Kat Williams > Kat's Quotes

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.”
― Victoria Hanley, The Seer and the Sword

“It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.”
― Kristen Britain, Blackveil

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Color is like sex. It's mysterious. It's unknowable. It never looks the same twice. No two people see the same thing. No two people feel the same thing. I once went to china on a cruise ship. Eight hundred of us got off the ship wearing white, because it feels festive and shippy and says "I'm on a cruise." In China white is the color of mourning. We looked insane.”
― Stephen Drucker

“There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

“Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“People don't help much.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Wonderful luck that was, Mrs. Oliver thought to herself.”
― Agatha Christie, Elephants Can Remember

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
― Frida Kahlo

“They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Traté de ahogar mis penas... pero las condenadas aprendieron a nadar.”
― Frida Kahlo

“If Gretchen had been feeling charitable she would have let me die...I wanted to die. I was ready to die. If she had put a scalpel in my hand, I would have stabbed myself in the neck and happily bled to death right there in her basement. She didn't do me any favours by not killing me. Gretchen enjoys people's pain. And she just found a way to prolong my pain and her pleasure. Believe me, it was the cruellest thing she could have done to me. If she could have thought of something crueller she would have done it. Gretchen doesn't show people mercy.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.”
― Blake Crouch, The Last Town