Stephanie R. > Stephanie's Quotes

“The difference between a wise person and a foolish person is that the wise one does not repeat his mistakes,”
― Helene Tursten, The Golden Calf

“To show my revulsion, I jumped on the tea table several times and pretended it was an accident when I knocked the phone off the hook so that there couldn’t be any incoming calls.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion

“Rancid was poor. He didn't seem to know that he was poor, however, and I never had the heart to tell him, because he was the happiest person I'd ever met. If he had known he was poor, of course, then he would have been sad and miserable all the time. As it was, Rancid was able to live out his whole life in blissful ignorance of the fact that he was poor.”
― Patrick F. McManus, They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?

“Oh, Martin, is that it? I seem too nice and too harmless, so I must be hiding some sinister secret, like we're nothing but two-dimensional characters in some bad novel?”
― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard