Lori > Lori's Quotes

“Don't get caught up in a vortex of 'should haves'. Regret is Fear's big sister. The one that should never be let in the door. Watch Regret from the safety of an interior window, watch her stand there on the stoop beneath the light waiting, patiently, always patiently, to be let in, her long hair prematurely gray, stiff with cold.”
― Andre Dubusi II

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain

“The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“Growing old is not for sissies.”
― Emilie Richards, Sister's Choice

“The life of sensation is the life of greed, it requires more and more. The life of spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.”
― Ann Pearlman

“Ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision.”
― Ian McEwan

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”
― Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
― Sydney J. Harris

“Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness.”
― Yann Martel

“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“A small patch of sunflowers came into view. Dozens of tall stalks topped with heavy golden flower heads swayed in they hot breeze. From a distance they looked like a group of ladies with their heads hung low, as if embarrassed that they'd arrived at a party wearing identical hats.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“In regard to waiting for the right time to do something: "The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time.”
― Blake Mycoskie

“There is no explaining why you love the people who belonged to you. No explaining why you couldn't be objective about them, or indifferent to their disapproval. They are woven into your soul with millions of threads, and cutting them out would make you bleed...”
― Marjorie Dorner, Seasons of Sun and Rain

“Death is but a pause that punctuates the seasons of our life, nothing more.”
― Christopher Bache

“Mary leaned back, exhaled, and watched her smoke rise. 'What sort of man do you want anyway?'
"Tall. Funny. Never came top of his class or pulled the wings off bees."
"Yes, but I mean really? When all of this is over, and assuming we win -" ...
Hilda snorted. "(I) just want a tall man and a stiff drink. You could even swap the adjectives.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.”
― Barbara Cooney

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.”
― Pope Francis

“You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me. We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person we will lose. Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not a tragedy. But after everything, and even when the skies turn scarlet and threatening, I still believe that if we are lucky enough to be alive, we must give thanks for the miracle of every moment of every day, no matter how flawed.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.”
― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa

“a scream so angry, so long, and so high-pitched that the wavelengths were converted into light and she glowed with the hellfire of a thousand suns...”
― Derek B. Miller, The Girl in Green

“Ambitions have planning and thought behind them. Needs are just instincts we feed. And they're always hungry. Needs make us into buckets with holes in them.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“If you are trapped in mundanity, it’s impossible not to latch your poor soul to something, or someone, that makes you realize your vulnerable pumping heart will only beat a certain number of times.”
― Rheea Mukherjee, The Body Myth

“Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.”
― Scott Stratten, UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.

“Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“He maintains his limitless drive without caffeine, his equilibrium without alcohol, his sanity without substances.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted