Alexis Woods > Alexis's Quotes

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

“Darren played with the ice cream before raising a spoonful to his mouth. I watched him lick it before he wrapped his lips around the spoon, closing his eyelids and savoring the flavor on his tongue. He slowly withdrew the spoon from his mouth and opened his eyes. He smiled coyly at my rapt attention. I just wanted to reach across the table, grab a fistful of his hair and lick the ice cream right out of his mouth.”
― Alexis Woods, Opening Day

“I stopped right in front of him, personal space be damned, and asked, “Can we do this again?”
He flashed me his gorgeous smile, dimples and all. “Yeah... I’d like that.” I smiled right back.
I turned and pulled open the door, holding it for him. We stepped outside, stopping on the sidewalk. I pulled out my cell and handed it to him. Darren took it, punched in his number and when his cell rang, he pulled his phone out. “Now I’ve got your number, too,” he said. “You’ll have to save mine to your contacts.” He handed my phone back, and I gave him one of the bags.
“Will do. Can I call you tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow’s Opening Day,” Darren said. “Wanna catch the game together?”
I think my heart skipped a beat. “Yeah… I’d like that.”
― Alexis Woods, Opening Day

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”
― Ko Un

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

“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

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“If I went back in time and killed myself, would it be murder or suicide????”
― Eric

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian

“Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. ”
― Lynn Abbey

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
― Lu Xun

“When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.”
― Marie Antoinette

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“We have a head, Patrick,” I yelled. “The baby has a head.”
― Harper B. Cole, Make Mine a Wolf