Amy > Amy's Quotes

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
― Cassandra Clare

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Even if the rebel forces could somehow overthrow the Capitol, you can be sure President Snow’s last act would be to cut Peeta’s throat. No. I will never get him back. So then dead is best.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Who is he when he isn't Dauntless, isn't an instructor, isn't Four, isn't anything in particular?

Whoever he is, I like him. It's easier to admit that to myself now, in the dark, after all that just happened. He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger