Patricia Willers > Patricia's Quotes

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

“A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.”
― Karen Levy, My Father's Gardens

“What you do in your dreams is never your choice.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.”
― Mary Berry

“Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.”
― Gloria Steinem

“I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply... off.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“She did, she really told her. She was pretty scary, actually,"

"The best women always are, love; you don't get to my age without realizing that.”
― Gil McNeil, Needles and Pearls

“If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.”
― Delia Ephron, Frannie in Pieces

“What exactly does a friend do?”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all.

The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.

This is what happens.

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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else.”
― Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays