Reelika Raimet > Reelika's Quotes

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

“..you don't always know the true worth of a women's love until it becomes a memory.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Sometimes I liked him for his smile. Sometimes I liked him because he didn’t smile. Sometimes I got an erection because of the way he brushed his hair away from his face. It didn’t matter to my brain that these were odd reasons to care for someone. My brain, my body, my everything wanted to be Jeremey’s boyfriend.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Carry the Ocean

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Him: Confession: I deleted all the 1 Direction from your iPod when u were in the can.
You’re welcome.
Me: WHAT?? I’m going to kiss u!
Him: With tongue?
It takes me a second to realize what happened, at which point I’m completely mortified.
Me: Kill u! I meant KILL. u. Damn autocorrect.
Him: Surrrrrre. Let’s blame it on autocorrect.
Me: Shut it.
Him: I think someone wants to kiss me…”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
― Arthur Miller

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“He laughed once. "Unbelievable. The one girl I want, and she doesn't want me.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“I feel like any second you're going to figure out what a piece of shit I am and leave me.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting