Abby > Abby's Quotes

“Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over.”
― Brian Moore

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
― Douglas Adams

“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
― Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”
― Garrison Keillor, Dusty And Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys

“Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“Every reader his or her book.
Every book its reader.”
― S.R. Ranganathan

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
― Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen