Kevin > Kevin's Quotes

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”
― Jim Henson

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Nice one, Zoey. You did everything short of farting in there. Maybe if you see him again, you can tell him you have a yeast infection.”
― R.L. Naquin, Monster in My Closet

“As exhausted as I was, it took time for me to settle in. The curtains in my room let in too much light, the humming of bugs and the clanging of my wind chime collection were too loud. I flipped my pillow over twice. The sheet was too heavy. I was too cold without it. I got up and shut the window. The room became stuffy.
I gave up and decided to watch some television.”
― R.L. Naquin, Monster in My Closet

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“You don’t say ‘gams’ anymore?” She scowled. “It’s a good word. Humans are always tossing out the good words and making up stupid ones like ‘gnarly.’ How’s a dame supposed to keep track?”
― R.L. Naquin, Fairies in My Fireplace

“...he felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken.”
― Mur Lafferty, Playing for Keeps

“I was a strong believer in the Pretty Woman philosophy on fairy tales: When the handsome prince rescues the princess, she rescues him right back.”
― R.L. Naquin, Golem in My Glovebox

“Never underestimate the power of a well-timed, quality piece of chocolate.”
― R.L. Naquin, Unamused Muse

“Nobody quits the book club. Once you’re in the club, you’re in it forever.”
― R.L. Naquin, Unamused Muse

“I often heard people advise breathing through the mouth to avoid a stench, but I was of the well-considered opinion if I didn’t want it in my nostrils, I sure as hell didn’t want it in my mouth.”
― R.L. Naquin, Monster in My Closet

“As a little girl, I'd have given up my Barbie Dreamhouse to have a miniature purple dragon - as an adult, I didn't find it nearly as exciting.”
― R.L. Naquin, Phoenix in My Fortune

“Of all the emotions people gave me, sadness was probably the hardest one to take. Fear was temporary, but sadness could last a lifetime.”
― R.L. Naquin, Golem in My Glovebox

“As frightening as he looked, he was probably something cuddly or harmless, like a werebunny or a flying spaghetti monster. Things in my world never seemed to turn out as they appeared.”
― R.L. Naquin, Fairies in My Fireplace

“To be totally fair, I was impressed. It takes a lot of effort to have taste that bad.”
― R.L. Naquin, Fairies in My Fireplace

“Most dreams are just our brains taking out the garbage at night anyway.”
― R.L. Naquin, Fairies in My Fireplace

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” I started the car and pulled away.”
― R.L. Naquin, Golem in My Glovebox

“Fighting in front of potential new clients is considered bad form in the wedding-planning industry. Or, I imagine, the delicious fruit-smoothie industry. Really, any industry. Bad form.”
― R.L. Naquin, Golem in My Glovebox

“Boys were so dumb.”
― R.L. Naquin, Demons in My Driveway

“My ballroom is full of Siamese porcupines and Portobello mushrooms. Farmland isn’t cheap.”
― R.L. Naquin, Demons in My Driveway

“Everyone had a story about what made them.”
― R.L. Naquin, Demons in My Driveway

“I like pie. I like it very much. But I draw the line on mucus of any kind.”
― R.L. Naquin, Demons in My Driveway

“I did not have sex with a mongoose.”
― R.L. Naquin, Unamused Muse

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”
― Timothy Leary

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist