Nina > Nina's Quotes

“There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.”
― Robert Service

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. ”
― Mary Oliver

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
― Coco Chanel

“Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart's secret places.
Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating.
Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.”
― Hannah Senesh

“The heart is heaviest when it’s empty
and lightest when it’s full”
― Helen Scott Taylor, A Clockwork Fairytale

“dogs and angels are not
very far apart”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott, Marmion

“We are the scientists, trying to make sense of the stars inside us.”
― Christopher Poindexter

“Despite the Cooper/Hofstadter papers on the subject,”
― Jodi Taylor, The Chronicles of St Mary's Boxset Vol 1

“Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn