Fainne Firmin > Fainne's Quotes

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“No one's normal. It's all just varying degrees of being weird." - Nerida”
― Fainne J. Firmin

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey