Quotes - Abby Fick (Wernersville, PA) Showing 1-30 of 94

#1

“..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”
― Harlan Coben

tags: love, memorable

566 likes

#2

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

1940 likes

#3

“Man plans. God laughs.”
― Harlan Coben

70 likes

#4

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

tags: bravery, fear, perseverence, strength

1404 likes

#5

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4321 likes

#6

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

5876 likes

#7

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12775 likes

#8

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

3386 likes

#9

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

tags: history

3025 likes

#10

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

901 likes

#11

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, feminist, reading

4155 likes

#12

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7419 likes

#13

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing

6815 likes

#14

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

1070 likes

#15

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

4418 likes

#16

“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

tags: reading

1864 likes

#17

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

tags: chocolate, strength

2169 likes

#18

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: books, reading

2134 likes

#19

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

4225 likes

#20

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: indulgence, virtue

1902 likes

#21

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

1366 likes

#22

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

tags: books, reading

2191 likes

#23

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

4012 likes

#24

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8244 likes

#25

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

tags: optimism, pessimism

2212 likes

#26