C. > C.'s Quotes

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“My shoulders shook, I was laughing so hard. “I would never tell.” “Women always talk.” He led me up a section of stairs, my legs wobbling with each step. “Especially to one another. There is no secret sacred enough to your kind to silence your tongue when you gather. Especially when there is wine.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood