Sandy (WI girl at heart) > Sandy's Quotes

“With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character. ”
― Nicholas A. Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books

“Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly overweight and depressed.”
― Dan Wilbur, How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life

“If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!”
― Robin Cook, Crisis

“Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“To read without joy is stupid.”
― John Williams

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

“If you believe in nothing, if life can have no real objective meaning and all is socially constructed; then pleasure is absolutely necessary as an analgesic, and distraction is the primary philosophical argument. The politically correct are nihilists, that is reality-deniers, and when there is no reality then the only positive is pleasure.”
― Bruce G. Charlton, Thought Prison

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“When he greeted them on Day 16, he said, “Thanks so much, such great food for us.” This time he gave a false, fake laugh. Phony. I thought of my mother . Her disdain for phonies was even greater than her disdain for the lazy.”
― Shannon Kirk, Method 15/33

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun