Cynthia Austin > Cynthia's Quotes

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Last night, she’d looked like a million bucks. Tonight, she looked like fifty with change.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“if you want peace, prepare for war”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, Wings of the Wicked

“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. There”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I wanted the good parts of him, and I knew now that it was another reason I wasn’t the one for him.”
― R.J. Lewis, Borden

“God, he had remarkable looks. It was such a shame he was a psycho.”
― R.J. Lewis, Borden

“You thought I was happy? Happy living in a halfway house and having to spend my only four hours of freedom with you? Do you have any idea what it is like to try and survive four hours with you?”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Parable of Pronouns

“Not everyone wants to be a boring, miserable little worm who does nothing but work till he crawls back into the ground and dies. Some of us actually want to live!”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Parable of Pronouns

“From this day on, every mother that breathes will share the fear that you are just about to learn. And on that fear, I will finally feed to satisfaction.”
― Cassondra Windwalker, Parable of Pronouns

“Books can alter one’s whole life. Involve you in a way that sometimes one can’t tell reality from fantasy.”
― Liliana Shelbrook, Lantern in the Mist

“I hated to admit it, but he was one of those guys that got cuter as time went on.”
― S. Briones Lim, Palace Hills

“there was something about a guy who was good with kids that was extremely attractive.”
― S. Briones Lim, Palace Hills

“This isn’t Grease. I’m not some Thunderbird who can only date a Pink Lady. As for the turf wars, this isn’t West Side Story, either. Do you think we settle disputes in song and dance?”
― S. Briones Lim, Palace Hills

“I’ve always liked a cute pair of shoes, even if they tore my feet to shreds.”
― Molly V. Lovell, Mel and the Mob

“Marion found that if she kept calm and looked at the situation objectively, she usually could deal with whatever happened.”
― Virginia Babcock, Bum Lambs and Red Tractors

“Loving someone is a selfless act, and while movies and books give you hope that there is a prince waiting for you around any corner, the truth is most of the time there won't be a prince to save you. Save yourself, and try to save the one you love in the process.”
― T.E. Black, Finding A Way

“He looks like he’s in pain, but I’m going to guess the only pain he’s feeling is the migraine I more than likely gave him.”
― T.E. Black, Finding A Way

“His wasn’t the biggest male disappointment in her life, only the first, nor was it the first betrayal in her life.”
― David W. Thompson, His Father's Blood