Quotes - Cassandra De rango (Genk, Belgium) Showing 211-240 of 392

#213

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

2027 likes

#214

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

1191 likes

#215

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

2494 likes

#216

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

tags: books, reading

1840 likes

#217

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

tags: mysterious

2066 likes

#218

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

tags: reading

960 likes

#219

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
― Juan Rulfo

tags: memory-loss, mortality

997 likes

#220

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

tags: books, reading

1998 likes

#221

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe

1449 likes

#222

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

4372 likes

#223

“Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.”
― Ken Jennings

476 likes

#224

“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
― Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare

tags: writing

731 likes

#225

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

1121 likes

#226

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

1041 likes

#227

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”
― John Masefield

1336 likes

#228

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

1884 likes

#229

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

1786 likes

#230

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

tags: love

1672 likes

#231

“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
― Christian Bauman

tags: learn, read, reading

1881 likes

#232

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

4615 likes

#233

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
― Robert Crais

663 likes

#234

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

1937 likes

#235

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

tags: humor

910 likes

#236

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
― Natsuki Takaya

tags: fruits-basket, haru, try

881 likes

#237

“If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.”
― Aya Ling , The Ugly Stepsister

tags: aya-ling, beauty-and-the-beast, belle, disney, library, library-love, marriage, marriage-proposal-tips

81 likes

#238

“Fate is unkind when your dreams only exist within the confines of a classic Disney rhyme.”
― j.d. tulloch, Neutral Receding Lines

tags: disney, poetry

3 likes

#239

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
― Walt Disney

tags: curiosity, disney, doors-in-life, moving-forward

25 likes

#240

“The thing about fairy tales is that the princess finds her prince, but there's generally a price to pay. A compromise of some kind is required for happily ever after. The woman in the fairy tale is generally the one who pays the price, which is such a rotten deal. This seems to be the nature of sacrifice in most matters.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

tags: disney, fairy-tales

8 likes

#241