Maxwell Smart > Maxwell's Quotes

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? ”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“I love you," Matt said.
I love you, too," Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it."
If I have a soul, I'll go with you," promised Matt.”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

“Slow people are just paying close attention.”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

“Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

“Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

“he was one of us.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“If he wanted the job, he was going to have to work with the one woman who could bring him to his knees and drive him off a cliff at the same time—”
― Heidi McLaughlin, After All

“I sit there rigid, ready for anything, ready to put on whatever face I need to lessen the pain for both of us.”
― Chloe Taylor