B > B's Quotes

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

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

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

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.”
― Aleatha Romig, Consequences

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

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

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
― Robert Crais

“Sometimes love isn’t forever. Sometimes it’s just moments in your life that teach you. If it’s the forever after kind of love, it’ll find you again. If it isn’t, don’t let a broken heart break you. Let it make you love harder. Love is a mistake worth making.”
― R.K. Ryals, Hawthorne & Heathcliff

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

“Always watch a man to determine his character. His words will surely try to lead you to one conclusion, but his actions will lead you to the truth”
― Tara Brown, Vengeance