Tricia > Tricia's Quotes

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard

“When Mama got a new baby, Phoebe got a new digger.”
― Tricia Springstubb, Phoebe and Digger

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
― Nuruddin Farah

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“Talk between women friends is always therapy...”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo