Astoria (Jax) > Astoria (Jax)'s Quotes

“You can't tell. That's something I'm learning here in N.Y.C: you have no fucking idea what people are really like. They're not even two-faced--they're, like, multiple personalities.”
― Jennifer Egan

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Here was the bottom line: if we human beings are information processing machines, reading X's and O's and translating that information into what people oh so breathlessly call "experience," and if I had access to all that same information via cable TV and any number of magazines that I browsed through at Hudson News for four- and five- hour stretches on my free days (my record was eight hours, including the half hour I spent manning the register during the lunch break of one of the younger employees, who though I worked there)- if I had not only the information but the artisty to shape that information using the computer inside my brain (real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you, and I didn't want to be found), then, technically speaking, was I not having all of the same experiences those other people were having?”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Behind the desk was nothing but view-the whole city flung out in front of us the way street vendors fling out their towels packed with cheap, glittery watches and belts. That's how New York looked: like gorgeous, easy thing to have, even for me.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

“You are like nobody since I love you.”
― pablo neruda

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Rock star. The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it's impossible to find a real person behind them. But I am a rock star. I have the bank account of a rock star and the platinum records of a rock star and the girlfriend of a rock star. But I fucking hate that term, and hearing Mia pin it on me ups the level of my loathing to a new stratosphere.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went