Goreting > Goreting's Quotes

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

“A good thing about talking to someone who is standing behind you is that you can pretend you don't know they're crying, and not trouble yourself too much with working out why. You can simply concentrate on helping them feel better.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“I guess children believe whatever they want to believe. Perhaps adults do too.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“He repeated the story he liked to tell us. The one with the small boy who was trying to lift a rock in his garden, and the boy’s dad was watching him heave and sweat and struggle, but get nowhere. Eventually the dad asks, ‘Why don’t you use all of your strength?’ And the boy says, ‘I am, Daddy. I am using all of my strength.’ And his dad says, ‘No you’re not. You haven’t asked me for help.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“This is how we piece together our past. We do it like a jigsaw puzzle, where there are missing pieces. But so long as we have enough of the pieces, we can know what belongs in the gaps.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“She’s always going on about how we’re not supposed to let people’s expectations limit our choices.”
― Alex Gino, George

“My point is, it takes a special person to cry over a book. It shows compassion as well as imagination...Don't ever lose that”
― Alex Gino, Melissa

“If my love were an ocean,
there would be no more land.
If my love were a desert,
you would see only sand.
If my love were a star-
late at night, only light.
And if my love could grow wings,
I'd be soaring in flight.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Viver é como escrever sem corrigir.”
― António Lobo Antunes

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“We must go on, because we can't turn back.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier