Katy > Katy's Quotes

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“I don’t believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“When there is no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“There's a difference in beliefs and blind worship. One builds a sense of self, and the other strips it away.”
― Emily McIntire, Scarred

“But we’re all a little twisted, and there’s no such thing as good and evil. There are only perspectives, and perceptions change depending on the angle.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.”
― Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“To the blessed darkness from which we are born, and to which we return.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

“Love is many things none of them logical.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Passion is...it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six