Kerry Allen > Kerry's Quotes

“Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman