Donna McCaul Thibodeau > Donna's Quotes

“I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
― Diana Nyad

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

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

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
― Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry