Belle > Belle's Quotes

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

“But now we know there has been no one great disaster—only the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous

“She wasn’t sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous

“For all the robots who question their programming.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous

“I am sorry you have to live in the time of terraforming, and not in the spring that follows.”
― Annalee Newitz

“Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.”
― Richard Laymon, The Stake

“Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to be the same as it was when you were still with her.. or him”
― Richard Laymon, Night in the Lonesome October