Tracy Ewens > Tracy's Quotes

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
― Robert Fulghum

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
― Ingrid Bergman

“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”
― Socrates

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”
― Nora Roberts

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts

“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you’d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you’re suspended, knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House