Mandy > Mandy's Quotes

“We understand what we want to understand.”
― Susan Meissner, The Shape of Mercy

“I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Italian

“But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Italian

“I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want too much, and that he will not mind the sun that beats down and down.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

“He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

“I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Invisible Reality

“What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked.
'Sometimes twice,...”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“...How did this happen? It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know I'm drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive?”
― Ray Bradbury

“That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“Some walks you have to take alone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

“Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“It has always been my belief that a pet owner has a special responsibility to do everything that can be done to make the pet's life as fulfilling and peaceful as possible.”
― Larry Levin, Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“... and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium