Bee > Bee's Quotes

“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.”
― Amy Bloom, Come to Me

“When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Joy School

“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli

“...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, House of Thieves

“In fact, in what’s known as “rosy prospection,” anticipation of happiness is sometimes greater than the happiness actually experienced.”
― Gretchen Rubin

“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.” In other words, I can give something up altogether, but I can’t indulge occasionally.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

“The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.”
― Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir

“Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.”
― Rob Sheffield, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

“The mind gives up a lot sooner than the body, making it tough to know if you’re really in trouble or if you’re just making excuses, calling it quits before you’ve reached your full potential.”
― Kara Richardson Whitely, Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds

“we’ve visited a lot, but being a visitor is very different from living in Hawaii, especially when you’re going to high school.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, Juniors

“To be able to thrive when most of Wisconsin isn’t even up requires much more than the swipe of a finger to select an alarm.”
― Dimity McDowell, Tales from Another Mother Runner: Triumphs, Trials, Tips, and Tricks from the Road

“And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board,”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or most ridiculous, trite little fears?”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret