Aaron > Aaron's Quotes

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“Nobody ought to write books before they’re thirty. I hate precocity.”
― Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Then we are on the side of curiosity and evenhandedness. Once we know what's really going on, then we choose.'
'That's a very murky position,' objected Felix.
'So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.”
― Gail Carriger, Waistcoats & Weaponry

“A ball, at last!” Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott sank back into her chair in delight.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“Like a proper gentleman, the good captain never made mention of the undergarment murder.”
― Gail Carriger, Curtsies & Conspiracies

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three