K.M. > K.M.'s Quotes

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.”
― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship, was that one had to explain nothing”
― Katherine Mansfield

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
― Horace Mann

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.”
― Héloïse, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

“Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray wall-to-wall carpeting. It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn’t worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling. It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible. Hence it assailed not only his ears but his eyes; as he stood by the inert TV set he experienced the silence as visible and, in its own way, alive. Alive! He had often felt its austere approach before; when it came it burst in without subtlety, evidently unable to wait. The silence of the world could not rein back its greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.”
― Wodehouse

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“She'll tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to stop worrying.

'What if I change?' she asked the fortune teller, all those years ago, sure that knowledge could save her from bad luck and tragedy. 'Most people don't,' the woman said.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“Most adults claim not to believe in magic, but Klara knows better. Why else would anyone play at permanence - fall in love, have children, buy a house - in the face of all evidence there's no such thing? The trick is not to convert them. The trick is to get them to admit it.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory—to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“The shelves covered all four walls of the square room, broken in three places by tall, narrow windows with stained-glass inserts above and upholstered seats below, liberally adorned with loose cushions – the sort of window seats that every book lover dreams of, visualises, yearns for… I stepped forward into the room, wonder-struck, inhaling the rich smell of oiled leather bindings and ancient paper and polished wood.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Mariana

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“That’s all magic is, really: the space between what you have and what you need.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“You don't really know how fragile and fleeting your own voice is, until you watch a rich man take it away as easily as signing a bank loan.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“The night was uncommon and crowded with possibility.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

“Nights like this were meant to be shared, remembered, and talked about for years. Skies like this were meant to be kissed under.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Another day, another staff meeting. Who would have thought saving the world could be so boring?”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“History – the new sex.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another