Harper Miller > Harper's Quotes

“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
― Toni Morrison

“Kink crowds are the same the world over. The good ones are already taken, the hot ones only talk to each other, and everyone else is desperate.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
― Robert Crais

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde