Cara > Cara's Quotes

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“YOU WILL GO TO THE PAPER TOWNS
AND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”
― Francis Bacon