mumsontop > mumsontop's Quotes

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much!

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak