Bella > Bella's Quotes

“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
― Dorothy Parker

“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

[Women Know Everything!]”
― Dorothy Parker

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

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

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech

“There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.”
― Erin Forbes, The Elementals

“..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“When people fall in love, they are apt to go a little mad.”
― Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet

“Who’s to say that our decisions are right or wrong without the benefit of hindsight?”
― Jennifer Paynter, The Forgotten Sister: Mary Bennet's Pride and Prejudice

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary.”
― Erin Forbes, The Elementals

“Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn't, people wouldn't work so hard to silence you.
Remember that.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution: Essays

“Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time—that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“People change after a while, and they're no longer who you once knew”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End