grace > grace's Quotes

“There is a beauty to be seen in raw darkness.”
― Alicia Kii

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home...”
― S.E. Hinton

“Ponyboy, listen, don't get tough. You're not like the rest of us and don't try to be..."
What was the matter with Two-Bit? I knew as well as he did that if you got tough you didn't get hurt. Get smart and nothing can touch you...
"What in the world are you doing?" Two-Bit's voice broke into my thoughts.
I looked up at him. "Picking up the glass."
He stared at me for a second, then grinned. "You little sonofagun," he said in a relieved voice. I didn't know what he was talking about, so I just went on picking up the glass from the bottle end and put it in a trash can. I didn't want anyone to get a flat tire.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Optima dies...prima fugit
(The best days are the first to flee)”
― Virgil

“I had expected the well to be full for some reason.
Not that it had ever been before.
I kept looking for signs of water in the dark insides.
I heard my bucket clank as it hit
Against the walls that held nothing.
I look at the bucket that came up empty
And made a decision that changed my life.
I will keep my bucket and find another well.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here