona más pequeña puede cambiar el curso del futuro.”
― Galadriel

“The Evening Primrose


Like a flower blooming
From an Evening Primrose,
They, too, shall die
In great sorrow.
For they only were loved
When they bloomed;
Yet every Gardener knows
You must love the plant
From seed to wilt.”
― D.M. Shiro, The Grate

“Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. ”
― Spider Robinson

“Change as a Choice, Instead of a Reaction”
― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss