Debbie > Debbie's Quotes

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
― O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin