Sarah Dieng > Sarah's Quotes

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Hit List

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
― Jane Austen

“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
― Jane Austen