Maria > Maria's Quotes

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

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

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin