Arlene Lagos > Arlene's Quotes

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“The way you wear your hat,
The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
― Ira Gershwin

“The ghost of sleep and grief haunted her eyes." -”
― Krista Liotti Linda Rawlins

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Push to achieve your dreams. Don't let anyone push you out of dreamland.”
― Christy Birmingham

“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it." - Alice Paul”
― Alice Paul, Conversations with Alice Paul: woman suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment : oral history transcript / and related material, 1972-1976