Megan > Megan's Quotes

“I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“Which will you take, the high road or the low road?"

"Which one is longer?"

"They're both short.”
― Yasutaka Tsutsui, Hell

“In the republic of poetry,
the guard at the airport
will not allow you to leave the country
until you declaim a poem for her
and she says Ah! Beautiful.”
― Martin Espada, The Republic of Poetry

“People say the magic has gone out of the moon now that someone’s stood on it. I don’t think so. It would take more than a man’s foot to steal the moon.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

“annie died the other day

never was there such a lay--
whom,among her dollies,dad
first("don't tell your mother")had”
― E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

“a kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.”
― Leonard Cohen

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin