Aquilegia > Aquilegia's Quotes

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Never before in his life had he known what happiness was. He knew at most some very rare states of numbed contentment. But now he was quivering with happiness and could not sleep for pure bliss. It was as if he had been born a second time; no, not a second time, the first time, for until now he had merely existed like an animal with a most nebulous self-awareness. but after today, he felt as if he finally knew who he really was: nothing less than a genius... He had found the compass for his future life. And like all gifted abominations, for whom some external event makes straight the way down into the chaotic vortex of their souls, Grenouille never again departed from what he believed was the direction fate had pointed him... He must become a creator of scents... the greatest perfumer of all time.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Facts! Stick to the facts! That gets rid of 99 per cent of everything anyone’s ever said or written, which cuts your homework down to a nice manageable size, doesn’t it? Sniff out the truth!”
― Michel Faber, D: A Tale of Two Worlds

“The good that we do sinks into history like rainfall into the earth. The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.”
― Michel Faber, D

“What can we do now? How many words are left with Ds in it? Not many, I bet. Probably al the best ones have already been ruined.' ..
.. 'And if I ever find my dad, what will he be? Just a sound. A sound without any meaning.'
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― Michel Faber

“De oude en de jonge vrouw zochten elke dag
naar een punt tussen te weinig en te veel.”
― Marieke De Maré

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening

“You know the days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire